Adam Mazel
EMPLOYMENT
(selection)
| Year | Job Title | Department | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| – | Digital Scholarship and Instruction Librarian
(Assistant Librarian I) |
Schaffer Library | Union College |
| – | Lecturer I | English Department Writing Program | University of Michigan |
EDUCATION
| Year | Degree | Field | School |
|---|---|---|---|
| M.S. | Library and Information Science | Simmons University | |
| Ph.D. | English Language and Literature | University of Michigan | |
| Certificate | Graduate Teacher | University of Michigan | |
| M.A. | English Language and Literature | University of Michigan | |
| M.A. | English and American Literature | New York University | |
| Advanced Certificate | Poetics and Theory | New York University | |
| B.A. | English and American Literature | New York University |
AWARDS & GRANTS
| Year | Award / Grant | Grantor |
|---|---|---|
| Manifold Digital Services Support Grant | Manifold Scholarship | |
| , | DHSI Tuition Scholarships | Digital Humanities Summer Institute |
| – | Travel Grants | Simmons University |
| – | Jane Hawes ‘85LS Merit-Based Tuition Scholarship | Simmons University |
| Hone Research Fellowship for Museum Engagement (Offered but declined) | Dayton Art Institute | |
| – | Rackham Humanities Research Dissertation Fellowship | University of Michigan |
| Rackham-Sweetland Dissertation Writing Institute Fellowship | University of Michigan | |
| Carl Braun Dissertation / Thesis Research Travel Grant | University of Michigan | |
| Public Humanities Institute | University of Michigan | |
| – | Research Grants | University of Michigan |
| – | Travel Grants | University of Michigan |
| Master’s Class Representative | New York University |
PUBLICATIONS
peer-reviewed articles
- (2017). The Age of Rhyme: The Verse Culture of Victorian Cambridge. Nineteenth-Century Literature 72(3), 374-401.
- (2017). The Ends of Rhyme: Swinburne’s A Century of Roundels and Late-Victorian Rhyme Culture. Victorian Poetry 55(2), 163-187.
- (2016). “You, guess”: The Enigmas of Christina Rossetti. Victorian Literature and Culture 44(3), 511–533.
peer-reviewed posters
- (2019). Mazel, A. and Dumas, C. Computational analyses of the relation of theme and genre in the writing of Aphra Behn. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 56(1), 733-734.
First Author
book chapters
- (Forthcoming). Bush, L., & Mazel, A. Time for a change: Transforming library instruction for transformative learning. In A. N. Hess (Ed.), Instructional identities and information literacy, Volume 2: Transforming our programs, institutions, and profession. ACRL.
Co-First Author
solicited review essays
other
- (2019). Appraisal and acquisitions. NEA Newsletter 46(1), 11.
- (2018, November 26). Interpreting insights: reflecting on numerical analyses of Women Writers Online citations.
- (2018). When it’s more than just business: Advocating the value of corporate records. NEA Newsletter 45(3), 25–26.
- (2018). Presenting archival collections to the public. NEA Newsletter 45(1), 16.
- (2013, January 31). Learning about teaching through intercampus mentorship.
PRESENTATIONS
- (2020, May 7). Alternative break seminars: helping campuses engage with ethics and information literacy in AI. Recounting Algorithms: A Workshop on Critical Algorithm Studies in the Library, University of Toronto Mississauga Library, Ontario, Canada.
[Paper accepted but conference cancelled.] - (2019, March 13). Digital humanities publishing and librarianship. Talk given at the Digital Humanities and Librarianship Round Table, Simmons University, Boston, MA.
Round Table Co-Organizer - (2014, Nov. 13–15). Pronouncing rhyme: rhyme, social class, and the standardization of English, 1860–1910. Paper presented at the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Conference, London, Ontario, Canada.
- (2013, April 4). Slattern rhyme: The reception of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s rhymes in England and America, 1850–1900. Paper presented at the Nineteenth-Century Forum Graduate Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
- (2013, March 14–17). “Urgent rhyme”: Owen Seaman and the youth of rhyme. Paper presented at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) Conference, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
- (2012, Sept. 27–30). “Cunning of sound unsought”: Swinburne’s rhymes in A Century of Roundels. Paper presented at the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
- (2012, July 11–13). “A love-machine / With clockwork joints”: Swinburne’s rhyme games and “Faustine.” Paper presented at the Inter-Disciplinary.Net Conference, Mansfield College, Oxford, England.
- (2011, April 1–3). “Nous in nonsense”: The ludic and lucidic in Christina Rossetti’s poetry and short stories. Paper presented at the Graduate English Conference, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
- (2011, March 25–26). Christina’s enigmas: The ludic and the lucidic in Christina Rossetti’s poetry. Paper presented at the CLIFF Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
- (2007, Oct. 26). “Becoming a name”: Place and displacement in Tennyson’s “Ulysses.” Paper presented at the 19th Annual Tufts University English Graduate Conference, Medford, MA.
- (2006, Sept. 22–23). Darwinism and the transformation of genre in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Paper presented at the Evolutions Conference, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
- (2006, April 14). “A savage race”: Hellenism and imperialism in Tennyson’s “Ulysses.” Paper presented at the Nineteenth-Century Forum Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
- (2006, March 23–26). Secret sympathies: Frankenstein and the establishment of literary subjectivity. Paper presented at the 14th Annual British Women Writers Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville.
DIGITAL SKILLS
| Technique | Tool |
|---|---|
| Data Cleaning | OpenRefine (basic) |
| Data Interchange / Metadata | XML (TEI), XSL (basic), various metadata standards |
| Data Visualization | Tableau (basic) |
| Databases | MyWebSQL |
| Mapping | Google My Maps, StoryMap JS |
| OCR | ABBYY FineReader PDF, Adobe Acrobat |
| Programming | CLI (basic), PHP (basic), Python (intermediate), SQL (basic) |
| Publishing | CollectionBuilder, CSS (basic), HTML, Hypothes.is, Manifold, Markdown, Pandoc, Reclaim Hosting, Static Site Generators (ex. Jekyll), WordPress.org |
| Reference Management | RefWorks |
| Spreadsheets | Calc | Excel | Google Sheets (all basic) |
| Surveys | Qualtrics XM |
| Text Analysis | AntConc, HathiTrust Research Center, Lexos, MALLET, Stanford CoreNLP, Stanford Named Entity Recognizer, Stylo, Topic Modeling Tool, Voyant-Tools |
| Timelines | Timeline JS |
| Version Control | Git (basic), GitHub, GitHub Desktop, Subversion |
| Web Scraping | Twitter Archiving Google Sheet (TAGS) |
TEACHING
Courses
| Year | Title | Topic | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-Summer | "Summer Institute for Digital Exploration at Schaffer" Lead Instructor | Undergraduate Research Program | Union College |
| 2020-Spring | "Journals of the Plague Term" Co-Instructor | Interdisciplinary Study | Union College |
| 2015-Fall | "A Writer’s Choices and the Rhetorical Situation" (Two Sections) | Upper-Level Writing | University of Michigan |
| 2015-Fall | "Victorian Ghosts and Monsters" (One Section) | First-Year Writing | University of Michigan |
| 2015-Winter | "A Writer’s Choices: Vision & Revision" (Two Sections) | First-Year Writing | University of Michigan |
| 2015-Winter | "Writing Across Genres" (One Section) | First-Year Writing | University of Michigan |
| 2014-Fall | “Secrecy, Privacy, and Surveillance" (One Section) | First-Year Writing | University of Michigan |
| 2014-Fall | “Ghosts and Monsters: The Nineteenth-Century Gothic Supernatural" (Two Sections) | First-Year Writing | University of Michigan |
| 2014-Winter | “Rhetorics of American Identities" (One Section) | Upper-Level Writing | University of Michigan |
| 2013-Fall | “Rhetorics of American Identities" (One Section) | Upper-Level Writing | University of Michigan |
| 2011-Winter | “College Writing” (One Section) | First-Year Writing | University of Michigan |
| 2010-Fall | “College Writing” (One Section) | First-Year Writing | University of Michigan |
| 2010-Winter | “Noticing the Everyday” (One Section) | First-Year Writing | University of Michigan |
| 2009-Winter | “Noticing the Everyday” (One Section) | First-Year Writing | University of Michigan |
Workshops
| Year | Title | Topic | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-Winter – Present | “Intro to OER” | OER + Copyright | Union College |
| 2021-Winter – Present | “Whether and How to Share Your Work” Co-Instructor | OER + Copyright | Union College |
| 2021-Winter | “What is Computational Text Analysis?” | Computational Text Analysis | Union College |
| 2020-Spring + Fall | “How to Use the HathiTrust Research Center” | Computational Text Analysis | Union College |
| 2020-Winter – Present | “Finding Scholarship on Your Topic" | Information Literacy | Union College |
| 2020-Winter – Present | “Finding Primary Sources on Your Topic" | Information Literacy | Union College |
| 2019-Fall | “What are Topic Modeling + Word Embedding Modeling?” | Computational Text Analysis | Union College |
| 2019-Fall – Present | “Intro to RefWorks" | Reference Management | Union College |
Teaching Assistantships
| Year | Title | Topic | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-Winter | "The Work of Seeing" | English Language and Literature (Graduate) | University of Michigan |
| 2009-Winter | "Of Human Bonding" | English Language and Literature (Undergraduate) | University of Michigan |
| 2008-Fall | "Jane Austen" | English Language and Literature (Undergraduate) | University of Michigan |
SERVICE
| Year | Role | Group | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| – | Member | 2021 Virtual Conference Committee | ACRL | Editor-at-Large | dh+lib Review | dh+lib |
| – | Peer Reviewer | Victorian Poetry | |
| – | Session Reporter | New England Archivists (NEA) | |
| Practice Teaching Facilitator | CRLT | University of Michigan | |
| – | Treasurer | Nineteenth-Century Forum | University of Michigan |
| – | Steering Committee | Nineteenth-Century Forum | University of Michigan |
AFFILIATIONS
REFERENCES
- Dr. Jennifer Grayburn
Director of Digital Scholarship and Public Services
Union College - Lindsay Bush
Instructional Services Librarian
Union College - Robyn Reed
Head of Access Services Librarian
Union College