A column by Associate Professor Bonnie Mak and Julia Pollack (MS ’12) appears in the July/August 2016 issue of the Association for Computing Machinery magazine, Interactions. In their column, “On the Design of the Humanities,” Mak and Pollack introduce the design of the humanities to audiences in human-computer interaction. They discuss how their “cabinet of curiosity” art exhibit helped visualize and explain the intersection of research, scholarship, and argument in the humanities.
Mak is jointly appointed in the iSchool and the Program in Medieval Studies. She teaches courses in the history and future of the book, and offers doctoral seminars on authenticity, reading practices, and knowledge production. Her first book, How the Page Matters (2011), examines the interface of the page as it is developed across time, geographies, and technologies. A second book-length project, Confessions of a 21st-Century Memsahib, offers a critique of the digital materials with which scholarship is increasingly conducted.
Pollack is an independent artist in New York. She is completing an advanced degree in digital humanities at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and works as a reference librarian at CUNY-Bronx Community College.