On or about December 2013, Davidson College unfolded “Davidson Domains,” an initiative that “allows students, faculty, and staff to register their own domain name and associate it with a hosted web space, free of charge while at Davidson College. With their Domain and corresponding web space, users… have the opportunity and flexibility to design and create a meaningful and vibrant digital presence.” I wrote a blog post about some inspiring student projects, and you can find a chronological list of examples below.
Since 1999, well before Davidson Domains, students have been contributing to the ongoing development of the Index of Modernist Magazines, which today is hosted on my domain. To encourage students to take advantage of their own domains, I’ve begun to assign more digital projects, with groundbreaking results. Here is a sampling of student work, all of which should be pretty self-explanatory, thanks to good UX design.
ENG 394: Avant-Garde (Fall 2017)
These projects are digital scholarly and/or teaching resources on avant-garde artists and writers.
- Meredith Foulke and Ellie Rifkin, Sleeping with the Dictionary: an online resource for teaching Harryette Mullen’s Sleeping With the Dictionary
- Sarah Gompper and Maura Tangum, Reviving Frances Simpson Stevens
- Royce Chen and Erin Piemont, A Step Away from Frank O’Hara: resources & annotations
- Leigha Nortier and Bean Rodriguez, Picabia and Buffet: An Avant-Garde Affair
- Abbey Corcoran and Grady Pearson, Dear Evie Shockley: responding to the new black
Davidson Collaboratory (Fall 2017, team-taught with Dr. Shelley Rigger)
These collaborative projects, created by first-semester first-year undergraduates, use Knight Lab’s storytelling tools, JS Timeline and JS StoryMap.
- Anna McGuire and Maria Rodriguez, “Women in the Meiji Restoration”
- Hanaa Aldasouqi and Chloe Pitkoff, “The Changing Fashions of Meiji and Taisho Era Japan”
- Henry Meza Flores, Cole Moore, Jeffrey Peng, and Lucas Tanaka, “First Sino-Japanese War“
- Anna McGuire, Alan Morales Loyola, Daniel Thomas, and Nina Yao, “Civil Rights During and After the Russian Revolution“
- Hanaa Aldasouqi, Wiley Baskin, and Cole Moore, “Enemies in the Russian Revolution“
- Ellie Enichen, Raven Hudson, Henry Meza Flores, and Lucas Tanaka, “Health and Healthcare in Revolutionary Russia“
- Wilbert Garcia, Jeffrey Peng, Chloe Pitkoff, and Maria Rodriguez, “Collectivization“
ENG 294: The Harlem Renaissance (Spring 2017)
- Lauren Crane and Hannah Junghacked WordPress to create an interactive globe to track Claude McKay’s movements around the world in relation to his writings: Claude McKay: The FBI’s Globetrotter of the Harlem Renaissance
- Casey Margerum built a multimedia website, Sight and Sound, to demonstrate the importance of dialect in Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Charlie Goldberg and Erin Golden created Schuyler’s Economic Allegory to publish their interdisciplinary research on the economic validity and contemporary relevance of George Schuyler’s 1931 satire, Black No More.
- Kaiya Carter created a Neatline Exhibit on The Economics of Race in George Schuyler’s Black No More to analyze the way Schuyler’s narrative moves around geographically in order to deliver its critique of race as economic and political currency.
ENG 373: Terrible Beauty: Yeats & Modern Poetry (Fall 2016)
These works of digital scholarship on modern poetry are hosted on Davidson Domains.
- Leah Mell, a digital remediation and exploration of Mina Loy’s Songs to Joannes
- Emma Cardwell, Women Rebels: Mina Loy, Margaret Sanger & Birth Control
- George Law, Linton Kwesi Johnson: An homage to the Jamaican-British dub poet
- Isabelle Sakelaris, Auden and Abstract Expressionism (an experiment with Poemage)
ENG 473: Picturing Texts, Making Media (Fall 2016)
- Catie, Ryan, Blaire, Emma, Elise, and Gabriella, 360ing Miss Thing (Nicki Minaj and VR 360)
- Emi Moore, Majo Arias, London Judge, Phillip Bader, and Josephine Cannell, Embracing Henry: Empathy in the Virtual Reality Born Short
ENG 393: Word-Art (Spring 2016)
- Ela Hefler, Killed Negatives: A Photo Essay
- Aly Dove, Stephen Pacheco, Annie Sadler, Remixing the Hack: a public hack of Kenrick Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly” & Nayyirah Waheed’s Salt
ENG 486: Modernism, Magazines & Media (Fall 2015)
- Nathan Argueta, Peter Bowman, Leigh Chandler, Audrey Lane, Wade Morgan, Andrew Rikard, and Rachel Wiltshire created a WordPress website dedicated to the Harlem Renaissance author Georgia Douglas Johnson.
- Scott Cunningham, Ryan Emerick, Eliana Ferreri, Sophia Guevara, and Hannah Grace Heartfield researched and wrote an article on “The Politics of Precisionism: Machine Art in the New Masses,” which they published on Atavist.com.