Farewell DHC!

I was fortunate enough to be introduced to the field of Digital Humanities during my undergrad education in San Francisco. But it wasn't until coming to San Diego State that I truly felt immersed in the DH community. 

Thanks to the wonderful courses taught by professor Jessica Pressman and being hired as the Digital Humanities Initiative Program Assistant, I was able to actively pursue my interests in DH, and get paid for it! 

Being a part of the DH community at SDSU unlocked so many opportunities for me: I got to meet Mark Marino, Katherine Hayles, and I even spoke on the phone with Mark Bernstein!

If you had asked me during my undergrad, or even my first semester at SDSU, I would never have guessed that I'd meet all these wonderful scholars and work with such amazing people, especially my fellow DH initiative team members, Pam, Patrick, and Sureshi! 

Working as the DH program assistant allowed me to interview a variety of faculty and students at SDSU, engaging with diverse perspectives in the community and being fascinated by all the different types of projects that people are working on. I also got to help in developing the E-lit studio in the Digital Humanities Center, something that will hopefully remain a permanent fixture in the DHC and motivate others to venture deeper into DH. Working with the DH initiative also impressed upon me the value and importance of doing DH related scholarship, that as our society becomes more and more digital and technologically based, DH only becomes more and more essential. The labor of care that is put into the diverse projects in the DH community is a beautiful thing and I'm so thankful that I've got to be a part of it. 

I felt so inspired by all the people I encountered and the work ethic of those around me at SDSU that I even created my own piece of electronic literature that went on to be chosen as one of the winners of the E-Lit competition at SDSU! 

Being welcomed into this DH community not only inspired me, but it also gave me the confidence to trust in my own abilities and observations, to believe that what I had to say and what I was interested in was important.

For my culminating project in the English and Comparative Literature Masters program, I wrote about poetic glitch aesthetics in feminist electronic literature. I would have thought that writing on such a topic would've been too good to be true when I first arrived at SDSU, but instead I was supported, encouraged, and offered guidance. Now this same paper has led to me having a spot on a Digital Studies panel at the 2025 PAMLA Conference!

Thanks to my time at SDSU and the support of those around me, I feel that I have earned the right to proudly claim I am a digital humanities scholar, a title I would have previously believed I didn't deserve.

I'm hopeful for the future and can't wait to see what's next from the DH community at SDSU, and from myself! I know that my time spent and the connections I've made in San Diego will stay with me and continue to push me further. 

Farewell SDSU!