UW Textual Studies Annual Awards Honor Student Projects
TXTDS Graduate and Undergraduate Students Recognized for Outstanding Work Annually, the Textual Studies Program awards graduate and undergraduate projects completed as part of Textual Studies’ coursework. Each year, a committee of TXTDS faculty select outstanding projects from both graduate and undergraduate students. This year, the committee recognized six fantastic submissions. Read more about these projects […]
UW Textual Studies Faculty Receives Award from the American Council of Learned Societies
Gian Duri Rominger Awarded 2026 ACLS Fellowship UW Textual Studies is proud to announce that Dr. Gian Duri Rominger, TXTDS faculty and Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature, has been selected by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) as a 2026 ACLS Fellowship recipient. Below, we showcase Dr. Rominger’s work, detail the history and focus of the […]
UW Textual Studies Minor Completes Capstone Analyzing Library Data
Karalee Harris on Research Fellowship with UW Humanities Data Science Summer Institute Today on the blog, we’re highlighting UW Textual Studies student, Karlaee Harris’ Capstone research undertaken with the Humanities Data Science Summer Institute (HDSSI). HDSSI is a program at the University of Washington that brings together undergraduate and graduate students with UW faculty and […]
Celebrating the Career of UW Special Collections Librarian Sandra Kroupa
Book Arts and Rare Books Curator Completes 57 Years of Service Today on the TXTDS blog, we’re celebrating the career of Sandra Kroupa, Book Arts and Rare Books Curator for UW Libraries Special Collections. Sandra was recently named Librarian Emerita by Provost Dean Simon Neame. In this post, we look back at Sandra’s distinguished career […]
UW Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Minor Interns with the Seattle Art Museum
Marin Tisdale on Conservation and Collections Internship with SAM This past year, UW Textual Studies minor Marin Tisdale interned with the Seattle Art Museum learning about collections management and art conservation. Working with the team at SAM, Marin helped restore The Four Accomplishments, a set of seventeenth-century sliding door paintings from the Nara region of […]
UW Textual Studies Minor Completes Digital Edition of The Strand Magazine
Blue Jordan on Digitizing Historical Materials from UW Special Collections Over the fall quarter, UW Textual Studies student Blue Jordan completed their Capstone project, a digital edition of a 1901 volume of The Strand Magazine held in the UW Special Collections. In their own words, Blue describes the inspiration behind the project, working with rare materials […]