RSVP for Scott McCloud’s Free Public Lecture

…identify themselves as guests of Rutgers and the tickets will be stamped/validated. Directions to campus Visit the Rutgers-Camden website for directions to campus. Upon arriving at Cooper Street, turn north on Sixth Street and then east on Penn Street. The garage entrance is just ahead on the right. Upon parking,…

The Digital Studies Community

…these disciplines have to contribute to our knowledge of computing.” Digital Studies Community Requirements Participation in the Digital Studies Certificate program. Attendance at DSC Workshops, lectures, and seminars during the Fall and Spring. Submission of a Digital Humanities project to the students’ project page of the DSC website before graduation….

Fall 2018 DS Courses

…AND TOURING LATIN AMERICAN LANDSCAPES This course casts a panoramic view on representations of landscapes in the literature and cultural production of Latin America, from the pre-colonial times to the globalized present. We will focus on modes of geographic perception and artistic representation, exploring the intersections of nature and culture…

2016-2017 Fellows

Holly Blackford (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is a Professor of English at Rutgers University-Camden, where she teaches and publishes literary criticism on American and children’s literature. Her books include Out of this World: Why Literature Matters to Girls (Teachers College, Columbia University, 2004), Mockingbird Passing: Closeted Traditions and Sexual…

Projects

…to build media projects that reexamine the history of Johnson Park and the Cooper Branch Library building (which now houses the Digital Commons). Specifically, this project aims to build media projects that engage with the frieze on the front of the building. That frieze, “America Receiving the Gifts of the…