CORE Deposit Spotlight

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The CORE Deposit Spotlight project came about in April of 2023 as a way of setting aside space to celebrate and amplify the exciting work that our community members are sharing on the Commons. Each month, we choose one (or a few) monthly themes and mine the repository for articles, reviews, chapters, conference papers, teaching materials, and more to share on our social feeds and boost on the Commons. Bookmark this page and check back regularly to see what’s new!

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August 2024: Syllabi and Course Materials

Deposit TitleAuthor
AI and the Humanities, a CourseAlexa Alice Joubin
DH 450 Digital Humanities Capstone SyllabusKate Topham
Book Histories and Futures: Literature in Times of Media ChangeJeremiah Mercurio
Technology, Literacy, & Culture: Narrative Play: Storytelling Games at Home & On ScreenEmily Friedman
Religious Change in the Age of ModernismJamie Callison
Africa in the Indian Ocean WorldPrita Meier
Nature, Literature, Culture: An Introduction to the Environmental Humanities (Winter 2022) and Contract Grading FAQMarika Brown
Syllabus for Digital Humanities and Early Latinx LiteraturesMolly D. Appel
Intro to Literary Study: Reading Bodies & Disability SyllabusHayley Stefan

Archive of Past Featured Deposits


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June 2024: Digital Humanities
May 2024: AAPI Heritage Month
April 2024: Art History
March 2024: Archives
February 2024: Romanticism
January 2024: Film & Television Studies
December 2023: Medieval Studies
November 2023: Comics & Graphic Fiction, World Philosophy Day
October 2023: Arts & Humanities Month, Friends of the Library Week, Halloween
September 2023: Classical Music Month & Piano Month
August 2023: Black August; #Arrgust; National Poets Day
July 2023: Clean Beaches week; Shark Week; Disability Pride Month
June 2023: Pride Month
May 2023: AAPI Heritage Month
April 2023: Earth Month

June 2024: Digital Humanities

Deposit TitleAuthor
Uncovering and Showcasing the Work of a 19th Century Botanist and Educator using Digital Humanities ToolsErin Lane, Katie Sagal, & India Smith
Centering our Values: A Framework for Digital Humanities in the LibraryPamella Lach
Wikipedia in Classics EducationVictoria Leonard, Anna P. Judson, & Katharine Shields
Towards the Digitization of Middle Byzantine Notation: A Formal Model and Knowledge RepresentationChristina Anagnostopoulou, Dionysios Kalofonos, & Polykarpos Polykarpidis
Doing (Computational) Literary StudiesKatherine Bode
Community-Centered Sustainability: A Case Study of the Music Encoding InitiativeKatarina Fenlon & Jessica Grimmer
Incarnation and Digitization: Marshall McLuhan and the Digital HumanitiesAndrew Stout
Digital Humanities and/as Media StudiesAbigail Moreshead & Anastasia Salter

May 2024: AAPI Heritage Month

Deposit TitleAuthor
Tausug Identity and the Exclusionary Character of “Filipinoness”Sterling Vaughn Herrera Shaw
Heterogeneity and Baul Spirituality: The Songs of Baul Taskir Ali in BangladeshGolam Rabbani
A Precedent of Success: Pacific Islanders’ Transnational Activism against the Ocean Dumping of Radioactive WasteNan Kim
Crisis in Ancient South Asia – Concepts, Causes, CountermeasuresVitus Angermeier
The Borderlands Feminine: A Feminist, Decolonial Framework for Re-membering Motherlines in South Asia/Transnational CultureMonica Mody
Screening Anti-Asian Racism: Gendered and Racialized Discourses in Film and TelevisionAlexa Alice Joubin
Utopias Misplaced: The Cost of Outsourcing Dystopian Poetics to North KoreaSeo-Young Chu
Archival Aesthetics: Framing and Exhibiting Indian Manuscripts and Manuscript LibrariesAnthony Cerulli
On the Banks: Currents within APIDA/A Youth Experiences in MichiganAnapaola Almaguer-Morales et al.

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

Deposit TitleAuthor
The Challenge of Depicting Divinity: Stefano da Putignano’s TrinityHailey Chomos
Eyes wide open: A recurring ocular motif in and beyond Syracuse, SicilyLloyd Graham
Finding Queer Optimism in the Art of Oscar ZalamedaAlvin Alagao
With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985Anne Swartz
Digitisation of Historical Dress and Textile Collections: Facilitating Platforms for Accessibility, Preservation, and Research of Material CultureAlicia Mihalic
The Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde: Ultraísmo & Estridentismo, 1918-1927Claudio 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 AgrilogisticsGuillermo Guadarrama Mendoza
Public Humanities EcoGothic at the Coast in Ireland and WalesClaire Connolly, James Louis Smith, & Rita Singer
Modeling Performing Arts: On the Representations of AgencyBirk Weiberg
The Missing ‘Brazilianness’ of Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Art and ArchitectureAna Amélia de Paula Moura & Pedro P. Palazzo
Museum Photo Archives and the History of the Art Market: A Digital ApproachLukas Fuchsgruber

March 2024: Archives

Deposit TitleAuthor
But Where IS the Daidalos Project? Searching for Meaning in a Fragmented ArchiveStephanie Grimes
Archival Theory in the Age of the MachineMarlene Manoff
The Virtual Blockson: Using Virtual Reality to Teach Black Archival Research​Jasmine Clark
Creative Commons Licensing and Donor Negotiations: A Guide for ArchivistsRebecca Parmer
Coming Out of Chaos: Community Archives, Oral History, and Networks of Archival SupportEmma Metcalfe Hurst
The Generative Power of Archival SilencesAmalia S. Levi
Current methods to FAIR data in LAMAngela M. Hurshman
When Art Meets Podcasting: The Future of WPI Oral HistoriesSamantha Rowe

February 2024: Romanticism

Deposit TitleAuthor
“Supreme in Ruin”: Empire’s Afterlife in Romantic Encounters with Imperial RuinsArif Camoglu
Wordsworth, Wittgenstein, and the Reconstruction of the EverydayMagdalena Ostas
Byron’s Eastern Tales: Eastern Themes and ContextsSusan Oliver
“Parents of the mind”: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Aesthetics of Productive MasculinityDustin Friedman
John SavareseMaeve Doyle

January 2024: Film & Television Studies

Deposit TitleAuthor
Destabilizing Gender and Genre: Queering the Body in Libertarias and Land and FreedomKathryn 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 NymphomaniacSteven Swarbrick
No time like the past: Hearing nostalgia in The Twilight ZoneReba Wissner
Philomena and Ireland’s Mother-and-baby HomesMalin Lidström Brock
Confronting the Legacy of Historical Trauma through Gothic Historical Television DramaDerek Johnston

December 2023: Medieval Studies

Deposit TitleAuthor
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.1377–1683Robert 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 TeleologyStephen Hewer
Looking Beyond the Binary: Gender and Owner Portraits in Later Medieval Devotional ManuscriptsMaeve Doyle
Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern WorldRichard H. Godden and Asa Simon Mittman

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

Deposit TitleAuthor
Re-Wiring the Self and Memory in the Posthuman of Superhero ComicsRimi Nandy
Intercultural dialogue in manga: Building friendships, sharing spaces and valuesZalina Mohd Lazim, Raihanah M Mydin, Melissa Shamini Perry
Stacked Against UsSumera Subzwari
Kismet Seventy Years Later: Recognizing the First Genuine Muslim SuperheroA. Lewis
Thinking with and without the MotherVincent van Gerven Oei
Synesthetic Language: The Multisensory Foundation of Human ThoughtDaniel Goldman
Body Politics: Unearthing an Embodied Ethics in V for VendettaTodd Comer
And None of it Fits Inside Panels: Graphic Silence in Graphic MedicineBriana Martino
Building a Japanese Manga Collection for Non-Traditional Patrons in an Academic LibraryMolly Des Jardin & Michael P. Williams
Art History, Japanese Popular Culture and the Tokyo 2020 OlympicsMartin de la Iglesia

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

Deposit TitleAuthor
Curating Digital Pedagogy in the HumanitiesRebecca Frost Davis, Matthew K. Gold, Katherine D. Harris
Preserving Dynamic Collaborative Environments in the Arts and HumanitiesWilliam R. Bowen, Luis Meneses, Ray Siemens
A Generative PraxisJulian C. Chambliss & Scot French
Confronting Whiteness with the Public HumanitiesMary Rizzo
The (Once) Remote Librarian: Reinventing Our Role in the Face of a PandemicKimberly 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 toRenee C.Y.M. Gaillard
Visioning the (im)possible: Experiences of Librarian-caregivers During the Pandemic and Strategies for the Future of Library WorkRebecca Friedman, Kate Joranson, Gabriella Karl-Johnson, Lauren Puzier, Alice Whiteside
They Live: Violence, Horror and Spectres in Four Contemporary Argentine FilmsNatalia Christofoletti Barrenha
The Folk of Folk HorrorDerek Johnston

September 2023: Classical Music Month & Piano Month

Deposit TitleAuthor
Women’s Compiled Scores in Early Film MusicKendra Preston Leonard
A Coherent Model of Musical ConsonanceJoel Edelman
The Anime Sound: An Analytical and Semiotic Study of Contemporary Anime MusicTân Nazaré
Formal Functions and Rotations in Top-40 EDMBrad 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 MovementJeannie Ma. Guerrero
“Over the Ruined Factory There’s a Funny Noise”: Throbbing Gristle and the Mediatized Roots of Noise in/as MusicMelle 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 TitleAuthor
Surveillance Graphs: Vulgarity and Cloud Orthodoxy in Linked Data InfrastructuresJonny Saunders
Introduction to Four Poems from Langston Hughes’s Spanish Civil War VerseAnne Donlon & Evelyn Scaramella
Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of PiracyMartin Paul Eve
Art for People’s Sake: Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965-1975Stacy R. Williams
‘We’ the people–Collective lyric self in twenty-first-century poetryCarlos A. Pittella
“A Language of Wet Stones and Mists”: The Caribbean Poet as a Traveller in Wales and EnglandMarija Bergam Pellicani
Confronting Authorship, Constructing Practices (How Copyright is Destroying Collective Practice)Eva Weinmayr
The Pedagogical Legacy of bell hooksDanica Savonick
Pirate CareValeria Graziano, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak
Legacies of Lynching: The Odyssey of Oscar MackJulian Chambliss
When Care Needs Piracy: The Case for Disobedience in Struggles Against Imperial Property RegimesValeria Graziano, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak
Black Panther Radical Factionalization and the Development of Black AnarchismDana Williams

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

Deposit TitleAuthor
Out of Sorts: A Queer Crip in the ArchiveRyan Lee Cartwright
Bodyminds Like Ours: An Autoethnographic Analysis of Graduate School, Disability, and the Politics of DisclosureAngela Carter, Tina Catania, Sam Schmitt, Amanda Swenson
Mapping Access: Digital Humanities, Disability Justice, and Sociospatial PracticeAimi Hamraie
‘A Serious Man Versus Nature Moment’: Aquatic Monsters, Deep Time, and Climate ChangeMichael Fuchs
Sea, My Bones – The LithographsJune Julian
The Sound of the Sea LithographsJune 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/abilityAnita Goldschmied
Static PlaceLeora Fridman
A Story Like MineNaomi 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 CinemaJyotirmaya Patnaik

June 2023: Pride Month

Deposit TitleAuthor
From Miami to Hong Kong: Sounding Transnational Queerness and Translation in MoonlightKaleb E. Goldschmitt
Ratchet Feminism on TikTok: Visual Culture Resistance to OppressionM. Bryn Brody
Improbable Modes of BeingEileen Joy
Drawing Queer Intersections Through Video Game ArchivesXavier 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, PhilippinesJeffry Acaba
New Era of Queer Politics? PrEP, Foucauldian Sexual Liberation, and the Overcoming of HomonormativityKarsten Schubert
The Horror of Sex: Gothic Asexuality and Medical Body Horror in The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin StarlingVicky Brewster
Do Queer Theory and Victorian Studies Still Have Anything to Learn from Each Other?Dustin Friedman

May 2023: AAPI Heritage Month

Deposit TitleAuthor
“Anti-Asian Racist Misogyny in Science Fiction Films.” The American Mosaic: The Asian American ExperienceAlexa Alice Joubin
Imagining an Asian American Superhero of North Korean Origin: A Design FictionSeo-Young Chu
Asian American Feminism’s Alliances with Men: Reading Hisaye Yamamoto’s ‘Seventeen Syllables’ as an Antidraft TractCynthia 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 ArchitectureLindsey Reno

April 2023: Earth Month

Deposit TitleAuthor
Nature, Literature, Culture: An Introduction to the Environmental Humanities (Winter 2022) and Contract Grading FAQMarika Avenel Brown
Industry, Postcolony, and the Immersive Arts of Environmental StorytellingHanna 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 useImogen Wegman
The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George EliotSophie Christman
Review: Climate Change and the New Polar AestheticsBarbara Ann Opar
Irreverent Theology: On the Queer Ecology of CreationJacob Erickson