Dr. Cherrie Kwok / 郭明欣

Digital Humanities

Before beginning my doctorate, I worked for a few years as a Content and Social Media Manager for New York University's Center for Data Science. I have continued my interests in artificial intelligence, digital archives, social media, technology, and web design in various aspects of my academic career. Outside of academia, I enjoy sci-fi and technology-related shows, books, and concepts. Black Mirror, The Matrix (all four films), and After Yang are some favorites of mine. I am now watching the recent Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem / 三体, a novel that I am also reading alongside the episodes.

Digital Archive Work

TEI Encoding for Digitized Manuscripts

I contributed to the development of a TEI schema for the Michael Field Diaries Project, an initiative focused on digitizing 29 diaries of two queer Decadent poets in the nineteenth-century who wrote under a shared pseudonym, Michael Field. I also transcribed and encoded 100 pages of Volume 20 of the diaries as a lead developer, and wrote a simple find-and-replace Python script to accelerate the TEI encoding process.

One More Voice

I supported the development of One More Voice's (OMV) mission statement. OMV is a digital humanities recovery project that identifies, documents, and critically engages with the voices of racialized creators in British imperial and colonial archives.

Teaching

DH Courses

I have developed and delivered first-year writing and composition courses about digital writing on mediums such as Instagram, Wikipedia, Podcasts, and Twitter as an instructor of record. I have also prepared syllabi that introduces students to core skills and concepts in the digital humanities.

Wikipedia

I began creating multiple Wikipedia entries through an Art+Feminism event at the Guggenheim Museum in 2016. I have since hosted multiple Edit-A-Thons in my undergraduate courses, and published peer-reviewed pedagogical papers about incorporating Wikipedia in the classroom (see my Teaching page). You can see more on my Wikipedia profile, @palimpsestic.

Web Design

I like designing websites. I designed this website from scratch using pure HTML/CSS. You can find the code for this website on my GitHub repository: @mk7kf. I have committed to crafting static sites based on HTML/CSS so that the code that I write can be easily adapted and used as a basic template by beginners who are learning how to code a website of their own. This is inspired by a group project about web design that I completed through UVA's digital humanities Scholars' Lab. If you learn how to make your own website, then you do not need to pay someone else (or a content management system) to make it for you. Moreover, you will have 100% control over how it looks, and if you host it on GitHub Pages, it will be free for perpetuity.

In the meantime, I'm also constructing a website for a digital archive to accompany my book project (see my Research page).