Guest Speaker: Marijeta Bozovic (Yale University), “Joseph Brodsky: Digital Humanities Lab”

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Location: Hesburgh Library Special Collections

Marijeta Bozovic is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University, and a specialist in Russian and Balkan literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She is also the Principle Investigator of the Beinecke Library’s Joseph Brodsky Digital Humanities Lab. The project aims to create an online platform to draw attention to the library’s extensive collection of Brodsky’s materials, to design research tools that will help navigate the matarials, and to make original scholarly contributions. In her guest lecture at the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Prof. Bozovic will share her experiences with this project and suggest potential applications of Digital Humanities tools and methodologies both in the library and in the classroom.