Andrew W. Mellon Digital Humanities Fellows2019-2021 Andrew W. Mellon Digital Humanities Fellows
Education: BS, Susquehanna University, Ecology, 2013; MA, Bangor University, Medieval literature, 2016.
Bio: Alex is a fourth-year PhD student in English at the University of Rochester. He is also an operations coordinator at the Lazarus Project, which uses multispectral imaging and statistical processing software to digitally recover damaged manuscripts and cultural heritage objects. His current research focuses on ghosts, horror, and hermeneutics in the Middle Ages.
Education: B.A., Elmira College, English, 2009; M.F.A., California College of the Arts, Writing, 2011; M.A., University of Rochester, English, 2018.
Bio: Erin Francisco is a second-year Ph.D. student in the English Department at the University of Rochester. She studies nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature. Her research interests are grounded in the Environmental Humanities with a particular focus on back-to-the-land memoirs and critical discourse surrounding race, gender, and nature in both fiction and non-fiction narratives.
Education: M.A., University of Rochester, History, 2017; M.A., Villanova University, History, 2016; B.A., University of Rochester, History & Religion, 2014.
Bio: Daniel Gorman Jr. is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of Rochester.
Dan studies nineteenth- and twentieth-century religious and cultural history in the United States. His dissertation explores several investigations into Spiritualist mediums and their powers that were conducted between 1850 and 1930, to understand the cultural turmoil surrounding Spiritualism. In the digital realm, Dan is interested in online archives and oral history repositories, digital mapping, and documentary editing.
Education: BA, American University, Art History, 2014; MA, University of British Columbia, Art History and Theory, 2017
Bio: Madeline Ullrich is a third-year PhD student in the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester.
Maddie’s current research explores visual and narrative forms of female collectivity on television, to investigate how contemporary mainstream feminism imagines collectivity as its mode of subjectivity. Thinking through the televisual quality of seriality, her research explores how the concept of a female collective is constructed through visual and narrative paradigms of repetition, accumulation and standardization.
Currently, Maddie is working with the University of Rochester’s Digital Scholarship Lab on Mediate, a web-based platform that allows users to annotate and analyze time-based audiovisual media.