In preparation for a trip out of town for pre-move business, I spent last week tearing down and rebuilding the slides I’m intending to present at next week’s GCDI Showcase. The kicker is that because I am out of town this week, Natalia is stepping in to present the dress rehearsal tomorrow. Meanwhile, I am turning my attention to the final report and my personal reflection.

For now, we’ve got everything in place on the site, we’ve taken feedback and improved things, and while there’s still more small tidying up to do for consistency across entries, we’re ready for prime time. It has been incredibly gratifying to see the Voces del Lunfardo project develop from conception to some state of done. I hope we have achieved something of a shared vision and that the site serves its target audience well!

Since this is my final post of the class, and probably for this DH program, let me also reflect a bit on my experience so far.

When I started this Digital Humanities program, I had a sense that I wanted to better contextualize the work I’m already doing professionally by working in adjacent spaces, namely the humanities. I have long maintained a broad interest in literature, history, languages, and art, and I have developed interests in archives, libraries, pedagogy, information architectures, and other means of knowledge production, preservation, and transmission. Except for libraries, specifically digital libraries, and information architectures, I am less confident about my depth of knowledge in any of these domains. I saw this program, via in-degree and free electives, as a means of deepening my experience with some or all of these other domains with an eye toward finding my own unique question to ask and explore through an eventual capstone.

Over two semesters, I have gotten a mere taste, and I lament both that I am probably going to have to find another program, and that I hadn’t pursued more humanities scholarship prior to this point. While I don’t feel closer to having a question of my own, I am nevertheless grateful to have taken part, even briefly, in exploring everyone else’s questions. I hope I get the chance to work with any or all of you again in the future, whether I’m able to continue this program or not.