Weekly DH Meet-Up: Interactive Fiction with David Fredrick and Rachel Murray
The next installment of the Weekly Digital Humanities Meet-Up takes place from 2-3 p.m. this Wednesday, Nov. 30, at the World Languages and Digital Humanities Studio, J.B. Hunt room 207.
At the meet-up, David Fredrick, associate professor of classics, and Rachel Murray, graduate assistant in the classics program, will present on the upcoming Spring 2023 course "Dirty Pretty Romans: Interactive Fiction Set in Ancient Rome" (LATN 2013/ENGL 2413). The course will develop an interactive poetic fiction in graphic novel style based on the poetry of Catullus (1st century B.C.E.) set in ancient Rome. The course will immerse students in the life and culture of Rome and introduce them to ArcGIS StoryMaps and the interactive fiction platform Twine. The course will be in English, and no prior Latin study is required.
Refreshments will be provided at the meet-up.
Course Information
- Dirty Pretty Romans: An Interactive Fiction Set in Ancient Rome
- LATN 2013 - ENGL 2413
- Spring semester 2023
- Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4-5:15 p.m.
- Contact: David Fredrick (dfredric@uark.edu)
For more information, contact Curtis Maughan, director of the World Languages and Digital Humanities Studio, at cmaughan@uark.edu, or Cheyenne Roy, assistant director of the studio, at ceroy@uark.edu.
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Contacts
Cheyenne Roy, assistant director, World Languages and Digital Humanities Studio
World Languages, Literatures and Cultures
479-575-4159,
ceroy@uark.edu
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