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PhD in Hispanic Studies

• Dissertation title “Posibilidades de la minería de datos digital para el análisis del personaje literario en la novela española. El caso de Galdós y los Episodios nacionales.”
• Supervised by Dr. Óscar Pereira Zazo

Graduate Certificate on Digital Humanities

Certificate on Professional Qualification on Digital Humanities

M.A. in Hispanic Studies

B.A. in English Philology

Certificate on Modern Languages and Technologies

Assistant Research Professor of Digital Scholarship and Director of the Digital Liberal Arts Research Initiative and Assistant Director of the Office of Digital Pedagogy and Scholarship

Main Editor and Junior Technical Team Member

• Past Communications Manager

CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Latin American and Latina/o Studies

Summer Visiting Instructor of Spanish

Lecturer of Spanish

Graduate Research Assistant

Summer Visiting Instructor of Spanish

Instructor of Record, Graduate Teaching Assistant of Spanish

The Programming Historian en español

• Member of the Editorial Team in Spanish, the Technical Team and the Editorial Board. Editor and translator of peer-reviewed tutorials on digital tools, techniques, and workflows that facilitate research and teaching.

Family Letters. Cartas a la familia and Hispanic-Latino Heritage Collection

• Metadata Curator and Research Assistant. Directed by Dr. Isabel Velázquez

Modernist Text Digitization Project

• Archivist and Metadata Curator. Directed by Dr. José Eduardo González, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

• Best DH Training Materials category of the DH Awards for Programming Historian

• Capacity Assessment of Latin American and Caribbean Partners. A Symposium about Open- Access, Technological Needs, and Institutional Sustainability, Mellon funded Council on Library and Information Resources Microgrant. Award $25,000
• Open Content category award in the Open Publishing Award 2021 by the Coko Foundation for Programming Historian
• Acknowledgment on The Crymble Awards

• Mejor iniciativa formativa desarrollada durante el año 2018, I Edición de los Premios HDH, Asociación de Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas

• Best DH Blog Post or Series of Posts of the DH Awards for Programming Historian

• “La oficina de Digital Liberal Arts en Penn State. P&R con Jennifer Isasi y Sara Arribas.” Laboratorio de Humanidades Digitales del Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo (ILC) at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain, June 25.
• “La justicia lingüística en las Humanidades Digitales (una mirada).” Justifica lingüística ¿Por qué es urgente su discusión para las humanidades, artes y culturas?, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina, April 30.
• “An Exploratory Data Analysis of Space in Spanish-Language Literature.“ With Dr. Joshua Ortiz Baco, at DIGIT 210 Text Analysis taught by Dr. Elisa Beshero-Bondar, Penn State Behrend, PA, Feb 28

• “Recovering, Analyzing and Circulating (Audio)Culture through Digital Methods.“ An Introduction for RSA. Rhetorical Studies Association Summer Institute, State College, PA, May 25-27

• “De leer novelas a modelar datos sobre productos culturales, trayectorias varias por las Humanidades Digitales.“ Keynote speaker at the Fifth Conference of the Argentinian DH Association, Füskü Menuko, Argentina, November 17
• “Programming Historian, A Collaborative Project to Put Programming within the Reach of Humanists“. Talk for the Language Technologies and Ontologies course at the University of Mondragón, Spain, November 14

• “Your Text Analysis is Fantastic, but I Can’t Replicate it in Spanish, Let Me Take a Few Steps Back to Learn/Teach Methods for a Less Prominent Language.“ DH@UVA Speaker Series, VA, Dec 1
• “Programming Historian. Un proyecto colaborativo para poner la programación al alcance de los humanistas” with Dr. Riva Quiroga. Webinarios de la red INTELE-Infraestructura de Tecnologías del Lenguaje, Spain, March 25

• “A pilot experiment for multilingual DH contexts. Sentiment Analysis in Translation.” New Voices in DH at the OU Humanities Forum, Oklahoma City, OK, Oct. 22-23

• “A Name Entity Recognition and Extraction Method for Mid-Distance Reading in Spanish“ Digital Humanities Beyond Modern English, Computational Approaches to Premodern and Non-Western Literature, Part I, Hanover, NH, April 24-25

• “Towards a Methodology for the Analysis of Character Systems/Networks in the Spanish Novel, The case of Pérez Galdós’ Zumalacárregui and Mendizábal.” Works in Progress & DH Dialogues, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, September 18

• “Enhancing Programming Historian Multilingual Reach. Creating a Semi-Automated Multilingual DH Vocabulary Table” with M. Gille Levenson, C. Ringwald, M. Flesch, S. Papastamkou, R. Quiroga and D. Valentine at ACH2024, USA, online, November 6
• “Missions Accomplished? The Future of Mission-Driven Digital Scholarship Journals in DH” panel organizer and presenter with Z. LeBlanc, B. Walsh, A. Gil, W. Pérez Martínez, R. Koeser, G. Wythoff at DH2024, Washington DC, August 6-9
• “Challenges in Exploratory Data Analysis. Space in Spanish-Language Literature Workshop” with J. Ortiz-Baco at KeystoneDH 2024, Eire, PA May 21
• “Connecter les chapitres linguistiques de Programming Historian? Vers une table conceptuelle multilingue constituée semi-automatiquement” with M. Gille Levenson, C. Ringwald, M. Flesch, S. Papastamkou, R. Quiroga and D. Valentine at Colloque Humanistica 2024, Meknès, Morocco, May 3-9
• “An Exploratory Data Analysis of Space in Spanish-Language Literature” with J. Ortiz-Baco at MLA2024, Philadelphia, PA January 4

• “LeShow as Data. An Exploratory Analsysis” at CAS 2023 Summer Symposium, State College, PA, August 2
• “Digital (Humanities) Trace Data. Critical Approaches to Platforms, APIs, and Metrics for Studying DH Communities” panel organizer and presenter with R. Quiroga at ACH2023, July 1

• “In Which Languages Are We Citing When We Write About humanidades digitales? A study of References in Academic Articles” with Gimena del Rio Riande. DHUnbound 2022, May 17-19
• “Literary Analysis of Spanish-language Novels with NLP and Character-level Metadata“ at Digital Humanities Beyond Modern English, Computational Analysis of Premodern and Non-Western Literature, Austin, TX, April 8

• “Leveraging Computational Methods for Comparing Low-Prestige Translations” with L.S. Bessette, K. Bowers, Q. Dombrowski, M. Gorshkova, I. Gribomont, C. Hodrick, M. Massucco, C. Wagner, E. Elbaz, O.O. Bantjes-Rafols. Poster at EADH2021, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, September 23

• “Distinción de géneros literarios a través de la visualización de redes de personajes. El caso de diez Episodios nacionales de Pérez Galdós.” Poster at *NoviembreHD* by the Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales, virtual, November 5

• “The Programming Historian en español. De la traducción a la creación de recursos educativos abiertos“ with A. Rojas Castro. IV Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas, Universidad de Toledo, Spain, October 24
• “Sentiment Analysis Methods in Translation.“ Digital Frontiers 2019. Tear Down the Walls, The University of Texas at Austin, TX, September 26-28
• “Retos en la producción de tutoriales de HD en contextos hispanohablantes“ with M.J. Afanador-Lllach and A. Rojas-Castro. ACH 2019 Conference, Pittsburg, PA, July 23-26
• “Overcoming Challenges and Breaking Down Barriers. Digital Scholarship Support Within and Beyond the University“ round table with Starry, Rachel L.; Dodson, Heidi; Young, Chris J.; Wermer-Colan, Alex; Slayton, Emma. ACH 2019 Conference, Pittsburg, PA, July 23-26
• “Spanish Colonialism in the Indigenous Borderlands. Collaborative Digital Scholarship in the Undergraduate Classroom“ with A. Palacios. LASA 2019, Boston, MA, May 27

• “Data science and the language question in digital humanities pedagogy, the example of Programming Historian“ with A. Rojas-Castro and A. Sichani. EADH 2018, Data in Digital Humanities. National University of Ireland, Galway, December 9
• “Distinction of Literary Genres through the Visualization of Character Networks. The Case of ten National Episodes by Pérez Galdós.” Poster. The Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science 2018, Chicago, IL, November 10
• “Lo que se vale y no se vale preguntar. El potencial pedagógico de las Humanidades Digitales para la enseñanza sobre la experiencia mexicano-americana en el Midwest de Estados Unidos” with I. Velázquez and M. Vinícius Barbosa. DH2018, México City, México, June 29

• “Modelo de análisis de la sociedad en el diseño de los personajes de los Episodios nacionales.” 2016 Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature. The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, November 5
• “Texting en español. An Activity that Connects Communicative Tools and Literacy Skills for Heritage Language Learners of Spanish.” Poster. 2016 UIC BilForum. University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, October 20
• “Historical and Fictional Nation. A Methodology for a Distant Reading Survey of the *Episodios Nacionales* by Benito Pérez Galdós.” 2016 Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Conference. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, April 13

• “La distopía a la vuelta de la esquina. Medios de comunicación y autodestrucción en Círculos de Ríos San Martín.” The Chicago Graduate Conference. University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, November 14
• “Visualizing History. The Malone Community Center, A Platform for the Community to Rediscover their History” by J. Isasi and A. Kinnaman. Digital Humanities Forum 2015. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, September 26
• “Geosocial Identity in Ena Lucía Portela’s Cien botellas en una pared.” NoLimits! 2015, Talking Leadership. University of Omaha, Omaha, NE, March 2

• “A Methodology for Character Networks at a Macroanalytical Level.” Poster. M. Condello, R. Harrison, J. Isasi, A. Kinnaman, A. Kumari. Digital Humanities Forum 2014. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, September 13
• “A Quantitative Approach to Character Space.” Invited talk, Digital Humanities Modern Languages & Literatures Colloquium Series, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, April 23
• “Las tragedias de Calderón, ‘los dos cuerpos del rey’ como sistema de control social.” The XVII Annual Hispanic and Lusophone Studies Symposium. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, April 12

• “Resultado de la ruptura de la realidad en el personaje de Abelarda en *Miau* de Benito Pérez Galdós.” 2012 Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, October 14

• “An Exploratory Data Analysis of Space in Spanish-Language Literature” with J. Ortiz-Baco for DIGIT 210/Text Analysis by Dr. Elisa Beshero-Bondar, Penn State Erie, February 28.
• “Zotero. The Best Friend to Your Bibliography.” DLA Workshop Series, Penn State Univeristy, virtual format, January 31.

• “Zotero. The Best Friend to Your Bibliography.” DLA Workshop Series, Penn State Univeristy, virtual format, March 22.
• “Crear una exhibición digital mínima e interactiva con CollectionBuilder.” Herramientas y procesos digitales para la investigación y creación en artes y humanidades at Universidad de los Andes, virtual format, February 9th and 10th.

• “Collection Builder” in the inaugural Compartir Pantalla by the Hispanic Digital Humanities Association, online, November 8th.
• “When Global is Local. Multilingualism, Diversity, and Representation in Digital Humanities and Humanidades Digitales” with Dr. Gimena del Rio Riande at FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute (FSCI) 2022, virtual format, July 26-28.
• “El flujo editorial en Programming Historian en español.” Invited talk to Edición Digital de Textos course taught by Dr. Rojas Castro at Máster Universitario en Humanidades Digitales, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja.

• “Exhibición digital mínima e interactiva con CollectionBuilder.” For A. Mellon Summer Workshop Series for the Latin American Digital Initiatives, UT Austin, TX, August 20.
• “Recuperating and circulating history through (digital) humanities project.” For The Post World War II Civil Rights Movement course (AFAM 465) at PSU, in preparation for a project.

• “(Culture in) English is Not a Synonym for DH. Una humanista digital en EE.UU.” Invited talk on Minimal Digital Editions, course co-taught by Drs. Gimena del Rio Riande at CONICET- Argentina and Raff Viglianti at MITH-University of Maryland.
• “On-the-Fly Text Analysis with Voyant Tools.” Reading from a Distance series at Penn State University, October 7.

• “Multilingual Sentiment Analysis with R.” University of Texas Libraries’ “Digital Humanities Workshops at PCL” Series. The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, February 13.
• “Archivos post-custodiales y humanidades digitales.” Interview for course on digital editions by Dr. Antonio Rojas Castro at University of La Rioja, Spain.

• “Topic Modeling Violence in Guatemala,” co-taught with J. Ortiz-Baco. Mellon-NEH funded project “Post-Custodial Archival Development and Digital Scholarship. Learning from Latin America.” The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, September 26.
• “Digital Pedagogies.” DH Bootcamp 2018. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, April 13.

• “Minimal Archiving” with S. Camerone. DH Bootcamp 2017. University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, April 6.

• “Visualization Basics. A Workshop.” DH Bootcamp 2016. University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, April 7.

• “Literary Text Analysis with R. A Beginners Workshop.” Creighton University, Omaha, NE, April 7.

• “An Introduction to Digital Humanities and the Graduate Certificate at UNL.” Digital Humanities Modern Languages & Literatures Colloquium Series, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, March 19.

• Council on Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

• Graduate Research Assistantship at The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities for Ph.D. Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

• George Rogers Memorial Merit Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

• Graduate Teaching Assistantship for M.A. and Ph.D. Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln