Focus Award Judge: Data and Digital Storytelling Award (CAMD & CSSH)
Sarah Connell is the Assistant Director of the Women Writers Project and the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks at Northeastern University. Her research focuses on text encoding and text analysis, medieval and early modern literature and historiography, and pedagogies of digital scholarship. Her current projects include Making Room in History, a text encoding and analysis project on early modern narratives of national identity; a collaboration with Diana Henderson and Erica Zimmer to develop an online course on the Merchant of Venice for the MITx platform; and an NEH-funded seminar series on research and teaching with word embedding models.