Events and News
On April 13 at 3:00 p.m., Dr. Joanne Britland, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Digital Humanities in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Florida, will present a session on the use of digital tools in humanities teaching and research. Focusing on platforms such as Google Sites and StoryMaps, she will discuss practical ways of integrating these resources into literature and culture courses in order to foster student engagement, collaboration, and public-facing work.
The session will also invite participants to reflect on their own teaching and research practices and to consider new directions for digital pedagogy and humanities initiatives at UF.
On February 23 at 2:00 p.m., the France-Florida Research Institute is hosting a brand new seminar as part of its Environmental Humanities series. Dr. Sean Singh Matharoo, Assistant Professor & Jacques Hardré Fellow of French and Francophone Studies at the University of North Carolina, will speak to us about AI and energy in francophone fiction.
Sean Singh Matharoo is Assistant Professor & Jacques Hardré Fellow of French and Francophone Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where they work on 20th and 21st century French, Francophone, and Anglophone literature, media, and philosophy.
They have published articles in Horror Studies, Green Letters, Alienocene, Mosaic, and SITES, as well as a book chapter in Philip K. Dick: Essays of the Here and Now (McFarland, 2020).
Alongside Chris Reyns-Chikuma, they co-edited the 2025 special issue of Alternative francophone (U of Alberta) on “Imaginaires francophones de l’intelligence artificielle.” Matharoo is currently writing a book on the poetics of speculative fiction and how it relates to questions of energy and AI.
The Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures is launching the LALI-Center Working Group, a new forum for colleagues and students interested in the intersections between languages, literatures, cultures, and emerging technologies.
Over the course of the semester, the group will host three sessions featuring researchers from UF and invited guests from other institutions working on environmental humanities, digital humanities, and AI-driven pedagogies. A dedicated LALI-Center website is also being launched, providing a hub where LLC projects exploring new technologies in our fields can be shared and showcased.
The first talk will be by Dr. Curtis Maughan.
Join us for our inaugural meeting entitled, “Games and DH for the LLC classroom?” on January 28th, at 3:00 p.m. in Pugh 302! We hope to see you there.