final digital projects

Posted on by Eric Weiskott

This semester I taught “Graduate Colloquium: Digital Humanities,” the required introductory course in our graduate certificate program in digital humanities. All my students chose to hand in a final digital project as opposed to a researched paper (though several of the projects involved a lot of research!). I’m proud of the class’s efforts and wanted to record and share their public websites.

Thanks to the Digital Scholarship team at the Boston College Libraries and others around campus who worked to support these projects this semester.

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France, Spencer. “The Homogenic History of the Hardy Boys.” [Voyant Tools / Wix]

Green, R. “Mapping Sacred Heart: Visualizing the Parish Census.” [ArcGIS / Google Sites]

Mills, Mackenzie. “Tracing Spiritualist Ideas 1840-1900.” [ArcGIS]

Paviwala, Munirmahedi. “Tracing Agricultural Change in South Asia (1500-1750 CE).” [ArcGIS / R]

Steacy, Fiona. “Mapping New England Literature.” [Google Maps / WordPress]

Zehner, Katie. “The Grave of Mr. Joseph Tapping.” [3D Scanner App / Weebly]

Zhu, Alexander. “The Temple of Mars: A Recreation of the Temple of Mars from the Knight’s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer.” [Minecraft / Blender / Google Sites]

new poetry chapbook!

Posted on by Eric Weiskott

I am thrilled to announce the publication of my new poetry chapbook Chanties: An American Dream, from Bottlecap Press. Chanties weaves together different threads of my interests and our collective experiences of living on this planet. The book has been over a year in the making, and I’m excited to share it with you all. You can purchase it today for only $10 here!

Chanties: An American Dream is a shipboard reverie about the American boat we’re all in. Prose poems, lists, and lyrics find their sea legs while musing on a photograph of a lover left on shore. In a contemporary moment when the deep reaches of the forest already belong to IKEA, the ocean beckons. “The depths turn electric.” Responding to the impasse of subjective expression in contemporary lyric theory, these poems are scored in a national “first-person choral.”

Inspiration comes from past and present voyagers on these waters: Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Allen Ginsberg, Elizabeth Willis, Claudia Rankine, Ben Lerner, and Solmaz Sharif. The epitaphic concluding poem monumentalizes literary missed connections, ships passing in the night. “Here lies all your scholarship. Here lies your poetry.”