Example Projects

This comparison project by Luke Sumpter and Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth showcases two different aspects of formal film analysis, editing and intertitle, within the 1916 silent film Shoes by Lois Weber. 

This digital edition by Tanya Clement transcribes and contextualizes recordings of the Harlem Renaissance writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston doing fieldwork in Jacksonville, FL. Held by the Florida Memory Project, the Zora Neale Hurston’s WPA field recordings in Jacksonville, FL were made for the Library of Congress on June 18, 1939 with Herbert Halpert recording.

This project is an interdisciplinary study by Luke Sumpter, an undergraduate student at UT Austin, of time in digital media. Sumpter annotates and discusses films by Denis Villeneuve, Derek Jarman, a radio play adaptation of The Glass Menagerie, and a recorded conversation between Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams held at the Harry Ransom Center.

Created by Rachel Pickard, an undergraduate student at UBC Okanagan, this project provides annotations and analysis of the “Pocket Desert” CBC radio documentary on the Syilx Okanagan Nation, including oral histories provided by indigenous Elders and knowledge keepers.

Edited by Dr. Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth and Dr. Tanya Clement at UT Austin, The SpokenWeb Digital Anthology exhibits annotated audio and video recordings from literary archives across Canada. The anthology presents original research written to contextualize and newly theorize these recorded readings, panels, videopoems, and classroom visits by authors such as Kathy Acker, Irving Layton, Dorothy Livesay, Kaie Kellough, Roy Kiyooka, Daphne Marlatt, Michael McClure, and Muriel Rukeyser.

These transcripts of video recordings from the Furious Flower Collection at James Madison University in Harrisburg Virginia were created by Evan Sizemore. The recordings from Furious Flower document interviews and readings by major African American poets, among them Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Sonia Sanchez, and Major Jackson, accompanied by contextualizing information about them.

The annotations below were created by Kylie Warkentin to share her work to improve the transcription function of Gentle, a forced aligner, using recordings from SpokenWeb Montreal’s “The Sir George Williams University (SGWU) Poetry Series” collection. 

This an annotated recording featuring Anne Sexton reading at Sweetbriar in 1966. The recording is held as part of the Anne Sexton Papers at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin.  The annotations were created by Dr. Tanya Clement.