Getting started with your own idea can be the hardest part! Here are some initial places to explore for inspiration.
- Check out our podcast discussions with Filipa Calado and Kalle Westerling on their perspectives as GC students/alumi working through/having completed digital dissertation projects
- GCDI’s Dissertation Futures roundtable recording offers perspectives from recent PhDs and faculty in the digital dissertation space
- Explore what other GC students have submitted via our list of example projects as well as the library’s repository of digital dissertations and capstone projects (please note: not all submitted digital projects are included in either list)
- Interested in creating a digital edition or OER? Review previous CUNY Manifold projects. You might also reach out to the GC’s own Manifold Team for more information.
- Dig into the many articles and collections that discuss relevant projects: Shaping the Digital Dissertation (Open Book Publishers, 2021) focuses on solely on dissertation work. The Debates in the Digital Humanities series, American Quarterly’s Special Issue: Toward a Critically Engaged Digital Practice: American Studies and the Digital Humanities, and the Beyond the Dissertation as Proto-Monograph: Examples and Reflections MediaCommons project include digital scholarly work at all levels and cover a wide range of topics. Jojo Karlin’s article “Our Digital Literary Legacy: Producing and Preserving Digital Dissertations in English” would be particularly useful for digital humanities and English students.
- Explore the Next-Generation Dissertations site–a broad reaching digital dissertations resource that includes project examples, resources and guides, and is future thinking (i.e.using your project to launch a career inside and beyond academia). The Futures Initiative’s recording of the “HASTAC Digital Fridays: Next-Generation Dissertations” is a useful accompaniment to the site.
- The Futures Initiative’s 2014 #remixthediss event, and the subsequent HASTAC 2015 “Transforming the Dissertation: Models, Questions, and Next Steps” conference panel are important early digital dissertation discussions to familiarize yourself with. And, the collection of relevant projects compiled following the 2014 #remixthediss event provides additional examples not covered in the recordings.
- It is highly recommended that you schedule a meeting with GC digital scholarship librarians Roxanne Shirazi and/or Stephen Zweibel early on — not doing this sooner is the biggest regret we’ve heard from dissertating students/alum! They have a wealth of knowledge on planning projects and previous work.
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