Digital Humanities Across the Curriculum
My colleagues and I at St. Francis College received an NEH Grant for 2022-2024, “Digital Humanities Across the Curriculum.” Dr. Athena Devlin, Chair of Literature, Writing, & Publishing and Associate Professor of English, and Dr. Emily Edwards, Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and Educational Technologist, are co-directing and implementing the grant with me with the help of many St. Francis colleagues.
Exhibitions at St. Francis College
Before we moved to our new campus in 2022, I helped facilitate exhibitions with Dr. Augusta Palmer, Chair of Communications and Associate Professor of Communications, and Dr. Alison Dell, Chair of Biology and Associate Professor of Biology and Interdisciplinary Studies. Katherine Gressel curated Environmental Empathies in 2019. The photo below shows artist Mary Mattingly’s Soil Library on display in the Environmental Empathies exhibition. You can read about it in Alison Dell and Mary Mattingly’s Public Art Dialogue article “Soil Narratives: Toward a Symbiotic Art-Science Activism.”
Today, on our new Livingston Street campus, Gallery Director and Lecturer, Bianca Mońa, curates exhibitions in the SFC gallery and library.
Art of Social Change
I developed the class Art of Social Change in 2013. I’ve taught the class several different ways, including as a history of art of social change and as a class that revolves around visiting exhibitions, art spaces, and archives around the city. I often take the class to Interference Archive (the photo below shows a class trip to Interference Archive in Fall 2014). In more recent years, we’ve also enjoyed visiting the nearby Benny Andrews Estate.
Students and Faculty in the Archives (SAFA)
I participated in this wonderful collaboration with the Brooklyn Historical Society (now the Center for Brooklyn History) from 2011-2013 with colleagues at St. Francis and at other neighboring schools in downtown Brooklyn. Here’s a site, teacharchives.org, that records some of what we did. (The photo below is from a trip to the Brooklyn Historical Society archives with a first year Honors seminar, Civil War Past & Present, in 2012)
