Catherine DeRose

Technical Writing | User Experience Design

Teaching and Mentorship Awards

2015 Capstone Teaching Award, UW-Madison College of Letters & Science, nominated by the English Department

2014 Honored Instructor Award, nominated by my undergraduate students

2014 Best TA Award, UW-Madison Undergraduate Society for English, nominated by undergraduate students

2013 Outstanding Instructor Award Nominee, nominated by fellow instructors

2012 Honored Instructor Award, nominated by my undergraduate students

2012 Graduate Student Peer Mentor Award, nominated by fellow graduate students

Instructor

  • YData: Humanities Data Mining. Statistics and Data Science 176/576. Undergraduate and graduate seminar. Yale University, Spring 2021

  • From Text Mining to Mapping: Digital Humanities Methods. Week-long undergraduate seminar. Yale-NUS Singapore, Spring 2019

  • Introduction to Composition. English 100. Undergraduate seminar. UW-Madison, Fall 2014

  • Foundations of a Liberal Education. Integrated Liberal Studies 138. Undergraduate seminar. UW-Madison, Fall 2014

  • Foundations of a Liberal Education. Integrated Liberal Studies 138. Undergraduate seminar. UW-Madison, Fall 2013

  • Introduction to Composition. English 100. Undergraduate seminar. UW-Madison, Spring 2013

  • Introduction to Composition. English 100. Undergraduate seminar. UW-Madison, Fall 2012

Selected Guest Lectures

  • “Digital Humanities Methods, Tools, and Publics.” Introduction to Public Humanities. Undergraduate and graduate seminar. Professor Ryan Brasseaux. Yale University, Fall 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016

  • “Introduction to Network Analysis.” Fundamentals of Working with People. Graduate seminar. Professor Stuart DeCew. Yale University, Spring 2019

  • “Digital Humanities Applications in History.” Research Seminar in U.S. Political Economy. Graduate seminar. Professor Jennifer Klein. Yale University, Spring 2019

  • “Visualizing Austen and Scott: Text Mining and Network Graphs.” Jane Austen and Walter Scott: History and Manners in the Romantic Novel. Undergraduate seminar. Professor Anastasia Eccles. Yale University, Fall 2018

  • “Mapping Urban Landscapes.” Inequality and the American Metropolis, 1880-1999. Undergraduate seminar. Instructor Nichole Nelson. Yale University, Fall 2018

  • “Creating a Digital Atlas: Collecting, Mapping, and Sharing Data.” New Orleans in the American Imaginary. Professors Crystal Feimster and Joseph Fischel. Undergraduate seminar. Yale University, Spring 2018

  • “Introduction to the Digital Humanities.” Performing American Literature. Undergraduate and graduate seminar. Professor Wai Chee Dimock. Yale University, Spring 2018, 2017

  • “Ethics, Accessibility, and Evaluation in Digital Humanities.” Minimal DH. Undergraduate seminar. Professor Laura Wexler. Yale University, Spring 2017

  • Workshop on Story Maps. Minimal DH. Undergraduate seminar. Professor Laura Wexler. Yale University, Spring 2017

  • “Introduction to Network Theory." History 431J: Family and Empire. Undergraduate seminar. Professor Julia Stephens. Yale University, Spring 2016

  • "What is a Network and How can You Tell?” Co-lecture with Lauren Tilton (American Studies). Mellon Seminar: (En)Visualizing Knowledge. Graduate seminar. Professors Laura Wexler and Inderpal Grewal. Yale University, UW-Madison, Fall 2016

  • “Digital Methods and the Victorian Serial Novel.” English 845: Seriality in the Nineteenth Century. Graduate seminar. Professor Susan Bernstein. UW-Madison, Fall 2013

  • “Victorian Eyes: From Project Design to Grant Applications to Implementation.” Design Studies 469: Art Enterprise: Art as Business. Undergraduate seminar. Professor Sarah Marty. UW-Madison, Fall 2013

  • “‘I Shall Kill No Albatross’: Introduction to Frankenstein.” English 216: British and Anglophone Literature from 1750 to the present. Undergraduate seminar. Professor Colin Gillis. UW-Madison, Fall 2013

  • “Text Analysis on Micro and Macro Scales.” English 960: Seminar in Digital Approaches to British Literature, 1470-1800. Graduate seminar. Professor Robin Valenza. UW-Madison, Spring 2013

  • “Ann Radcliffe and the Supernatural Explained in The Romance of the Forest.” English 442: The Eighteenth Century Gothic Novel. Undergraduate seminar. Professor Robin Valenza. UW-Madison, Spring 2011

Teaching Assistant (UW-Madison)

  • English 216: British and Anglophone Literature from 1750 to the present. Undergraduate seminar. Professor Caroline Levine. Spring 2014

  • English 216: British and Anglophone Literature from 1750 to the present. Undergraduate seminar. Professor Colin Gillis. Fall 2013

Course-Related Research Assistant (UW-Madison)

  • Shakespeare in Community. MOOC course. Instructors Jesse Stommel (UW-Madison), Sarah Marty (UW-Madison), R L Widmann (Folger Shakespeare Library). Spring 2015

  • English 764: Digital Study of Renaissance Literature. Graduate seminar. Professor Michael Witmore. Spring 2011

Invited Instructor

Workshop Instructor (Yale University)

I regularly teach workshops on digital humanities methods for research and teaching, tailoring my lessons to account for disciplinarily and demographically mixed audiences that have included undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, staff, non-academics, and K-12 audiences. My most frequently taught workshops are included below.

Programming & Web Design

  • Python for Humanists Series: Getting Started, Collecting Data with APIs, Parsing Data, Building Classifiers, Extracting Colors, Detecting Similar Images

  • Software Carpentry: Python, the Unix Shell, Git

  • Library Carpentry: OpenRefine, Python, the Unix Shell

  • Creating Websites with GitHub Pages

  • Version Control with Git and GitHub

Data Visualization & Digital Humanities

  • Introduction to Data Visualization with Tableau

  • Introduction to Digital Humanities: Texts, Maps, Networks

  • Scaling Up (or Down): Project Management in the Digital Humanities

Text & Image Analysis

  • Introduction to Named Entity Recognition (command line, Stanford’s graphical user interface)

  • Introduction to Topic Modeling (Mallet, Topic Modeling Tool)

  • Applications of Neural Style Transfer

Geospatial & Network Analysis

  • Maps, Graphs, & Data Dashboards

  • Introduction to ArcGIS Online

  • Telling a Story with Data: Introduction to Story Maps

  • Introduction to Network Analysis with Gephi

  • Reading Romeo and Juliet as a Network Graph