Digital Humanities Summer Fellowships
The Simpson Center offers annual summer fellowships for faculty and graduate students to pursue research projects that use digital technologies in innovative and intensive ways and/or explore the historical, social, aesthetic, and cross-cultural implications of digital cultures. The program has three primary goals:
- To animate knowledge—using rich media, dynamic databases, and visualization tools
- To circulate knowledge—among diverse publics
- To understand digital culture—historically, theoretically, aesthetically, and generatively
The Simpson Center gratefully acknowledges the support of a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as well as many donors to the endowment which is underwriting these fellowships.
2025 - 2026 Digital Humanities Summer Fellows
2022 - 2023 Digital Humanities Summer Fellow
Anna Preus (she/her/hers)
Publishing Empire: Colonial Authorship and British Literary Production, 1900-1940
Publishing Empire considers how authors from areas colonized by Britain navigated the complex publishing culture in late imperial England and examines how these authors' books contributed to constructions of colonial authorship taking shape before the Second World War. Drawing on book historical and digital methods, the project looks closely at the material forms of individual texts by Rabindranath Tagore, Claude McKay, Sarojini Naidu, William Plomer, and C.L.R. James, and it also examines publishing information for over 1,200 English-language books by authors from South Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean who published in England during the first four decades of the 20th century.