Visualizing Caribbean Literature Website Launch!
Visualizing Caribbean Literature (VCL) is an interactive database of more than 3,000 literary works about the Caribbean experience or by writers identifying as Caribbean people.
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Create Caribbean Research Institute (CCRI) is pleased to announce the launch of its latest digital humanities project, Visualizing Caribbean Literature (VCL). VCL is an interactive database of more than 3,000 literary works about the Caribbean experience or by writers from the Caribbean from as early as the 1800s to the contemporary moment. The database includes authors and titles that represent the diversity of the body of work that is Caribbean literature in language, genre, author country of origin and publication location and institution. The project also represents works in translation from the authors included in the visualizations. VCL is a student-built project, a capstone assignment of the Research, Technology and Community (RTC) Internship at Create Caribbean Research Institute. We invite you to experience VCL as a learning, teaching and reading resource.
VCL is the product of a year-long labor of students in the RTC Internship program. These junior undergraduate students, guided by Dr. Schuyler Esprit, course instructor for Digital Humanities Research and the Founder and Director of CCRI, have done their best research with tools including WorldCat, Internet Archive, institutional library catalogs and databases, Zotero and other collaborative research tools. But this database is not exhaustive or foolproof. We, therefore, welcome reviewers who are scholars or experts on authors, eras or areas within Caribbean literary studies to review content and provide feedback to improve the quality of the database and to extend its impact to users in all capacities. Use the Call for Reviewers link to register.
Check out the website here!
Apply for the RTC Internship
The RTC Internship Program at Create Caribbean Research Institute is an academic enrichment initiative. Students will be exposed to the culture of academic research, digital humanities and community engagement. Interns receive the opportunity to collaborate, learn and practice their talents on projects of importance to the college community, national development and to build regional and international networks as students and scholars.
In order to be eligible, students must be enrolled at Dominica State College and commit approximately 10 hours per week during the regular semester and 20 hours per week for one month during the summer. During this time, students will work and learn in the practice-based research environment of the Institute.
Students will receive a stipend of US$400 per semester subject to satisfactory academic performance and program progress.
Interns who successfully complete the academic and service requirements of the program will be awarded a Certificate in Caribbean Digital Studies from Dominica State College.
Apply by completing the Application Form, Personal Statment and Academic Recommendation.
The deadline to apply for the RTC Internship is July 15, 2023.
Apply here today!
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