My research primarily focuses on the intersections of science, technology, and the humanities. I am currently working on a project examining voice activated devices and the impact on human speech when it is received and interpreted by machines.

This works builds on the central concerns of my dissertation, “The Science of Sound: The Impact of Sound Recording on Vanguard Narrative Form,” which is a comparative study of Irish and Latin American modernisms and the literary responses to the advent of recorded sound. I focus on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman, Leopoldo Lugones’s short stories “La fuerza omega” and “Yzur,” and Jaime Torres Bodet’s novel Proserpina rescatada.

Presentations

Workshops:

Data-driven: the humanities get digital, Birmingham City University, England 2021

Introduction to DH, Tuskegee University, 2020

DH Pedagogy Workshop, Miami University, Ohio,  2019

Textual Data and Digital Texts in the Undergraduate Classroom, NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities, Mississippi State University, 2018.

“Macgyvering DH,” The Collective Library Conference, Tennessee, 2017

Conference Presentations:

Invited:

“Open Tools and Resources,” Open Humanities Graduate Student Workshop, Emory University, 2019

“From Documents to Data: Using Primary Sources in Digital Humanities,” LSU, 2017 

Plenary:

“Digital Humanities and its Publics,” NFAIS Digital Humanities Conference, 2016

Panel Presentations:

“Choose Your Open Education Adventure: Imagining Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Pedagogy in Your Teaching and Learning Practice.” Emily McGinn, Siân Evans, Kathleen DeLaurenti, Maggie Rogers, Delta Teaching Forum, Johns Hopkins University, 2024

“Define your terms: Ethical argumentation in DH.” Elliott Kuecker and Emily McGinn, Digitorium, University of Alabama, 2020

“Cross-Currents of Modernism.” Books, Publishing & Libraries Conference, Grenada, Spain. 2019

“Translation and Transnational Agents in Little Magazines.” Modernist Studies Association Conference. Columbus, Ohio. 2018

“GIS in the Undergraduate Classroom,” Spatial Humanities conference Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. 2018

“Building Capacity through Pedagogy,” DH 2017. Montreal, Canada. 2017

“Southeastern Academic Community for the Digital Humanities.” HASTAC 2017. University of Central Florida. 2017

“Gendering Labor in Digital Humanities,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities, 2017

“We Mapped It so You Don’t Have To,” Tech Connect Presentation ACRL. 2017

“Translation and Transnational Agents in Little Magazines,” Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference,  Bucknell University. 2016

“Literature and Media Change: Historical Perspectives from Europe and the Americas,” Roundtable, Modern Language Association. 2016

“Sound and Body in Jaime Torres Bodet’s Proserpina rescatada,” Modernist Studies Association Conference. 2015

“Models of Student Engagement in DH,” Bucknell Digital Initiatives Conference. 2015

“Doing Digital Humanities as a CLIR Fellow,” HASTAC. 2015

“Satirizing the Security State: Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman and the Politics of Listening,” Modernist Studies Association Conference. 2014

“Networks of Modernism,” Panel Chair. Modernist Studies Association. 2014

“Sounds Like Modernism: Confluence and Division in the Field of Modernist Sound Studies” Seminar participant. Modernist Studies Association. 2014

“Scholarly Editing and the Publication of Handcrafted Editions in the Age of Mass Digitization.” Round Table. Text Encoding Initiative Conference. 2014

“Narrating Sound and Body in Jaime Torres Bodet’s ‘Parálisis’” Listen Up! Conference. 2013

“Reading Phonocentrism in the Education of Deaf Children”  MLA. 2009