Owen Monroe
Doctoral Candidate
PhD, Information Sciences, Illinois (in progress)
MA, Teaching Early Childhood Education, National Louis University
BA, English and Art History, Columbia University
Pronouns: he/him
Research focus
Owen studies digital humanities, and he uses book history and text mining methods to analyze early Victorian periodicals. He investigates mass media texts and the history of science and knowledge. He also studies digital humanities pedagogy and digital project sustainability.
Field Exam Area: Popular Print Analytics (field examination passed in October 2025)
Dissertation Title: Knowledge Magazines: Periodical Genre Forms and the History of Science (preliminary examination passed May 2026)
Honors and Awards
- Teacher Ranked Excellent (Spring 2025, Summer 2025, Fall 2025)
- Spring 2026 CITL Graduate Teacher Certificate
Advisors
Publications & Papers
Han, M.-J. K., & Monroe, O. (2025). Enhancing Discovery with AI: Volume Extraction and Summary Statements for Holdings Metadata. Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, 2025.https://doi.org/10.23106/dcmi.952591060.
Presentations
Monroe, O., & Young, R. (2026, January). Digital projects showcase: MinDoc and SourceLab [Panel presentation]. American Historical Society, Chicago, IL, United States.
Monroe, O., & Han, M.-J. K. (2025, October). Enhancing discovery with AI: Volume extraction and summary statements for holdings metadata [Short paper presentation]. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, Barcelona, Spain.
Monroe, O., & LeBlanc, Z. (2025, July). Programming pedagogies: Exploring GitHub as a platform for coding training in DH [Poster presentation]. Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, Lisbon, Portugal.
Monroe, O. (2025, July). Networking nature: Science in the early Victorian political press [Short paper presentation]. Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, Lisbon, Portugal.
Monroe, O. (2025, July). Networking nature: Science in the early Victorian political press [Short paper presentation]. Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, Rochester, NY, United States.
Monroe, O. (2024, July). Science and religion in knowledge periodical text re-use [Poster presentation]. Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, Reading, United Kingdom.
Monroe, O. (2024, April 19). Science and religion in knowledge periodical text re-use [Panel presentation]. Victorian Popular Fiction Association & British Society for Literature and Science, Manchester, United Kingdom.