CV

Experience

• Head of Student Programs, Scholars’ Lab
  University of Virginia Library, January 2019-present
• Head of Graduate Programs, Scholars’ Lab
  University of Virginia Library, May 2017-January 2019
• Mellon Digital Humanities Fellow, Visiting Assistant Professor of English
  Washington and Lee University Library, November 2015-May 2017

Education

• Ph.D. in English, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (November 2015)
  
• M.A. in English, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (2011)
• B.A. (with Distinction), University of Virginia, Charlottesville (2009)

Selected Awards and Grants

• Mentor, Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium’s Teaching and Capacity Building Fellowship program, 2022
• $6000 Grant for AV/VR Documentation, with Arin Bennett and Will Rourke, Parents Fund UVA, 2019
• Raven Fellowship to develop Python web application to analyze sound recordings of poetry, Raven Society, Raven Society, UVA, 2015
• Yalden-Thomson Summer Grant to develop Python web application to analyze sound recordings of poetry, Society of Fellows, UVA, 2015
• Graduate Fellowship in the Digital Humanities, Scholars’ Lab, UVA, 2015-16
• Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, UVA, 2015
• First Place at UVA’s Huskey Graduate Research Exhibition for presentation on “Hearing Silent Woolf”
• Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, UVA, 2014-2015
• Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Summer Research Fellowship Award; Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, UVA, 2013
• Praxis Program Fellowship, Scholars’ Lab, UVA, 2012-2013
• Summer Graduate Research and Travel Grant, UVA, annually, 2010-present

Peer Review Publications

• “The Pedagogy of Digital Humanities Budgets”, Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (Forthcoming).
• “The Futures of Digital Humanities Pedagogy in a Time of Crisis”, The Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities (Forthcoming).
• “A Way In: Digital Pedagogy Training with Low-tech, Speculative Workshops,” with Malcolm Cammeron, Caroline Carter, Winnie E. Pérez Martínez, and Samantha Stephens, Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy 24, https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/a-way-in-digital-pedagogy-training-with-speculative-low-tech-workshops/section/d26fab6f-c473-489a-9516-a6e6f0c747a7.
• “The Three-Speed Problem in Digital Humanities Pedagogy”, in What We Teach When We Teach DH: Digital Humanities in the Classroom, part of the Debates in Digital Humanities Series (2023).
• “The Life of a Digital Humanities Lab,” with Aaron Brenner, Sarah Connell, Jennifer Grayburn, Matthew Hannah, and Brad Rittenhouse, in Digital Humanities and Laboratories: Perspectives on Knowledge, Infrastructure and Culture (2023).
• “Prism and Reading’s Shape,” in Pataphysics Then & Now, part of the Reconfiguring Modernism series (2022).
• Amanda Visconti, Brandon Walsh, and Scholars’ Lab Community, “Running a Collaborative Research Website and Blog with Jekyll and GitHub,” The Programming Historian 9 (2020), https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0090.
• “Juxta Commons Revision/Collation Assignment”, under the “Text Analysis” keyword in Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments, June 2020.
• “Prism,” under the “Poetry” keyword in Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments, June 2020.
• LeBlanc, Z., & Walsh, B. (2019). Workshopping the Workshop: Moving Your Sessions Beyond Buttonology. In #DLFTeach Toolkit: Lesson Plans for Digital Library Instruction (1st ed.). https://doi.org/10.21428/65a6243c.41fb7b06.
• “Frustration is a Feature: Ugly Feelings and the Digital Humanities,” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, vol. 19 no 3, 2019.
• Sichani, Anna-Maria, James Baker, Maria José Afanador Llach, and Brandon Walsh. 2019. “Diversity and Inclusion in Digital Scholarship and Pedagogy: The Case of the Programming Historian”. Insights 32 (1): 16. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.465.
• “The Joycean Record: Listening Patterns and Sound Coteries,” James Joyce Quarterly, vol. 53 no. 3-4, 2018.
• “Editing Audio with Audacity”, The Programming Historian 5 (2016), https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0050. Also translated into Spanish as “Editar audio con Audacity”, traducido por José Antonio Motilla, The Programming Historian en español 1 (2017), https://doi.org/10.46430/phes0007.
• “Crowdsourcing Individual Interpretations: Between Microtasking and Macrotasking,” Brandon Walsh; Claire Maiers; Gwen Nally; Jeremy Boggs; Literary and Linguistic Computing 2014; https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqu030.
• “Broken Songs and Machine Noise in Joseph Conrad’s Early Fiction,” Conradiana, vol. 44, no. 2-3, pp. 211-226 (Fall/Winter 2012).

Other Publications

• Walsh, B. (2022). Review: Baltimore Traces. Reviews in Digital Humanities, III(1). https://doi.org/10.21428/3e88f64f.0e463a51.
• Walsh, B. (2021). Review: Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces. Reviews in Digital Humanities, II(5). https://doi.org/10.21428/3e88f64f.bf2d3fa7.
• Co-editor with Kelly Hammond and Gregory Palermo, Issue 18 of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy with a Forum on Data and Computational Pedagogy, Fall 2020.
• “A Humanists Cookbook for Natural Language Processing in Python”, with Rebecca Bultman, Fall 2020.
• “Remixing the Sound Archive: Cut-up Poetry Recordings,” Clipping, series in Jacket2, January 5, 2018.
• Introduction to Text Analysis: A Coursebook, open access textbook self-published with Sarah Horowitz, Fall 2016.
• A number of my blog posts have been featured on DH Now (9) and dh+lib (2).

Public Writing

• “The Banished Vault and what remains,” Backlog, September 10, 2024.
• “Midnights Suns and my midnight son,” Backlog, June 18, 2024.
• “Royal Match and the slow decay,” Backlog, October 26, 2023.
• “Backchat: Her Story,” Backlog, with Alyssa Collins and Grayson Morley, October 19, 2023.
• “Backchat: Boyfriend Dungeon”, Backlog, with Alyssa Collins and Grayson Morley, June 22, 2023.
• “Backchat: Dredge,” Backlog, with Alyssa Collins and Grayson Morley, April 22, 2023.
• “Nobody Saves the World and exuberant middle schoolers,” Backlog, with Grayson Morley, March 16, 2023.
• “Skyrim and a life ignoring destiny,” Backlog, February 16, 2023.
• “Backlog draft about Triangle Strategy,” Backlog, November 3, 2022.
• “Returnal and the unbroken loop,” Backlog, September 29, 2022.
• “Subnautica and the glitchy terrors of the deep,” Backlog, July 28, 2022.
• “Don’t Starve Together and friendship via chaos,” Backlog, with Grayson Morley, June 30, 2022.
• “SimsTok and the horrors of domesticity,” Backlog, February 3, 2022.
• “Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and confronting yourself,” Backlog, December 29, 2021.

Invited Presentations and Workshops

• Invited by Brooke Schmolke to discuss teaching and pedagogy with the student managers of Macalester’s Digital Resources Center.
• Invited talk, “Lessons from the Lab: Designing Community-Forward Spaces”, University of Chicago Library’s Library Futures Speaker Series, with Amanda Visconti, Spring 2023
• Invited talk, “Beyond Projecting: Planning DH Course Projects that Work for You,” Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium, Spring 2023
• Invited course visit on digital pedagogy, Zoe LeBlanc’s Introduction to Digital Humanities course, UIUC School of Information, Fall 2022
• Invited course visit, Kristen Mapes’ course on Digital Humanities Pedagogy, MSU; Spring 2022, Spring 2023
• Invited talk, “The Hard Modes: Jazz, Video Games, and the Pandemic,” Animal Crossing: New Digital Humanities; with Gregory Weaver, August 25, 2022.
• Invited participant, panel on “Digital Humanities Laboratories: Communities of/in Practice”, 2021 meeting of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities
• Invited talk with Bucknell DH students, Bucknell University, July 2020.
• Invited talk at Emory Center for Digital Scholarship on “Digital Pedagogy and Opportunities for Hope”, September 2019
• Invited workshop for students at Emory Center for Digital Scholarship on “Getting from Here to There” in DH project development, September 2019
• Invited workshop on teaching statements and digital humanities with Ashley Hosbach, at Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, June 2019
• Invited talk on graduate studies and digital humanities, Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center, Georgia Tech, March 2018
• Invited talk, “Text Analysis Pedagogy for Non-Programmers,” University of Pennsylvania WordLab, November 2017
• Invited roundtable, “Praxis Together: Building Digital Humanities Programs in the Library,” with Alyssa Collins, Julia Haines, and Ammon Shepherd; SEFLIN Virtual Conference on “Digital Utopia: Libraries Building Communities of Learning,” September 2017.
• Invited coach and workshop leader, Ohio 5 Student Newspaper Hackathon, College of Wooster, March 2017
• Keynote, “Planning a DH Project When You Feel like an Imposter”, and invited workshop leader, “Introduction to Text Analysis with Twitter”, Undergraduate Network for Research in the Humanities Conference, Lexington, VA, January 2017
• Invited talk, “Project Managing from the Outside In,” opening remarks for Digital Scholarship Retreat, Universiy of Michigan, March 2015
• Invited guest lectures on digital humanities software development and project management with Sarah Storti, presentations entitled “Design Instincts” and “Do you want to build a project?,” Washington & Lee University, April 2014, May 2015
• Invited guest lecture on project management, NINES, and Prism, Joanna Swafford’s DHM 293 course on “Digital Tools: Sherlock Holmes’s London,” SUNY New Paltz, November 2014
• Invited talk, “Praxis, or the Life Unknown,” Coalition for Networked Information workshop on “Digital Scholarship Centers: Trends and Good Practice,” St. Louis, MO, April 2014
• Guest lecture on the role of the Project Manager, Mark Kamrath’s ENG6806 course on “Digital Editing and Databases,” University of Central Florida, November 2013

Selected Conferences and Presentations

• “In SoliDHarity: Forming, Practicing, and Defending our Values”, workshop with Anne Cong-Huyen, Pamella R. Lach, Crystal Luo, Kate Ozment, Caitlin Pollock, and Amanda Visconti, ACH 2024 Conference, summer 2024
• “Digital Pedagogy on Paper: An Assignment Redesign Workshop” with Mackenzie Brooks, DLF Virtual Forum, fall 2024
• “#citepedagogy to Pedagogy-driven Publishing”, ACH 2024 Conference, summer 2024
• “DH Pedagogy and Labor” roundtable with Laura Braunstein, Gabriel Hankins, Zoe LeBlanc, Crystal Luo, Paige Morgan, and John Russell, ACH 2022 Conference, summer 2022
• “Building Community and Generosity in the Context of Graduate Education,” in a panel on “Working at the Intersection: Digital Humanities Pedagogy, Social Justice, and Librarianship,” ACH 2021 Conference, summer 2021
• “The Programming Historian: A Global Case Study in Multilingual Open Access and DH Tutelage/Instruction”; with Daniel Alves, Jennifer Isasi, Sarah Melton, Sofia Papastamkou, Jessica Parr, Riva Quiroga, Nabeel Siddiqui, Brandon Walsh; 2021 Meeting of the Global Digital Humanities Symposium
• “The Programming Historian and Editorial Process in Digital Publishing,” MLA conference, 2021
• Forum on “The Open Lab: Digital Scholarship and the Question of Community,” DH Conference, summer 2020 (canceled due to COVID-19)
• “The Life of a (Scholars’) Lab: on Community,” ACH conference, summer 2019
• “Frustration is a Feature,” MLA conference, January 2018
• “Collaborative Writing to Build Digital Humanities Praxis,” DH conference, summer 2017
• “Remixing the Sound Archive: Cut-Up Poetry Records,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Baltimore, MD, March 2017
• “Planning to Share: Open Educational Resources for Small Liberal Arts Colleges,” workshop co-leader with Mackenzie Brooks, Digital Library Federation Small Liberal Arts College Pre-conference, Milwaukee, WI, November 2016
• “Student Writing as Digital Humanities Method,” with Mackenzie Brooks, Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, October 2016
• “Reading Speech: Virginia Woolf, Machine Learning, and the Quotation Mark”, HASTAC, Phoeniz, AZ, May 2016
• “The Sound of Modernism Today: Distant Reading Audiobook Culture”, American Comparative Literature Association, Boston, MA, March 2016
• “The Devil in the Recording: Deformative Listening and Poetry,” MLA, Vancouver, British Columbia, January 2015
• “Collation and Writing Pedagogy with Juxta Commons and Google Docs,” MLA, Vancouver, British Columbia, January 2015
• “Joyce, LibriVox, and the Recording Coterie,” “Mass versus Coterie: The Audiobook” panel, MLA, Chicago, IL, January 2014
• “Ulysses: ‘Noise in the Street,’ Sound of the Self,” XIII International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, June 2012
• “The Waste Land’s Onomatopoetics,” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, Louisville, KY, February 2012
• “Curating Coltrane: Kurt Elling’s Vocalese ‘Resolution,’” Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association Joint Conference, San Antonio, TX, April 2011

Selected Digital Projects and Related Experience

• GitHub Repository
• 2016, Lead Writer: Introduction to Text Analysis: A Coursebook, remixable coursebook on introductory text analysis meant for beginner readers, co-authored with Sarah Horowitz, Washington and Lee University
• 2015-2017, Lead Developer: Huon d’Auvergne, Ruby on Rails TEI edition and implementation of Versioning Machine, Washington and Lee University
• 2015-2017, Developer: Scholar, Ruby on Rails implementation of BibApp for cataloging faculty publications, Washington and Lee University
• 2016-2017, Lead Developer: Shenandoah, Ruby on Rails interface to JSON API for searching a literary journal’s index, Washington and Lee University
• 2013-present, Developer: Prism, Ruby on Rails web application for crowdsourcing textual analysis, created with the Praxis team and the UVa Scholars’ Lab
• 2015-2017, Lead Developer: Hearing Silent Woolf, Python machine learning project on sound in modernist fiction, received graduate fellowship in digital humanities, UVa Scholars’ Lab
• 2013-2015, Project Manager: Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship (NINES), UVa
• Summer 2017-2018, Co-Instructor: Course on “Help! I’m a Humanist! - Humanities Programming with Python,” Humanities Intensive Learning & Teaching, with Ethan Reed
• Summer 2014-2016, Co-Instructor: Course on “Humanities Programming with Ruby on Rails,” Humanities Intensive Learning & Teaching, with Ethan Reed (formerly Wayne Graham)
• Summer 2013, Developer: Little Red Schoolhouse, Drupal site for teaching rhetoric and composition, UVa

Technical Profile

• Languages: Python, Ruby, JavaScript
• Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Jekyll
• Large-scale text analysis: natural language processing, topic modeling, machine learning
• Frontend web design: HTML5, CSS3
• Content management systems: Drupal, WordPress, Omeka
• Version control systems: Git, GitHub
• Markup systems: RDF, XML, TEI

Teaching (University of Virginia)

• ENGN 5559: Digital Literary Studies
  (Co-Instructor with Alison Booth, one section; Spring 2019)
• Praxis Program
  (Lead Instructor in collaboration w/ Scholars’ Lab staff; annually from 2017 to present)
• Scholars’ Lab Student Programs
  (In collaboration w/ Scholars’ Lab staff; 2017 to present)

Teaching (Washington and Lee University)

• DH 394/ENGL 394 Hacking the Book
  (Instructor, 1 section; Planned but untaught Spring 2017)
• WRIT 100 Writing in the Age of Digital Surveillance
  (Instructor, 1 section; Winter 2017)
• HIST 211 Scandal, Crime, and Spectacle in the 19th Century
  (Co-Instructor with Sarah Horowitz, 1 section; Fall 2016; course fulfills DH credit)
• Undergraduate Digital Humanities Fellows Program
  (Co-Administrator with Mackenzie Brooks, 2 cohorts; Fall 2015-present)

Teaching (University of Virginia as Graduate Student)

• ENWR 1510 Accelerated Academic Writing, “The Musical: Then and Now”
  (Instructor, 2 sections; Fall 2012, Spring 2013)
• IHGC 3550 How to Survive an Apocalypse
  (Co-Instructor with Elizabeth Fox, 1 section; Spring 2015)
• IHGC 3559 American Youth and Film
  (Co-Instructor with Elizabeth Fox, 1 section; Spring 2014)
• ENGL 3820 History of Literature in English II
  (Head Teaching Assistant, 1 section; Spring 2014)
• ENGL 3830 History of Literature in English III
  (Head Teaching Assistant, 1 section; Fall 2011)
• ENWR 3800 Academic and Professional Writing
  (Teaching Assistant, 1 section; Spring 2012)
• ENRN 3210 Shakespeare I
  (Teaching Assistant, 2 sections; Fall 2013)
• ENSP 5821 Culture of London: Past and Present
  (Study Abroad Program Assistant, Summer 2013-2015)

Professional Service and Affiliations

• Delegate Assembly representative, MLA Libraries and Research Forum, Winter 2022-present
• Association for the Computers and the Humanities Executive Council Member, spring 2020-2022
• The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, Editorial Collective, fall 2018-present
• Programming Historian, Editorial Board 2017-2021
• Digital Humanities Conference, abstract reader, summer 2014-present
• Reviewer for Conradiana; Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700; Digital Humanities Quarterly
• Communications chair for Chesapeake DH Consortium, 2019-2020

Local Service (Washington and Lee)

• Digital Humanities Faculty Committee, 2015-2017
• Digital Humanities Action Team, 2015-2017
• Writing Program Faculty Cohort, 2016-2017

Local Service (University of Virginia)

• Conference Organizer Assistant, “Moving People / Linking Lives: An Interdisciplinary Symposium,” 2014-2015.
• Graduate English Students Association: MA representative, 2010-11; Modern and Contemporary Literature Area Representative, 2012-2013; Secretary, 2012-13; President, 2013-14.
• Institute for the Humanities and Global Cultures, Graduate Advisory Board, Spring 2012-present; chair 2013-14.
• UVA Graduate Conference Committee: Chair, Budget subcommittee 2009-2011; Conference Co-Chair with Sophia Gu, 2011-12.