NMCC Graduate Emily McGinn (PhD in Comparative Literature) has been awarded a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities at Lafayette College where she will work with the library’s Digital Scholarship Services department to formulate policies, manage projects, and develop training to support an expanded and sustainable Digital Humanities (DH) program.  McGinn’s research during the NMCC program focused on the impact of recording technology on vanguard narrative form.

McGinn told us, “The academic job market in the humanities is always competitive and now, more than ever, the job listing are asking for someone who has a background in digital humanities. DH is such a new field that it can be difficult to discern which people have the actual skills required for these positions. The New Media and Culture Certificate has proven to be a crucial part of my resumé. It gave me the kind of credential people were looking for and provided me with the legitimacy I needed to set me apart from the competition in this increasingly crowded market.”

Congratulations, Emily!