The Augmented Palimpsest

I am currently engaged in a digital humanities project, The Augmented Palimpsest, with my colleague, Tamara O’Callaghan at Northern Kentucky University. This project, funded by an NEH Digital Humanities Start-up Grant, is a digital humanities tool that explores how the medium of Augmented Reality (AR) can be used in teaching medieval literature. Using Chaucer’s General Prologue, the tool will deliver digital enhancements that emerge from the printed page via a smart device. They will provide the reader with linguistic, historical, and cultural contexts, thus giving students greater access to medieval material culture and history. The digital content will include 3D models of medieval artifacts and architecture, large and complex enough to be walked around and viewed from multiple angles. Because the enhancements emerge from the printed page, the tool will maintain a pedagogical emphasis on close reading while encouraging students to develop their skills in textual analysis, critical thinking, interdisciplinary study, and new media literacy. It will improve the reader’s comprehension of the text by preserving the physical and kinesthetic connection to the text.

Augmented Palimpsest Blog

Publications

"Virgin's End:The Suppression of the York Marian Pageants." Medieval Feminist Forum (Forthcoming Summer 2014)

“Hyperprint Texts and the Teaching of Medieval Literature” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching. Andrea Harbin and Tamara O’Callaghan (Forthcoming Fall 2014)

“Wiki’d (inter)discipline:The Use of Wikis in the Medieval Literature Classroom” The Once and Future Classroom XI (2) (Fall 2013) web.

“Podcasting and Pedagogy” The Once and Future Classroom VIII(2) (Fall 2010) web.

“The Citizens of York and the Archetypal Christian Journey: Pilgrimage and Ritual in the York Cycle.” Medieval Perspectives XIV (1999): 84-98

“Review of Sacred Players” Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England. 22 (2009): 267-70. Solicited book review