Digital Humanities Summer Fellowships

scholars in the fellowship program having a lively discussion at the conference table

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.

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2025 - 2026 Digital Humanities Summer Fellows

Paul Atkins
Professor
Asian Languages & Literature
Adrienne Mackey
Assistant Professor
School of Drama
Anna Preus
Assistant Professor
English
Mark Letteney
Assistant Professor
History
Rhema Hokama
Assistant Professor
English
Runjie Wang
Graduate Student
Cinema & Media Studies
Siddharth Bhogra
Graduate Student
English
Sikose Sibabalwe Mjali
Graduate Student
English
Herman Chau
Doctoral Candidate
Mathematics
Nikki Yeboah
Assistant Professor
School of Drama

2019 - 2020 Digital Humanities Summer Fellow

A black and white portrait of Leila Kate Norako

Leila Kate Norako (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor

Richard Coer de Lyon: A Medieval Multi-text

This project will provide open access critical editions of all manuscript witnesses of the late medieval romance, Richard Coer de Lyon. Not only will this enrich and advance scholarship on this important late medieval text and its complicated manuscript history, the project will serve as a model for future digital editions of medieval "multi-texts" (i.e. texts that share the same general contours across versions but that still contain significant variations).