Program Director: Alice McGrath (Senior Digital Scholarship Specialist)
Faculty Fellow and Project Director: José Vergara (Associate Professor of Russian)
The is a paid summer internship opportunity for Bryn Mawr undergraduate students to learn digital research and publication skills and gain professional experience by collaborating on public-facing digital scholarship projects. Fellows explore key issues and methods in digital scholarship, critical making, and multi-modal research through a combination of hands-on work, instruction, and discussion (view a ). Fellows also have opportunities to visit local organizations, learn about careers in libraries and digital research, and present their work publicly. The program begins with a two-week intensive training, where students build skills in web design and development, data management and visualization, mapping, digital publishing, critical AI, and machine learning. For the remaining six weeks, students collaborate on a digital scholarship project. The program culminates in a public-facing presentation showcasing each fellow’s work.
Project: Paul Thomas Annotated: In the Margins
is an open access digital scholarship project devoted to the filmography of Paul Thomas Anderson. The project involves annotating, scene by scene, screenshots from each of his ten narrative films to date (Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood, The Master, Inherent Vice, Phantom Thread, Licorice Pizza, One Battle After Another), with the aim of making PTA’s films more accessible to audiences including scholars, students, filmmakers, fans, and casual viewers. Annotations address the many parts of these films: mise-en-scène, dialogue, camerawork, character, intertextuality, intratextuality, narrative, and other analytical and aesthetic elements. Each image includes metadata that allows readers to sort and filter images according to visual and thematic terms. Joining the project this summer, Digital Scholarship Summer Fellows will take part in the ongoing research, annotation, and metadata creation work and also create supplementary content for the website, including data visualizations, exhibits, and features related to these films.
Our work this summer will include:
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Designing and building data visualizations that use our data sets (screenshots and metadata) and complementary sources to represent such elements of PTA’s films as color palettes and collaborators with whom he repeatedly works
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Exploring computer vision technologies and how they can be used to enhance our metadata and study and analyze films
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Creating narrative and visual digital essays that make use of the screenshots/metadata, as well as other materials (e.g., books and ephemera featured in the films), to analyze individual films or to draw connections across the filmography
Fellows will build skills in many areas, including:
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Web design, development, and publishing using GitHub, Jekyll, and a variety of digital scholarship tools
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Programming with python, using the command line, and a variety of open-source tools
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Data management and visualization
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Digital collections, metadata, and IIIF tools
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Critical AI competencies and computer vision
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Articulating and reflecting on digital competencies
All students are welcome to apply, regardless of major or experience with digital scholarship, web publishing, or coding. We particularly encourage applications from students who are Black, Indigenous, people of color, or from other underrepresented groups.
Review of applications will begin Friday, March 6, and continue until all positions are filled.
Job requirements
Work for this position will be conducted on campus, primarily in Carpenter Library.
Students will be expected to:
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Work and attend meetings in-person, collaborating actively with others
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Learn and troubleshoot various technologies
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Follow project guidelines and instructions with attention to detail
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Communicate effectively with teammates and supervisors about their work
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Pursue work independently as needed, making consistent, organized effort over time
Successful applicants will possess:
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Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
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Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills
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Interest in learning and experimenting with digital tools and methods
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Interest in cinema studies or visual culture analysis
Preferred qualifications:
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Interest in digital scholarship, digital humanities or other relevant areas (web publishing, graphic/web design, project management, critical digital studies, library careers, digital collections, data science, computer vision/machine learning, AI, open-source software development, etc.)
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While we do not expect all applicants to posess these skill, we hope to hire a cohort of students that includes individuals with these strengths:
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Experience or familiarity with humanities research, film/narrative/visual culture analysis
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Experience with programming, web development, or data analysis
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Experience with or interest in exploring technology from a critical lens
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Application instructions
To apply, fill out and submit your resume. The application consists of several short questions as well as two longer answer questions, which are as follows:
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What interests you about this position? How does it fit in with your goals?
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What would you bring to this position? Please describe any relevant skills, interests, areas of knowledge, or other information about why your background makes you a good fit with the program.
Apply by Monday, March 23 for full consideration.
Learn more about the program and past cohorts and projects on the . Please contact