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, where I translated faculty papers and presentations about artificial intelligence, natural language processing (NLP), and more into accessible language for the public and communications teams. I have continued my interests in artificial intelligence, digital archives, social media, technology, web design, and more 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 sci-fi triology that I am also reading alongside the episodes.
Publications
Digital Writing and Technology in the Classroom
I published a peer-reviewed article about one unit in my digital writing course, which focused on race, history, and the role of Wikipedia in the composition classroom. “Using Wikipedia in the composition classroom and beyond: Encyclopedic “Neutrality,” Social Inequality, and Failure as Subversion.” The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP). Issue 18. December 2020. (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.)
Teaching
DH Courses
I have developed and delivered writing and composition courses about digital writing, social media, technology, and artificial intelligence as an instructor of record. Through a Praxis Fellowship at the UVA Library's DH Scholars' Lab, I have also prepared syllabi that introduces students to core skills and concepts in DH and recent technological trends, such as the rise of artificial intelligence and ChatGPT.
Digital Archive Work
TEI Encoding for Digitized Manuscripts
Through the NYU Brine Digital Humanities Summer Internship, 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.
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).
