The Digital Humanities Lab and the Digital Humanities Working Group hosted a talk by Miriam Posner, Program Coordinator of Digital Humanities at UCLA [1] on May 4 in the Hall of Graduate Studies. Posner holds a Ph.D. from Yale University in Film Studies and American Studies; her research interests include medical filmmaking and the way doctors have used film to make sense of the human body. Her talk was titled, "Fostering A DH Project within the American Studies Paradigm: Ways & Means."

If you’d like to know more, here’s [2] an interview with her in Figure/Ground, and here’s [3] a story in the Chronicle of Higher Education that features her teaching.