Digital humanities

Maintained by: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) Last modified: 2023-03-18T18:47:03+0000

Course projects

See also student projects from our newtFire sibling courses at the University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg and Penn State Erie, The Behrend College

Spring 2023

Ready to die - Notorious B.I.G. (1994) (GitHub): Rainier Acierto, Rebecca Benjamin, Mayah Mbangah
Themes in inaugural addresses (GitHub): Preetam Bhamidipati, Jack Gutch, Tai Shanahan
Examining grief and emotional response in Homer’s Iliad (GitHub): Nikhita Chakraborty, Meghan Hannum, Pamela Smith
Translating the untranslatable: comparative analysis of Qur’anic poetics (GitHub): MK Dryer, Austin Malone, Aisha Vallopra
Zhuangzi and Taoism (GitHub): Sam Browne, Hanwen Huang
Blues women: exploring social positions through song lyrics (GitHub): India Krug, Madelyn Miles, Claire Stemmer

Autumn 2022

War and peace in adaptation (GitHub): Ella Fosse, Madeline Leatherbarrow, Mikey Montoni
Portrayal of gender in The metamorphoses (GitHub): Ava (Shaoqing) Cai, Luciana De Jesus, Renee Dubaich
The agency of women in Sherlock Holmes (GitHub): Caroline McDonough, Sean Shmulevich, Alyssa Underwood, Rory Walsh
Letters from WWI soldiers (GitHub): Jacob Aluise, Allison Checkeye, Matthew McClenahan

Spring 2022

Russian media (GitHub [private]): Catherine Allison, Luke Gualtieri, Michelle McArthur, Autumn Rigot
Grimm fairy tale tone analysis (GitHub): Ben Adams, Samantha Allen, Sydni Canney. Emily Drzymalski
Revelations and Psalms (GitHub): Caelin Grambau, Frances Harrington, Feral Holt
Language of pain in Greek tragedy (GitHub): Cherina Cheng, Richa Desai, Alexis Franczyk, Vidya Surti

Autumn 2021

Federalist papers (GitHub): Patrick Carroll, Nate Frigoletto, Shane Moniot
Grimm fairy tales (GitHub): Victoria Costa, Regis Curtis, Darian McGinnis, Alexis Moffa
Hip-hop lyrics (GitHub): Ashley Choi, Camryn Dorney, Chris Markulin
Shakespearean insults (GitHub): Mason Gobat, Emily Martin, Naiya Odhner, Dillon Shuster

Spring 2021

Animal motifs in Norse popular tales (GitHub): Naomi Baig, Caleb Karsh, Jagr Krtanjek, Jeremy Tygh
Folk imagery of Natalia Lafourcade (GitHub): Joy Gimei, Grace Hutchinson. Autumn Moore
Hozier’s religious imagery (GitHub): Sarah Jacobson, Lauren Stanick
Inaugural addresses (GitHub): Grace Campbell, Elizabeth Rapkin, Edwin Rosenberg
Linguistic features of Emily Dickinson’s poetry (GitHub): Caroline Gish, Wyatt Nicholas, Rachel Wonder
Stalin’s letters to Molotov (GitHub): Peter Busscher, Hunter Casazza, Sara Lozito

Spring 2020

Clash of the two souls in Goethe’s Faust (GitHub): Rob Henry, Islam Farag, Danny Phan
Quantified dialogic discourse in Dostoevsky (GitHub): Kiun Hwang, Emma Schwarz
Songs of colonization (GitHub): Lilly Forrest, Maja Lynn, Evan Ressel
Soviet rock songs in Estonia and Leningrad (GitHub): Misha Barth, Crissy Shannon, Jack Sweeney
The Aeneid in translation (GitHub): Sarah Maenner, Kalan McDonald, Marion Riley
Van Gogh as a tortured genius (GitHub): Nate McDowell, Rachel Saula, Charlie Taylor, Colin Woelfel

Spring 2019

Such syntax, much meme: a linguistic analysis of memes and their structural syntax (GitHub): Kasey Busko, Rebekah Fox, Brenda Olivares
A comparative literary analysis of midrashic texts (GitHub): Thyra-Lilja Altunin, Ben Bavar, Samantha Watkins
Tracking language of catch and release in the poetical corpus of Edgar Allan Poe (GitHub): Matthew Borbonus, Kyle Huber, Ethan Moser
Detecting orientalism in Sherlock Holmes (GitHub): Kelly O’Donnell, Lauren Reese
Mapping Gulshani’s gazetteer of Bukhara (GitHub): Jonathan Engel, James Pickett
Gender analysis of Serbian women’s songs (GitHub): Daniel Daudinot, Mitchell Luckman, Emma Mamula

Spring 2018

Alice in Wonderland in translation [GitHub]: Emily Byron, Dana Kaufhold
Analysis of Russian presidential candidates [GitHub]: Richard Fulop, Ian Loughney, Matthew Murphy
Gender differences over time in Japanese and Korean speech [GitHub]: Paige Bruckner, Gina D’Amore
Use of rhetoric in magical realism: Rachel Bierly, Joseph Rogers, Daniel Schatten

Autumn 2017

90s Rap Project [GitHub]: Monica Felix, Wesley Ho
Portuguese WhatsApp [GitHub]: Tyler T. Bokan, Patrick Brooks, Brandon Rodgers

Spring 2017

Illustrious children [GitHub]: Katherine Mentecki, Emily Weiss
Immigration station [GitHub]: Zachary Enick, Eric Hue, Christopher Montgomery, Elaina Zachos
Networks in Chinese and Japanese poetry [GitHub]: Angela Klinger, Shaobai Xiong

Autumn 2016

Dante’s Inferno [GitHub]: Meghan Banerjee, Jessica Criswell, Emma Feyler, Nicole Myrie
Victorian ghost stories [GitHub]: Abigail Drabick, Gabrielle Keane, Kaylen Sanders, David Wade

Spring 2016

Game of thrones: Shannen Davis, Jeromine Quenee, Caitlin (Liliya) Riley
Jordanian Arabic: spoken grammar variations [GitHub]: Amber Montgomery
The Klingon Hamlet: Ryan Schroeder
Musicality of phrase: an analysis of five songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber: Allie Roos, Lauryn Thomas

Autumn 2015

An illuminating look at the syntax and Rowlingisms of Harry Potter across three languages: Rebecca Berland, Taylor Diken, Allison Hosinski
Language in Tarantino films: Olivia Bianchini, Abigail Chan
A portrait of St. Petersburg movie-goers [GitHub]: Tom Elvins, Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorova
Presidential speeches from 1789 to 2013 [GitHub]: Yi Ding
Twitter neologisms [GitHub]: Thomas McIntyre, JR

Spring 2015

The nonsensical Seuss: Kendra Guinness, Shawn Kurta, Jen Stevenson, Emma Thompson
Vittles, verses, and victory: A study of food and alliances in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The lord of the rings: Anjuli Das, Ashley Necciai, Rebecca Wallace
Anglicisms in French: Parlez-vous franglais? [GitHub]: Devra Gatling, Will Randall, Emmett Williams, Vicki Yuhas
The diachronic growth of Joey Bada$$ [GitHub]: Zack Barker, Ben Garfinkel, Paige Goulding

Autumn 2014

Contemporary folk music: Exploring relationships between themes across languages [GitHub]: Mako Ishikawa, Taylor Santos
Discovering protest music: Can we define it? [GitHub]: David Galloway, Leonidas Pashos, Katie Uihlein
Mapping medieval Galician-Portuguese literature and its networks [GitHub]: Helena Bermúdez Sabel, Lydia Keener
Write, reporter, write: Politics and language of Turkish rock music [GitHub]: Maura Adams, Alex Krongel, Steve Sloto

Spring 2014

Gawain’s ghost: Examination of cultural allusions in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight [GitHub]: Ryan Henderson, Phillip Ferguson
Google Translate divergences: Examining Harry Potter translations [GitHub]: Ethan Freer, Rebecca Lebens, Jessica Packer
The women of Boccaccio’s Decameron [GitHub]: Mia Bencivenga, Karla Lopez
U.S. presidential inaugural addresses: So help me God [GitHub]: Alex Burger, Alathia Campbell, Michael Pearsall
Waka of the Nara period: Exploring classical Japanese and representations of home life in Man'yoshu [GitHub]: Liyi Chen, Courtney Zelinsky

Autumn 2013

Aesop’s fables: Chloe Regan, Catherine Walsh, Reihana Wilson
Language in English civil war title pages: Simon Brown, Ariel Hammel, Anthony Verardi
Nationalism in Russian rap: Minas Abovyan, Kristina Miller, Andrew Nitz
The UNIT dating crisis: Investigating shipping choices in Doctor Who’s UNIT era: Rachel Folwarczny, Mara Katz
Twilight princess: Ashley Bakaitus, Eleanor Bennet, Daniel Brabender

Spring 2013

Digital archives and Pacific cultures: Elisa Beshero-Bondar, Greg Bondar, Megan Hughes, Scott Morgan
Gallic wars: Bryon Becker, Alex Scott
Names of Crime and punishment: Alexandra Brusilovsky, Olga Kim
RuNet: Exploring Russian Internet language: Jay Boehmer, Joe Petrich
The Alice project: Rachel Peters, Peter Webb
Twitter parody project: Devon Broglie, Kimaya Padgaonkar, Sung Wi
Yiddish theatre project: Eric Baldwin, Naomi Borreback

Autumn 2012

Akhmatova through the ages: Sam Depretis, Erin Harrington, Elise Thorsen
Exploring Homestuck: Kate Pigliacelli, Mary Zuzack
Past tense verb use in Jules Verne’s Vingt-mille lieues sous les mers: Elizabeth DeVito, Sean Stewart
The Milton project: Katelyn Antolik, John Eckhardt
Tongue twisters from around the world: Joel Blackman-Mathis, Brian Cusimano

Spring 2012

Die neuen Leiden des jungen W.: Brandon Wilson, Julia Yingling
Finnegans wake: Elliot Halpern, Mackenzie Shivery
Lotus sutra: literary features as teaching tools objective: Shipra Kumar, Samuel Suzuki
Russian secret tales: Valeria Pinchuk, Jean Romanowski
The O. Henry project: Cordelia Cayten, Margaret Norbeck, Sungmoon Woo
The book of Revelation and its imageries: Jenn Stampfel, Sebastien Xu

Autumn 2011

Finding the difference in innocence and experience: A comparison of mirroring poems in William Blake’s Songs of innocence and experience: Eva Jiang, Charles Mietzner
My immortal: Janis Chinn, Jacob Deitloff, Eric Gratta
Print media usage of marked features in Serbian and Croatian: Glyn Cozart, Diane Manovich
Tale of the trader and the jinni: Christopher Gursky
The canonization of digitial humanities through John Donne: Cynthia Wilson
Who paid the bill?: Rachel Asher