diff --git a/_pages/about.md b/_pages/about.md index 120688f..95fab97 100644 --- a/_pages/about.md +++ b/_pages/about.md @@ -2,25 +2,27 @@ layout: about title: about permalink: / -subtitle: Affiliations. Address. Contacts. Moto. Etc. +subtitle: Assistant Research Professor of Digital Scholarship profile: align: right image: prof_pic.jpg image_circular: false # crops the image to make it circular - more_info: > -

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+ more_info: news: true # includes a list of news items -latest_posts: true # includes a list of the newest posts +latest_posts: false # includes a list of the newest posts selected_papers: true # includes a list of papers marked as "selected={true}" social: true # includes social icons at the bottom of the page --- +Dr. Jennifer Isasi is an Assistant Research Professor of Digital Scholarship at The Pennsylvania State University. She is the Assistant Director of the [Office of Digital Pedagogies and Initiatives](https://digital.la.psu.edu) and Director of the Digital Liberal Arts Research Initiative. This position establishes a research support hub to articulate and integrate digital research in projects in the humanities and social sciences. She also collaborates with the [Center for Black Digital Research](https://digblk.psu.edu) at PSU Libraries to organize hybrid events, provide training, and assist with [Douglass Day](https://douglassday.org). -Write your biography here. Tell the world about yourself. Link to your favorite [subreddit](http://reddit.com). You can put a picture in, too. The code is already in, just name your picture `prof_pic.jpg` and put it in the `img/` folder. +Jennifer is also a member of the editorial board of the open access journal *[Programming Historian](https://programminghistorian.org)*, where she currently serves as the Managing Editor of *Programming Historian en español* with editing, translations and original lessons. Driven by her willingness to learn more skills on website creation and management, Jennifer is also a member of the Technical Team. -Put your address / P.O. box / other info right below your picture. You can also disable any of these elements by editing `profile` property of the YAML header of your `_pages/about.md`. Edit `_bibliography/papers.bib` and Jekyll will render your [publications page](/al-folio/publications/) automatically. +Prior to her position at PSU, she was a [CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation in Latin American and Latino/a Studies](https://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/fellowsupdate/) at the University of Texas Libraries, where she contributed to *collections as data* efforts, educational resources, and digital scholarship initiatives at [LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections](https://llilasbenson.utexas.edu/). She also worked with academic engagement staff, affiliated faculty, the post-custodial archival team, and partners in the United States and Latin America to develop curated data sets, open-access resources that support scholarly and public engagement with digital materials, and to inform the development of forthcoming digital collections. -Link to your social media connections, too. This theme is set up to use [Font Awesome icons](https://fontawesome.com/) and [Academicons](https://jpswalsh.github.io/academicons/), like the ones below. Add your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Scholar, or just disable all of them. +Isasi holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies with a specialization in Digital Humanities from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. Her dissertation "Data Mining Possibilities for the Analysis of the Literary Character in the Spanish Novel: The Case of Galdós and the *Episodios nacionales*" (written in Spanish) establishes a computational reading methodology to extract, analyze and visualize literary character-systems or social networks, noting how they reflect novel genres and degrees of historicity that replicate close readings of the novels. + +In Nebraska she collaborated as a metadata archivist and researcher in the digital project *[Family Letters](https://familyletters.unl.edu)* and she co-organized the monthly *DH Dialogues* with her peers in the Digital Humanities Student Association. And she taught Spanish, Analysis of Communication, and Culture as a teaching assistant for the Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures at UNL and a lecturer at UNK. + +She has a BA in English Philology (2011) from the University of Deusto-Bilbao (Spain), a MA in Hispanic Studies (2013) and a Certificate in Digital Humanities (2015) from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA), and a Certificate on Professional Qualification on Digital Humanities (2015) from the National University of Distance Education (Spain).