Freshmen and Sophomores interested in the visual arts, photography, literature, and history are encouraged to apply for the project "Researching and Digitizing Dartmouth's Illustrated Dante Collections," starting in Summer 2015 or Fall 2015. http://ugresearch.dartmouth.edu/projects/822. You will work closely with a variety of rare and beautiful items and your work will make a lasting contribution to teaching and research at the College.
Applications are welcome from all eligible
students: you do not need
to have studied Italian or Dante to apply. Current freshmen can receive full funding to stay on campus for the coming summer quarter under the Leave Term Research program. Current sophomores can participate via the Presidential Scholar or Junior Research
Scholar schemes. The deadline for many programs is April 29, so please contact Prof. Hooper at
[log in to unmask] asap to express your interest.
Description
Dante Lab (http://dantelab.dartmouth.edu/), Dartmouth’s in–house website on Italy’s most famous poet, is looking for an artistically sensitive and dedicated individual to help us build an online gallery of Dante–related images.
Description
Dante Lab (http://dantelab.dartmouth.edu/), Dartmouth’s in–house website on Italy’s most famous poet, is looking for an artistically sensitive and dedicated individual to help us build an online gallery of Dante–related images.
You will work under the supervision of Prof. Laurence Hooper (French and Italian) to catalogue, tag, and appraise the panoply of items held by Dartmouth that contain illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy. You will compile a spreadsheet to log each item, from early printed books to graphic novels. As you work we would value your input on which illustrations are especially eye–catching, beautiful, or otherwise noteworthy, since we may put these up on Dante Lab as a “preview” of the full gallery to follow.
Once the spreadsheet is complete, you will help to make a selection of the images you have catalogued available online via the Dante Lab gallery. (N.B. This will not involve web design unless you already have that skill.) You will collaborate with the librarians/curators of the various institutions to procure or take high–quality photographs of the images selected to appear on the website. You will draft the introductory copy for the Dante Lab gallery page and ensure all of the images appearing there are correctly identified, tagged and presented.
Special Requirements
· Demonstrable artistic training or sensitivity. (Can be completely unrelated to the project.)
· Experience with photography highly desirable.
· Clear concise writing style, especially when describing artistic works.
· A reading knowledge of Italian would be very helpful but is not essential.
· No familiarity with the Divine Comedy is necessary in order to apply but you will need to read the poem before you start the project and meet with the Professor to discuss it.
Eligibility and Duration
See http://www.dartmouth.edu/~ugar/undergrad/programs.html for full details on eligibility and deadlines.
· Demonstrable artistic training or sensitivity. (Can be completely unrelated to the project.)
· Experience with photography highly desirable.
· Clear concise writing style, especially when describing artistic works.
· A reading knowledge of Italian would be very helpful but is not essential.
· No familiarity with the Divine Comedy is necessary in order to apply but you will need to read the poem before you start the project and meet with the Professor to discuss it.
Eligibility and Duration
See http://www.dartmouth.edu/~ugar/undergrad/programs.html for full details on eligibility and deadlines.
To apply, please log in to ugresearch.dartmouth.edu with your net ID and password and search for Faculty Name: Hooper.
