Randa El Khatib

Dissertation Title: Geospatial Research Prototyping (working title)

Supervisor: Dr. Ray Siemens

I’m a doctoral candidate in English studying the representation of literary space in plays and epic poetry of early modern England. My research also focuses on digital humanities, particularly on geospatial humanities and software prototyping. Working at the intersection of these fields, I develop geospatial prototypes to apply to the study of early modern literature. I’m the Assistant Director (Open Knowledge Initiatives) of the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, where I help run programs such as the Open Knowledge Practicum, as well as carry out research related to open scholarship. I’m currently the Managing Editor of Early Modern Digital Review.

Recent Scholarly Activity

El Khatib, Randa and David Currell. 2018. “Mapping the Moralized Geography of Paradise Lost.” In Digital Milton, edited by David Currell and Islam Issa. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan: 129-152.

El Khatib, Randa, David Wrisley, Shady Elbassuoni, Mohamad Jaber, and Julia El Zini. 2019. “Prototyping Across the Disciplines.” Digital Studies/Le champ numérique 8(1): 10, pp. 1–20. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/dscn.282.

Visiting Researcher at the Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung (HKI), the Digital Humanities Institute at the University of Cologne

Co-instructor of “Introduction to Computation for Literary Criticism” at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI)

Co-instructor of “Humanities Data and Mapping Environments” at the European Summer University in Digital Humanities (ESUDH)