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Grand Re-Opening: CHDR's New Research Lab Debuts at UCF

On September 20, 2024, UCF's Center for Humanities and Digital Research hosted a grand re-opening of its new research lab, complete with cutting-edge tools for conducting vital digital humanities work. Also serving as the opening of the FLDH 10 conference, the event featured remarks from Bruce Janz, Co-Director, CHDR; Jeffrey Moore, Dean, College of Arts and Humanities; Rachel Vacek, Associate Dean for Digital Strategies, Impact, & Visibility, UCF Libraries; and Alexander N. Cartwright, President, University of Central Florida. The delivered remarks were recorded and can be viewed on YouTube.

The CHDR lab was realized through an Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Online

This project will create an online edition of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language (including both 1st [1755] and 4th [1773] folio print editions) with functionality comparable to other modern, scholarly dictionaries. During the 18th and 19th centuries, Johnson’s Dictionary was the most comprehensive and influential English-language dictionary in the world. Although attempts have been made to digitize the Dictionary, these are now out of date or incomplete. Our goal is to make Johnson’s original text easy to use and to study, providing significant, long-term benefit to researchers, educators, and those involved in public programming in the humanities.

Dr. Beth Rapp Young (Associate Professor, English), Dr. Carmen Faye Mathes (Assistant Professor, English), and Dr. Amy Larner Giroux (Associate Director, Center for Humanities and Digital Research).

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The Florida Review

The Florida Review publishes exciting literary work from around the world from writers both emerging and well known. We are not Florida-exclusive, though we acknowledge having a jungle mentality and a preference for grit, and we have provided and continue to offer a home for many Florida writers. We have been in more or less continuous semi-annual print publication since 1975 and in 2017 added a new literary supplement in Aquifer: The Florida Review Online, which features new literary works on a weekly basis, as well as author interviews, book reviews, digital storytelling, visual arts, and short film.

Editor & Director, Dr. Jamie Poissant (Associate Professor, English); Managing Editor, Dr. Mike Shier (Research Specialist, Center for Humanities and Digital Research).