barbarahui.net is my professional blog for posting material related to my research and work interests, including events I am attending, links to articles, and observations on things I might have stumbled across while trundling through LA on a given day.
My current work focuses on (post)modern and contemporary German- and English-language literature, geography and mapping, the Digital Humanities & media theory, and databases.
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Background
After getting my BA in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley in 1996, I was a computer programmer in the San Francisco bay area for over six years, where I specialized in database-driven web applications development.
Academics
I am currently a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at UCLA where I am completing my dissertation, entitled Narrative Networks: Mapping Literature at the Turn of the 21st
Century. My advisors are N. Katherine Hayles and Todd Presner.
I am also presently working as a systems developer on two Digital Humanities projects at UCLA: Timothy Tangherlini’s Danish Folklore Project, and Lisa Parkes’s Virtual Study Abroad Project. I have also worked extensively on Todd Presner’s Hypercities project.
The Litmap Project: Mapping Literature Digitally
In conjunction with my dissertation, I have developed Litmap, a browser-based application for digitally mapping literature. The goal has been to create a tool to be used alongside traditional methods of close reading in order to critically examine narratives in terms of their geospatiality. The “results” of this new reading methodology make up an integral part of my dissertation. Read more about the project here and here.
Contact
gmail: barbara.hui
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