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
2020 - 2021 Digital Humanities Summer Fellow
Ying-Hsiu Chou (she/her/hers)
Deconstructing the Construction: The Female Images in Chinese Detective Films, 2010-2020
Deconstructing the Construction: The Female Images in Chinese Detective Films, 2010-2020 is a series of video essays exploring the image of women in the most popular and influential Chinese detective films across China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in the recent decade. It centers critical feminist praxis to make an ethnographic inquiry into Chinese cinema through videographic criticism. By creating non-linear narration, ramified viewpoints, and associative thoughts, my work hopes to jar people into thinking about the female images in the Chinese detective film in new ways.