Digital Scholarship Opportunities

Digital Scholarship Opportunities for English Graduate Students

Graduate students have a variety of digital resources available for research and media production. Our students have used digital methods to enhance their research, explore interdisciplinary questions, produce public-facing work, and gain experience interacting with a range of digital projects.

• Lauren Klein is Winship Distinguished Research Professor and Associate Professor in the departments of Quantitative Theory & Methods and English at Emory University. She also serves as director of the Emory Digital Humanities Lab, is PI of the Mellon-funded Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network, and is editor of Debates in the Digital Humanities.
• Ben Miller is Associate Teaching Professor and Coordinator of Technical Writing in the Emory Writing Program.
• Gregory Palermois Assistant Teaching Professor in the Emory University Writing Program and co-editor of Reviews for the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. His work research and teaching frames data analysis as rhetoric and applybrings network analysis techniques to research and teaching oncitation datapractices.
• Dan Sinykin, Associate Professor of English, is cofounder of the Post 45 Data Collective, a peer-reviewed, open-access repository for literary and cultural data from 1945 to the present.

Emory’s Center for Digital Studies (ECDS) is a collaborative research center that creates innovative, sustainable models of digital scholarship and publication for public and academic use.  Students can get help with developing their digital projects, learn about digital scholarship and pedagogy, in workshop series, and receive training and professional development that includes as part of the Digital Scholarship Training Program and internship opportunities. ECDS also houses projects that have student opportunities, such as Southern Spaces and Atlanta Studies. 

Through The ECDS additionally provides materials and resources for , students can to learn digital tools and methods in self-paced tutorials and research guides.  offers consultations for locating and working with datasets, as well as class visits for instructors by staff .   llearn digital tools and methods that they can use in their research and teaching.

The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry and ECDS host the Graduate Community of Digital Scholars, a space for Emory graduate students to share and discuss works-in-progress which engage with the digital humanities, whether dissertation research, public humanities projects with digital components, grant applications for digital projects, or pedagogical materials using digital tools or technologies. 

Students can earn a Certificate in Digital Scholarship and Media Studies (DSMS) through the Laney Graduate School.  Along with the Seminar in Digital Scholarship and Media Studies (DSMS 700), students take four courses from an approved list, one of which must be an approved internship in digital scholarship.  

Emory Media Lab 

MediaLab, part of Academic Technology Services, features Adobe Creative Cloud, Final Cut, Logic, and other apps for graphic design and media post-production. Its resources are available to the entire Emory community. Staff assistance is provided during staffed hours. 

Emory Tech Lab 

Emory's central makerspace and emerging technologies lab, they provide 3D Printing and Modeling as well as access to a range of other digital and mechanical tools for making and creating.  

Marian K. Heilbrun Music and Media Library 

This branch of the Woodruff Library provides visual, sound, and print materials, and online resources. They also provide access to Sibelius Music Notation Software, an advanced music notation software program, which also allows score playback with high quality samples of real instruments.