{"id":105,"date":"2017-08-08T21:05:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T21:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devtandt.cah.ucf.edu\/?page_id=105"},"modified":"2026-10-16T13:20:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T17:20:29","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/textstech\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Do"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t<div class=\"jumbotron jumbotron-fluid bg-secondary text-secondary mb-0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\">\n<h2 class=\"col-md-7\">Research at the Intersection of Humanities and Technology<\/h2>\n<p class=\"col-md-7\">Since 2001, the UCF Texts and Technology Ph.D. program has combined humanities scholarship with digital methods and practices. <span class=\"TextRun SCXW236035098 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW236035098 BCX0\">T&amp;T faculty and students <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW236035098 BCX0\">don&#8217;t<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW236035098 BCX0\"> just study technology&#8217;s effect on culture. They publish, present, and build in response to it. Students pursue specialized research across six areas: Digital Humanities; Digital Media; Editing, Publishing, and Interdisciplinary Curating; Public History; Rhetoric and Composition; and Scientific and Technical Communication. Use the links below to explore <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW236035098 BCX0\">some of our latest scholarship, our students&#8217; and alumni&#8217;s work in the field, and the dissertations that anchor our research community.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP Selected SCXW236035098 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col border-secondary text-primary pl-3\" style=\"border-left: 2px solid\">\n<h3 class=\"pb-2 text-primary\">Quick Links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><a class=\"text-secondary\" href=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/textstech\/publications\/\">Recent Faculty Publications<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><a class=\"text-secondary\" href=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/textstech\/alumni-publications\/\">Recent Student and Alumni Publications<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><a class=\"text-secondary\" href=\"https:\/\/stars.library.ucf.edu\/tandtthesesdissertations\/\">Dissertations<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-7\">\n<p>Faculty and students engage in research across humanities disciplines like English, History, Writing and Rhetoric, and Philosophy, combined with technologies like <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarlyediting.org\/issues\/39\/a-generative-praxis\/\">digital archiving and editing<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/abstract\/document\/9201213\">visualization<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1145\/3507454.3507456\">web design<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1145\/3465336.3475094\">game design<\/a>. Student <a href=\"https:\/\/stars.library.ucf.edu\/tandtthesesdissertations\/\">dissertations<\/a> explore diverse topics ranging from neuronarratives that centralize brain or consciousness in storytelling, to Digital Humanities applications in community college libraries, to the pedagogical use of Instagram in first-year composition courses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-7\">\n<p>Work in the program uses a variety of methods, with students and faculty employing approaches from <a href=\"https:\/\/stars.library.ucf.edu\/etd2020\/1848\/\">critical code studies<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/stars.library.ucf.edu\/etd2020\/1277\/\">digital archives<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/stars.library.ucf.edu\/etd2020\/1440\/\">augmented reality language learning technologies<\/a>. <span data-contrast=\"auto\"> T&amp;T students and faculty also work on projects such as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chdr.cs.ucf.edu\/elle\/home\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">ELLE: The EndLess LEarner language learning games project<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vlp.cah.ucf.edu\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Veterans Legacy Program to create biographies of veterans buried in national cemeteries<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chdr.cah.ucf.edu\/print\/index.html\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">People, Religion, Information Networks, and Travel (PRINT), which traces 17th and 18th century communication networks among European religious minorities<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. <\/span>This work is supported by the resources of a major research university, but takes place in a program small enough that faculty and students collaborate closely across projects.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-7\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/textstech\/our-alumni\/\">Alumni of the Texts and Technology program<\/a> have gone on to such positions as: Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of Digital Media, Director of Course Design and Production, Dean of Distance Learning, and Managing Editor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"jumbotron jumbotron-fluid bg-info text-secondary mb-0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"float-md-right img-fluid d-flex ml-3 mb-3 size-medium wp-image-678 hidden-sm\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/textstech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2025\/07\/FrancineSuttonheadshot.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Francine\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/textstech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2025\/07\/FrancineSuttonheadshot.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Francine\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"blockquote blockquote-quotation-inverse\"><p>Texts and Technology is a unique program, almost like building your own academic adventure based on your research interests. 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