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August 2025: Teaching Resources and Tools

Deposit Title	Author
Crafting Strategic Course Descriptions: A Faculty Development Toolkit	Miranda Rodak and Gabrielle Stecher
Oops Token Example	Rebecca Davis
Quick Take: Backward Course Design, Iterative Course Design	Miranda (Yaggi) Rodak
Interactive Protocols for Intercultural Language Teaching	Amanda Lanier
SoTL and Rubrics: Transforming Feedback to the Written Word	Brooke Carlson
Creating a Strong Thesis Statement	Carol DeGrasse
Paragraph Mapping: A Strategy for Teaching Close Reading & Analysis Skills	Gabrielle Stecher

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Archive of Past Featured Deposits

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July 2025: Disability Pride Month

Deposit Title	Author
Relational Inequality and the Structures that Disadvantage	Michelle Maroto and David Pettinicchio
Atypical Morphology and the Normative Limits of Ability and Function	Jonathan Paul Mitchell
Intro to Literary Study: Reading Bodies & Disability Syllabus	Hayley Stefan
Cerebral Palsy in Ancient Egypt	Alexandra Morris
Embodied Difference: Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman	Richard H. Godden and Asa Simon Mittman
Universal Design and the Problem of “Post-Disability” Ideology	Aimi Hamraie
Bodyminds Like Ours: An Autoethnographic Analysis of Graduate School, Disability, and the Politics of Disclosure	Angela M. Carter, R. Tina Catania, Sam Schmitt and Amanda Swenson
The Disabled Hero: Being and Ethics in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings	Todd A. Comer
Static Palace	Leora Fridman

June 2025: Pride Month

Deposit Title	Author
Bursting Into The Building	Freyja T. Catton
Performativity and Trans Literature	Alexa Alice Joubin
Feeling Her Way: Audre Lorde and the Power of Touch	Sarah E. Chinn
A Transgender Gaze at Genesis 38	Samuel Ross
Resisting Digital Archive Fever: A Critical Investigation Into the Management of QTIPOC Cultural Heritage in the Digital Environment	Melissa Rakshana Steiner
Marriage Equality and Inclusive Parenthood: A New Era of Human Rights	S. Kopperundevi
Worlding Sexualities under Apartheid: From Gay Liberation to a Queer Afropolitanism	Kanika Batra

May 2025: National Mental Health Awareness Month

Deposit Title	Author
Finding Hope in the Age of Anxiety: Recognise it, Acknowledge it and Take Your Power Back	Sevket Akyildiz
Graphic Medicine’ as a Mental Health Information Resource: Insights from Comics Producers	Anthony Farthing and Ernesto Priego
An Introduction to Coping With Stress	Sevket Akyildiz
Development of a Multidimensional Assessment on Depression for Parents	Michelle Abella-Cellona
Teachers’ Job Satisfaction, Degree of Burnout, and Stress Preventative Coping Strategy: Basis for Development of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (Mhpss) Activities	Sammy Boy B. Guzman
The Differing Impacts of Discrimination, Victimization, and Rejection on POC and White Transgender and Non-Binary Individuals	Alex Guo, Kye Campbell-Fox and Jae Puckett
The Role of Teachers in Student Mental Health: Contributing Factors to Suicidal Ideation	Harlen Matteson
A Narrative Research on the Role of Parent- child Relationship among College Students’ Mental Health Help- seeking Behavior	Nicole L. Lozano, Elyssa Maria Fatima G. Virrey and Teresita T. Rungduin

April 2025: Earth Day/Environmental Studies

Deposit Title	Author
Restor(y)ing the Ground: Digital Environmental Media Studies	Amanda Starling Gould
O eficiente motor do status quo	Raphael Grazziano
Topics in Environmental Humanities: Exploring Climate Solutions	Michelle Bastian
Satire, Humor, and Environmental Crises	Massih Zekavat and Tabea Scheel
Estimating for Sustainable Construction: Challenges and Methodologies for Quantifying Green Building Practices	Shawn Graham
Role of International Institutions in Combatting Environmental Pollution	Sruti Devan K and Monika Gupta
Mapping the field of religious environmental politics	Jeremy Kidwell
CSUS 310- History of Environmental Thought & Sustainability	Bethany Laursen

March 2025: Deposits made by the KC team

Deposit Title	Author
10 Tips for Creating and Offering Online Courses	Scott Schopieray
Mastodon 101 – a short, simple guide to getting started in the Fediverse	Bonnie Russell
What we learned about managing a Mastodon server in the first year of hcommons.social	Dimitris Tzouris
Obsolescence and Innovation in the Age of the Digital	Kathleen Fitzpatrick
The Digital Humanities and Literary Studies	Martin Eve
A Book Review for Vanessa Vilches Norat’s “Archivo Rural”	Franki Webb
Chattering Openly: Talking about Open Access in an Increasingly Fragmented Social Media Landscape	Larissa Babak

February 2025: Video Games

Deposit Title	Author
Locating Cultures in Video Games and Interactive Fiction	Iskandar Zulkarnain
‘Look At Me, Boy!’: Carnivalesque, Masks, and Queer Performativity in BioShock	Cody Mejeur
Video Games as Feminist Pedagogy	Samantha Allen
Digging Through Dragon Age	Franki Webb
An Approach to the Ethics of Archaeogaming	Shawn Graham
The Game Changers: Decolonizing Video Games	Franki Webb
Good literature can come in digital forms – just look to the world of video games	James O’Sullivan

January 2025: Creative Writing and Other Works

Deposit Title	Author
Life 38	Seo-Young Chu
Kat & Jane	Shaun Huston
Minimal Anthology	Jerónimo Pizarro
Novel Dialogue 1.0: Introducing a New Podcast	Aarthi Vadde and John Plotz
Por qué los lobos aullan	Gabriel M. Soto Villegas
A Brand New Beggar	A.L. Nielsen
Recall this Book 4: A Conversation with Madeline Miller about “Circe”	Elizabeth Ferry John Plotz
Josephine the Songstress	Phillip Lundberg

December 2024: First Submissions to Works

Deposit Title	Author
Public Places, Intimate Spaces: The Modern Flâneuse in Rhys, Barnes, and Loos	Johanna M. Wagner
The GDPR and DMA Mitigating Vulnerabilities to Weaponized Interdependence in the EU	James Tamim
The Elephant in the Hospital	Anisa Cole
Donner sans retour, un geste paradoxal	Bernard Troude
Situation Report Rohingya Refugee Crisis (29 November 2018)	The Inter-Sector Coordination Group (ISCG)
Sold like a damn’d slave: Dissonance between conceptualization and conditions of bound labor in the British-American colonies	Justin White
Impact of Home Bias and Diversification of Stocks among Indian Retail Investors: A Case Study of Hyderabad Karnataka Region	Manjunath Awalakki
Transforming Healthcare Data Management with NoSQL: A New Era of Scalability and Efficiency	Santosh Kumar Singu

November 2024: Native American Heritage

Deposit Title	Author
Dreaming Our Futures: Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Artists and Knowledge Keeper	Maria Ketcham
Tribal Membership and Indian Nationhood	Matthew L.M. Fletcher
GIBAGADINAMAAGOOM: An Ojibwe Digital Archive	Larry P. Aitken, Barbara McDonald and Timothy B. Powell
“But It’s Honoring! It’s Tradition!”: The Persistence of Racialized Indian Mascots in Sports	Dana M. Williams
Virtual Indian Removal	Sara Humphreys
Tribal Disruption and Indian Claims	Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Kathryn E. Fort and Nicholas J. Reo
Applications and Innovations in Typeface Design for North American Indigenous Languages	Julia Schillo and Mark Turin

October 2024: Monsters

Deposit Title	Author
Classic Readings on Monsters and the Monstrous Primary Sources on Monsters	Asa Simon Mittman and Marcus Hensel
Protocols for the education of young witches and wizards	Alison Baker
Creature, Monster, Nameless, Created: Frankenstein transformed in role playing games	Jon Garrad
“Nessie”: An uncannily apt name for a serpentine water-monster	Lloyd Graham
“The blood-dimmed tide is loosed”: Dracula as Prophetic Foretelling of WWI and Germany’s Assault on England	Genesea Carter
Living with Monsters	Ilana Gershon and Yasmine Musharbash

August 2024: Syllabi and Course Materials

Deposit Title	Author
AI and the Humanities, a Course	Alexa Alice Joubin
DH 450 Digital Humanities Capstone Syllabus	Kate Topham
Book Histories and Futures: Literature in Times of Media Change	Jeremiah Mercurio
Technology, Literacy, & Culture: Narrative Play: Storytelling Games at Home & On Screen	Emily Friedman
Religious Change in the Age of Modernism	Jamie Callison
Africa in the Indian Ocean World	Prita Meier
Nature, Literature, Culture: An Introduction to the Environmental Humanities (Winter 2022) and Contract Grading FAQ	Marika Brown
Syllabus for Digital Humanities and Early Latinx Literatures	Molly D. Appel
Intro to Literary Study: Reading Bodies & Disability Syllabus	Hayley Stefan

June 2024: Digital Humanities

Deposit Title	Author
Uncovering and Showcasing the Work of a 19th Century Botanist and Educator using Digital Humanities Tools	Erin Lane, Katie Sagal, & India Smith
Centering our Values: A Framework for Digital Humanities in the Library	Pamella Lach
Wikipedia in Classics Education	Victoria Leonard, Anna P. Judson, & Katharine Shields
Towards the Digitization of Middle Byzantine Notation: A Formal Model and Knowledge Representation	Christina Anagnostopoulou, Dionysios Kalofonos, & Polykarpos Polykarpidis
Doing (Computational) Literary Studies	Katherine Bode
Community-Centered Sustainability: A Case Study of the Music Encoding Initiative	Katarina Fenlon & Jessica Grimmer
Incarnation and Digitization: Marshall McLuhan and the Digital Humanities	Andrew Stout
Digital Humanities and/as Media Studies	Abigail Moreshead & Anastasia Salter

May 2024: AAPI Heritage Month

Deposit Title	Author
Tausug Identity and the Exclusionary Character of “Filipinoness”	Sterling Vaughn Herrera Shaw
Heterogeneity and Baul Spirituality: The Songs of Baul Taskir Ali in Bangladesh	Golam Rabbani
A Precedent of Success: Pacific Islanders’ Transnational Activism against the Ocean Dumping of Radioactive Waste	Nan Kim
Crisis in Ancient South Asia – Concepts, Causes, Countermeasures	Vitus Angermeier
The Borderlands Feminine: A Feminist, Decolonial Framework for Re-membering Motherlines in South Asia/Transnational Culture	Monica Mody
Screening Anti-Asian Racism: Gendered and Racialized Discourses in Film and Television	Alexa Alice Joubin
Utopias Misplaced: The Cost of Outsourcing Dystopian Poetics to North Korea	Seo-Young Chu
Archival Aesthetics: Framing and Exhibiting Indian Manuscripts and Manuscript Libraries	Anthony Cerulli
On the Banks: Currents within APIDA/A Youth Experiences in Michigan	Anapaola Almaguer-Morales et al.

April 2024: Art History & Earth Day (April 22)

Deposit Title	Author
The Challenge of Depicting Divinity: Stefano da Putignano’s Trinity	Hailey Chomos
Eyes wide open: A recurring ocular motif in and beyond Syracuse, Sicily	Lloyd Graham
Finding Queer Optimism in the Art of Oscar Zalameda	Alvin Alagao
With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985	Anne Swartz
Digitisation of Historical Dress and Textile Collections: Facilitating Platforms for Accessibility, Preservation, and Research of Material Culture	Alicia Mihalic
The Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde: Ultraísmo & Estridentismo, 1918-1927	Claudio Palomares-Salas
An Ecological Messiah?: Reading Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Through the Theory of the Marvelous and Timothy Morton’s Concept of Agrilogistics	Guillermo Guadarrama Mendoza
Public Humanities EcoGothic at the Coast in Ireland and Wales	Claire Connolly, James Louis Smith, & Rita Singer
Modeling Performing Arts: On the Representations of Agency	Birk Weiberg
The Missing ‘Brazilianness’ of Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Art and Architecture	Ana Amélia de Paula Moura & Pedro P. Palazzo
Museum Photo Archives and the History of the Art Market: A Digital Approach	Lukas Fuchsgruber

March 2024: Archives

Deposit Title	Author
But Where IS the Daidalos Project? Searching for Meaning in a Fragmented Archive	Stephanie Grimes
Archival Theory in the Age of the Machine	Marlene Manoff
The Virtual Blockson: Using Virtual Reality to Teach Black Archival Research​	Jasmine Clark
Creative Commons Licensing and Donor Negotiations: A Guide for Archivists	Rebecca Parmer
Coming Out of Chaos: Community Archives, Oral History, and Networks of Archival Support	Emma Metcalfe Hurst
The Generative Power of Archival Silences	Amalia S. Levi
Current methods to FAIR data in LAM	Angela M. Hurshman
When Art Meets Podcasting: The Future of WPI Oral Histories	Samantha Rowe

February 2024: Romanticism

Deposit Title	Author
“Supreme in Ruin”: Empire’s Afterlife in Romantic Encounters with Imperial Ruins	Arif Camoglu
Wordsworth, Wittgenstein, and the Reconstruction of the Everyday	Magdalena Ostas
Byron’s Eastern Tales: Eastern Themes and Contexts	Susan Oliver
“Parents of the mind”: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Aesthetics of Productive Masculinity	Dustin Friedman
John Savarese	Maeve Doyle

January 2024: Film & Television Studies

Deposit Title	Author
Destabilizing Gender and Genre: Queering the Body in Libertarias and Land and Freedom	Kathryn Anne Everly
Labyrinths of the Self: Different Characters, Identical Bodies in “Battlestar Galactica”	Sérgio Dias Branco
The Violence of the Frame: Image, Animal, Interval in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac	Steven Swarbrick
No time like the past: Hearing nostalgia in The Twilight Zone	Reba Wissner
Philomena and Ireland’s Mother-and-baby Homes	Malin Lidström Brock
Confronting the Legacy of Historical Trauma through Gothic Historical Television Drama	Derek Johnston

December 2023: Medieval Studies

Deposit Title	Author
The Economics of Late Medieval Towns – Businesses and their Protection by the Use of City Books. A comparative case study for the 15th century.	Max Grund
Gentry, Gentility, and Genealogy in Lancashire: The Cudworths of Werneth Hall, Oldham, c.1377–1683	Robert E. Stansfield-Cudworth
Johannes Trithemius on the Fourfold Sense of Scripture: The Tractatus de Inuestigatione Sacrae Scripturae (1486)	Karlfried Froehlich
Epistemology of Translation: Erasing Viscountesses and Viscounts from High Medieval Legal Records, Selective ‘Anglo-Saxonism’, and Teleology	Stephen Hewer
Looking Beyond the Binary: Gender and Owner Portraits in Later Medieval Devotional Manuscripts	Maeve Doyle
Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World	Richard H. Godden and Asa Simon Mittman

November 2023: Comics & Graphic Fiction, World Philosophy Day (November 16)

Deposit Title	Author
Re-Wiring the Self and Memory in the Posthuman of Superhero Comics	Rimi Nandy
Intercultural dialogue in manga: Building friendships, sharing spaces and values	Zalina Mohd Lazim, Raihanah M Mydin, Melissa Shamini Perry
Stacked Against Us	Sumera Subzwari
Kismet Seventy Years Later: Recognizing the First Genuine Muslim Superhero	A. Lewis
Thinking with and without the Mother	Vincent van Gerven Oei
Synesthetic Language: The Multisensory Foundation of Human Thought	Daniel Goldman
Body Politics: Unearthing an Embodied Ethics in V for Vendetta	Todd Comer
And None of it Fits Inside Panels: Graphic Silence in Graphic Medicine	Briana Martino
Building a Japanese Manga Collection for Non-Traditional Patrons in an Academic Library	Molly Des Jardin & Michael P. Williams
Art History, Japanese Popular Culture and the Tokyo 2020 Olympics	Martin de la Iglesia

October 2023: Arts & Humanities Month, Friends of the Library Week, Halloween

Deposit Title	Author
Curating Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities	Rebecca Frost Davis, Matthew K. Gold, Katherine D. Harris
Preserving Dynamic Collaborative Environments in the Arts and Humanities	William R. Bowen, Luis Meneses, Ray Siemens
A Generative Praxis	Julian C. Chambliss & Scot French
Confronting Whiteness with the Public Humanities	Mary Rizzo
The (Once) Remote Librarian: Reinventing Our Role in the Face of a Pandemic	Kimberly Farrington, Dana Hanford, Joy Hansen, Martha Kruy, Brian Matzke, Jillian Maynard, Susan Slaga-Metivier, Renata Vickrey
Public libraries, teen advisory boards, and UNCRC Article 12: A look at how public libraries are fostering teenagers’ right to be listened to	Renee C.Y.M. Gaillard
Visioning the (im)possible: Experiences of Librarian-caregivers During the Pandemic and Strategies for the Future of Library Work	Rebecca Friedman, Kate Joranson, Gabriella Karl-Johnson, Lauren Puzier, Alice Whiteside
They Live: Violence, Horror and Spectres in Four Contemporary Argentine Films	Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha
The Folk of Folk Horror	Derek Johnston

September 2023: Classical Music Month & Piano Month

Deposit Title	Author
Women’s Compiled Scores in Early Film Music	Kendra Preston Leonard
A Coherent Model of Musical Consonance	Joel Edelman
The Anime Sound: An Analytical and Semiotic Study of Contemporary Anime Music	Tân Nazaré
Formal Functions and Rotations in Top-40 EDM	Brad Osborn
Contemplation, Heroism, and Gender in Clara Schumann’s Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 17, Third Movement (1846)	Tekla Babyak
Non-white and/or non-Protestant Lyricists of the Women’s Suffrage Movement	Jeannie Ma. Guerrero
“Over the Ruined Factory There’s a Funny Noise”: Throbbing Gristle and the Mediatized Roots of Noise in/as Music	Melle Jan Kromhout
The Intermediate Sphere in North Indian Music Culture: Between and Beyond ‘Folk’ and ‘Classical’	Peter Manuel

August 2023: Black August; #Arrgust (International Pirate’s Month); National Poets Day (August 21)

Deposit Title	Author
Surveillance Graphs: Vulgarity and Cloud Orthodoxy in Linked Data Infrastructures	Jonny Saunders
Introduction to Four Poems from Langston Hughes’s Spanish Civil War Verse	Anne Donlon & Evelyn Scaramella
Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy	Martin Paul Eve
Art for People’s Sake: Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965-1975	Stacy R. Williams
‘We’ the people–Collective lyric self in twenty-first-century poetry	Carlos A. Pittella
“A Language of Wet Stones and Mists”: The Caribbean Poet as a Traveller in Wales and England	Marija Bergam Pellicani
Confronting Authorship, Constructing Practices (How Copyright is Destroying Collective Practice)	Eva Weinmayr
The Pedagogical Legacy of bell hooks	Danica Savonick
Pirate Care	Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak
Legacies of Lynching: The Odyssey of Oscar Mack	Julian Chambliss
When Care Needs Piracy: The Case for Disobedience in Struggles Against Imperial Property Regimes	Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak
Black Panther Radical Factionalization and the Development of Black Anarchism	Dana Williams

July 2023: Clean Beaches week July 1-7; Shark Week July 11-18; Disability Pride Month all month

Deposit Title	Author
Out of Sorts: A Queer Crip in the Archive	Ryan Lee Cartwright
Bodyminds Like Ours: An Autoethnographic Analysis of Graduate School, Disability, and the Politics of Disclosure	Angela Carter, Tina Catania, Sam Schmitt, Amanda Swenson
Mapping Access: Digital Humanities, Disability Justice, and Sociospatial Practice	Aimi Hamraie
‘A Serious Man Versus Nature Moment’: Aquatic Monsters, Deep Time, and Climate Change	Michael Fuchs
Sea, My Bones – The Lithographs	June Julian
The Sound of the Sea Lithographs	June Julian
Studies in the Humanities (disability studies and ecology intersections)	Todd Comer and Christine Junker
Exploring joy as an active actor in reframing experiences of dis/ability	Anita Goldschmied
Static Place	Leora Fridman
A Story Like Mine	Naomi Lawson Jacobs
Creating Accessible University Libraries for Students with Visual Impairments: An Investigation of the Resources and Strategies used by Librarians.	Sophia Griffiths
Disability, Deficiency, and Excess: A Cinematic Construction of Disability in Popular Odia Cinema	Jyotirmaya Patnaik

June 2023: Pride Month

Deposit Title	Author
From Miami to Hong Kong: Sounding Transnational Queerness and Translation in Moonlight	Kaleb E. Goldschmitt
Ratchet Feminism on TikTok: Visual Culture Resistance to Oppression	M. Bryn Brody
Improbable Modes of Being	Eileen Joy
Drawing Queer Intersections Through Video Game Archives	Xavier Ho & Cody Mejeur
Queer Browsing and the Library of Congress Subject Headings: Can user-generated tags enhance subject access to LGBTQ+ material?	Elle Moyse
Love in the Time of HIV: Narratives of Filipino HIV Serodiscordant Gay Couples in Metro Manila, Philippines	Jeffry Acaba
New Era of Queer Politics? PrEP, Foucauldian Sexual Liberation, and the Overcoming of Homonormativity	Karsten Schubert
The Horror of Sex: Gothic Asexuality and Medical Body Horror in The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling	Vicky Brewster
Do Queer Theory and Victorian Studies Still Have Anything to Learn from Each Other?	Dustin Friedman

May 2023: AAPI Heritage Month

Deposit Title	Author
“Anti-Asian Racist Misogyny in Science Fiction Films.” The American Mosaic: The Asian American Experience	Alexa Alice Joubin
Imagining an Asian American Superhero of North Korean Origin: A Design Fiction	Seo-Young Chu
Asian American Feminism’s Alliances with Men: Reading Hisaye Yamamoto’s ‘Seventeen Syllables’ as an Antidraft Tract	Cynthia Wu
“In the Face of Xenophobia: Lessons to Address Bullying of South Asian American Youth”	Monisha Bajaj, Karishma Desai, Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher
Allegories of Time and Space: Japanese Identity in Photography and Architecture	Lindsey Reno

April 2023: Earth Month

Deposit Title	Author
Nature, Literature, Culture: An Introduction to the Environmental Humanities (Winter 2022) and Contract Grading FAQ	Marika Avenel Brown
Industry, Postcolony, and the Immersive Arts of Environmental Storytelling	Hanna Musiol
Topics in Environmental Humanities: Whose Apocalypse? (2022-2023 syllabus)	Michelle Bastian
‘A truly sublime appearance’: using GIS to find the traces of pre-colonial landscapes and land use	Imogen Wegman
The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot	Sophie Christman
Review: Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics	Barbara Ann Opar
Irreverent Theology: On the Queer Ecology of Creation	Jacob Erickson