Discover more about digital and computational projects happening in the Faculty of Arts at UBC.
Mapping Polyrhythm: Digital Musicology Scholars Share Research through an Online Database
Interviewed and edited by Helen Wu Ève Poudrier is an assistant professor of music theory at UBC School of Music. Her recent projects include the Polyrhythm Project, a collaborative work focusing on the human experience of complex musical rhythms, how people perceive and understand “polyrhythm,” the superposition of rhythms that are not simple manifestations of the […]
Scholars at the 2025 Arts ISIT Conference Rethink Research in the Digital Age
Reported by Helen Wu At the 2025 Arts ISIT Welcome Back Conference, Arts faculty members, staff, and instructional assistants gathered to share insights on technology topics and digital tools ahead of the new academic year. Concluding the first day, four scholars from the Faculty of Arts joined a panel moderated by Christine D’Onofrio, director of […]
TEI Summer Sessions Build a Hub for Text Encoders
Written by Helen Wu I was waiting for the elevator on the 7th floor of Harbour Centre at SFU after a four-hour, info-packed session on encoding entities using TEI-XML when UBC English professor Mary Chapman approached me with a refreshed and excited energy. Her ongoing research project on the Eaton family had been featured previously […]
Siobhán McElduff Traces Classical Roots in Irish Love Ballads through TEI-XML
Interviewed and written by Helen Wu Siobhán McElduff, an Associate Professor of Latin literature and Roman culture at the University of British Columbia, pursued a Master of Philosophy in Digital Humanities and Culture at Trinity College Dublin last year and is now working on digitizing cheap 18th and 19th century Irish ballads and the catalogues […]
Digitizing Political History: Arturo Victoriano-Martinez and Zohra Faqiri Trace Dominican Turmoil Through Unión Cívica
Interviewed and written by Helen Wu When Ramón (Arturo) Antonio Victoriano-Martinez was researching 1960s novels and poetry books in the Dominican Republic, he visited second-hand bookstores that specialized in old editions. In a garage bookstore on the outskirts of Santo Domingo, he stumbled upon a stack of aging newspapers—an unexpected discovery that sparked a major […]
Digitization helped literary scholars uncover works by Chinese Canadian women writers
Interviewed by Helen Wu As a research assistant, Sydney Lines began her collaboration with Mary Chapman, a professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at UBC, with the Winnifred Eaton Archive which has since expanded to other projects, including an exhibition on Chinese diaspora in Montreal. Much of their work focuses on the […]
Exploring Digital and Computational Scholarship Together
Highlights from DiSA’s Inaugural Faculty of Arts Graduate Student Showcase at UBC Report by Helen Wu Have you ever exchanged digital research tips with a friend and walked away inspired? On April 11, 2025, the Digital Scholarship in Arts (DiSA) team at the University of British Columbia offered that very opportunity—on a much larger scale. […]
Dr. Henry Siu on the role of computational methods for a safe economic reopening during the COVID-19 public health emergency
Dr. Henry Siu, a professor at the UBC Vancouver School of Economics specializing in macroeconomics, discusses the role of digital scholarship in economic research. In addition to providing insights on the Vancouver School of Economics’ COVID-19 Risk/Reward Assessment Tool—a project that helped inform policymakers on economic reopening strategies during the pandemic—Siu also shares his perspective on the educational role of machine learning and AI for both students and professionals, emphasizing how these technologies can make digital scholarship more accessible to all.