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
2019 - 2020 Digital Humanities Summer Fellow
Amanda Doxtater (she/her/hers)
The Muzzy Cigarette: A Videographic Look at Carl Th. Dreyer's "Gertrud" (1964)
“The Muzzy Cigarette,” is a videographic essay combining text from Stacey D’Erasmo’s study of textual intimacy with scenes from Gertrud (1964), by Danish director Carl Th. Dreyer (1889-1968). A digital epilogue to my monograph project, Carl Th. Dreyer’s Art-House Melodrama: Untoward Intimacies, this piece traces the productive tensions between melodrama and art cinema that persist throughout Dreyer’s oeuvre, questioning the schematic opposition between art cinema as estranging and melodrama as emotional over-identification.