Speaking

I’ve given workshops and presentations on a variety of topics related to digital humanities and pedagogy for several years. Many of the materials for these events are available on my blog. In addition to the examples below, I regularly talk about digital humanities pedagogy, professional development for graduate students, curricular development, DH technical training (with a special focus on beginners), digital project planning, and more. Reach out to me at bmw9t@virginia.edu if you would like to discuss working with your institution for an event.

Recent Invited Presentations and Workshops

• Invited speaker for roundtable on “Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities,” contribution entitled “Finding Your Lever: DH Pedagogy and Crisis,” Spring 2025.
• Invited workshop, “Organized Chaos: Humanities Data and Cleaning with a Purpose,” Pennsylvania State University, Spring 2025.
• Invited workshop, “Book, Number, Graph: Getting Started with Text Analysis”, University of Houston, Spring 2025.
• Invited by Brooke Schmolke to discuss teaching and pedagogy with the student managers of Macalester’s Digital Resources Center, 2024.
• 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 text analysis 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 DH Project Management, Mark Kamrath’s ENG6806 course on “Digital Editing and Databases,” University of Central Florida, November 2013