Glenn Dibert-Himes Visits the UO and Wired RIG!

During April 1998, Glenn Dibert-Himes of London was sponsored as a guest of the Center for the Study of Women in Society's Feminist Humanities Project and the Wired RIG for several events that included an all-day workshop on learning to use new multimedia technologies for educational instruction. It was called "Wiring the Humanities."

Glenn, who holds a Ph.D. in English 19th Century Women Writers, focused on using new media technologies like Authorware© to enhance educational instruction and presentation of material for teaching. His visit included hands-on workshops and guest lectures on using multimedia in a variety of environments.

During his visit, Glenn began working with the UO New Media Center using Authorware© and later put together a CD-ROM using Latitia Landon's Works. The idea was to use multi-media to present the texts as they were received in their time: using art and music to enhance the presentation of texts. To learn more about Glenn's current project, visit his website on the Corvey project.

Glenn talked more about his philosophy for using multimedia: "The foundational philosophy behind my work is that as professionals we need to have as large a role as possible on the developmental side of IT. We need to place the technology in the hands of those who actually do the research and teach instead of outside non-specialist developers. Teaching is personal; we need to be able to enhance our own practice through the use of digital technology."

His current project, the Corvey project, is a newly discovered archive of British, German and French 19th century women's fiction that has been sitting virtually untouched for years.

Glenn holds a position in Sheffield where he assists with the digitizing of historical literary texts (the DRH project). More about this project can be found at the DRH Conference site.