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General Information
| Full Name | Dr. Jessica Witte |
| Contact Address | Centre for Data, Culture and Society · Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh, 1 Lauriston Pl, Edinburgh, EH3 9EF |
| Phone | 07514 233952 |
| jessica.witte@ed.ac.uk | |
| GitHub | www.github.com/jessicawitte92 |
Education
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2022 PhD, English Literature
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - {"Supervisor"=>"Prof. Robert Markley"}
- {"Thesis"=>"The Fasting Girl: A Literary, Digital and Medical History of Anorexia from the Novel to the Clinic (1740-1900)"}
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2016 MA, English Literature
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Focus on Victorian Literature and Culture
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2014 BA, English
Hanover College - Secondary studies in Spanish and Women & Gender Studies
Employment
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2024-present Digital Research Analyst
Centre for Data, Culture and Society, University of Edinburgh -
2024 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh -
2022-2024 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures, University of Edinburgh -
2021-2022 Predoctoral Fellow
Humanities Research Institute, University of Illinois -
2018-2021 Teaching Assistant
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois -
2017-2018 Research Assistant
School of Library and Information Sciences, University of Illinois -
2016-2021 Instructor
Department of English, University of Illinois
Publications
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2024 Political uses of the ancient past on social media are predominantly negative and extreme
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2020 The 'Welsh Fasting Girls' and Anorexia Nervosa in the Victorian Medical Imagination
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2020 NovelTM Datasets for English-Language Fiction, 1700-2009
Media Exposure
{"title"=>"Interviewee, upcoming documentary segment on the 'Welsh Fasting Girls'", "production"=>"Invitation au Voyage, ARTE Network", "year"=>2024}{"title"=>"'Literary Studies in the Digital Age' interview", "platform"=>"Edinburgh Futures Institute", "year"=>2023, "url"=>"https://efi.ed.ac.uk/literary-studies-in-the-digital-age"}
Fellowships and Grants
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2021-2022 Predoctoral Fellowship, Humanities Research Institute
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2020-2021 Lauter-McDougall Fellowship, University of Illinois
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2018-2020 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Fellowship, University of Illinois
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2014-2015 Roxanne J. Decyk Fellowship, University of Illinois
Awards
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2023 Prize for best PhD Thesis in English Literature
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -
2018 Undergraduate Teaching Award
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -
2016-2019 Directory of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students with an Additional Commendation of 'Outstanding' (Top 10%)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Conference Activity
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Generative AI for Heritage Institutions
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Measuring the Rise and Fall of a Subreddit using Text Analytics: The Life Course of r/Antiwork
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Developing Capacity for Post-API Research: New Frameworks for Social Media Data Acquisition
Teaching Experience
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2024 Scraping Websites with R
University of Edinburgh -
2023-2024 Legal & Ethical Issues in Web Scraping
University of Edinburgh -
2023 Stream 2: Text & Data Analysis in the Wild (R)
University of Edinburgh -
2023 Working with OCR (Python)
University of Edinburgh -
2023 Topic Modelling (Python, R)
University of Edinburgh
Mentoring
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2024-present Postgraduate Students
Heritage Minds Lab, University of Edinburgh -
2022-2024 Postgraduate Projects
University of Edinburgh -
2017-2019 Undergraduate Projects
Department of English, University of Illinois
Professional Development
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May-July 2023 Data Science and AI Educator’s Programme
The Alan Turing Institute -
2020-2022 English Language and Composition Exam Reader
College Board (USA)
Academic Service
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2024-present AI Taskforce
School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh -
2024 CDCS Digital Research Prizes, Judge
University of Edinburgh -
2023 CDCS Steering Committee, Board Member
University of Edinburgh -
2023 Research Technology Support, CDCS Rapid Prototyping Sandpit
University of Edinburgh