Final Project Presentations

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Our class period on Wednesday, April 27 will be devoted to quick presentations of your datasets in progress. In these presentations, you should describe your dataset (including the kind of data it contains, its boundaries/scope, and its metadata fields) and quickly contextualize this dataset in relation to other existing scholarly datasets, the questions it allows researchers to answer, gaps in existing fields, etc. In brief, your presentation should answer the following 3 questions: 1) What is this dataset?; 2) How are you collecting it?; 3) Why is it significant?

If you are working on your final project individually, your presentation should be about 5 minutes long (I will warn you at 5 minutes and cut you off at 6 minutes). If you are working on your final project with others, talk to me in advance about the length of your presentation and its content, as team presentations may need more time. Please upload any slides to the “Final Project Presentations” folder in our class Google drive folder.

Schedule of Presentations

Presentations will proceed in the order outlined below. Each group will be followed by a discussion/Q&A period.

Group 1: Early Modern Witches, Women, and Other Wonders

• Vanessa Barcelos, “Skepticism to magic and witchcraft in print from the 16th to the 17th century”
• Hyekyung Jung, “Wandering Women: Women’s Travels in the Early Modern Literature”
• Claire Richie and Kate Albrecht, “Early Modern Care”
• Katie Sanford, “Early Modern Accounts of the Strange and Monstrous”

Group 2: From the 19th Century to the 1990s (and beyond)

• Alison McCann, “Letters from Liberia: Black Colonization in the Early 19th Century”
• Rachel Northrop, “1970s Bibliography of American Books”
• Diona Espinosa, “Cuban Documentary Filmmaking Archive and Database”

Group 3: Contemporary Culture, As Seen On Social Media

• Micaela Donabella, “‘Cyborg’ in Popular Criticism & Short-form Fiction”
• Yasamin Rezaei, “#Me_too_iran: Tweets from #metoo movement in Iran and Persian Sphere of Twitter”
• Savannah Saavedra, “Following Activism through Social Media in Latin America”
• Michael Soriano, “Binge-watching, Audience Participation, and Effects on the Body”