This Spring 2014 semester, I had the pleasure of working with a group of 5 interns enrolled in my Digital Humanities Internship course, and Ian Rolón, a volunteer from the Fall 2013 semester. Together, they worked on activities such as:
  • Developing Web presence for La Feria Internacional del Libro.
  • Developing posters, resources, presentations, and outreach activities for I ♥ E-Poetry at the Feria Internacional del Libro.
  • Helping organize and host the E-Poetry 2014 Intensive.
  • Developing an A to Z by Title Index for I ♥ E-Poetry.
  • Fine-tuning all I ♥ E-Poetry entries to follow the same template.
  • Developing resource pages and linking entries back to them.
  • Writing descriptive alt-text tags for all images at I ♥ E-Poetry to meet W3C Accessibility standards.
  • Writing new I ♥ E-Poetry entries, which will be posted all of next week.
Here's a brief profile for each intern for this semester, in alphabetical order: Juan A. Colon Norat is a Senior undergraduate student in English Literature at the University of Puerto Rico: Mayaguez Campus. He is also a film student who has worked in a few short films as Assistant Producer, Screenwriter, and most recently as Director. His career goals are to get a Ph.D in Creative Writing and land a job as both Professor of Creative Writing and a Video Game critic for the magazine Game Informer. Yaisha Cordero Rivera is a fourth year student at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez campus. She majors in English Literature accompanied with a minor in French Language and Literature. She hopes to get accepted into a Publishing and Editing M.S. program to then become a book editor in the near future. Her interests are currently set on literary theory and criticism and contemporary literature written after 2003. Emanuel De León is a first year undergraduate student with a major in Comparative Literature at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez (UPRM). Recently chosen as the new president of the Comparative Literature Association, Emanuel proves to be a very energetic and enthusiastic student, constantly forming part and volunteering in various activities, such as the "fifth colloquium: Del otro l'ao queer sexual perspectives", held at the UPRM (and many more). His ultimate goal is to become a Professor and earning his Doctor's degree in Comparative Literature. He believes that education is an essential part to build a greater community. In his free time he enjoys reading, writing and acting (these last two being his passion). He is currently writing a fiction Novel and forms a part of one of his University's theatre group, PAEC. Pedro Noel Doreste is a student at the University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez working to obtain a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature at the conclusion of the present semester. He has also studied at the University of Tampere as an exchange student in 2012, and presented what would become his undergraduate thesis at the 2013 International Conference on Medievalism at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin. He is currently committed to attend Emory University for his graduate studies in Film Theory, History, and Criticism. His areas of interests include, but are not limited to, Neomedievalism in Film, situation comedies in Television, and the punk aesthetic. In his spare time, Pedro listens to punk and hip-hop, plays with his dogs, and has written a few odd pages of poetry. Juan is a senior undergraduate student in English Literature at the University of Puerto Rico: Mayagüez Campus. His research interests include ESL linguistics, translingualism, Germanic, North American, and Caribbean literature. Juan's current projects include 'zine poetry and the translation of Roberto Bolaño's "Estrella Distante." He is currently aspiring to an M.S. in speech-language pathology. Hector Lopez is a senior undergraduate student in English Literature at the University of Puerto Rico: Mayagüez Campus. His career goal is to earn a PhD on Modernist and Postmodern literature. He is very passionate with both literature and film and he habitually watches film and reads loads of literature in his free time. Thank you for your dedication and hard work!