FACILITIES AT UTEP

The Borderlands Digital Humanities Center’s physical location in Library 201 is under renovation and will open at the start of the Fall 2025 semester. UTEP offers several other research and production spaces that students and faculty interested in digital humanities work would find useful.

• Special Collections: The UTEP Library Special Collections include approximately 750 manuscript collections. A select few of the image and manuscript collections have been highlighted to give you a sense of some of what exists there. Most are yet to be digitized and are rich resources for research and for develop digital archive and database projects.
• The Learning Studio: UGLC 110 provides a studio space to create audio and video content in a studio setting. Faculty, staff, and students can reserve the space to record podcasts or videocasts with access to green screen and light board technology.
• Gaia Maker’s Space: UGLC 202 offers a maker space fitted with a number of technologies including 3D printing, audio mixers, MySQL database software, 3D modeling and gaming software like Unity and Maya, and soon an AR/VR environment.
• The Interactive Collaboration Lab: IDRB 2.217 provides touch visualization technology for display and manipulating data sets as well as virtual reality tools for immersive data visualizations.
• The Visual Lab: IDRB 2.215 includes a high resolution visualization wall that allows researchers to share, analyze, and explore large data sets in a collaborative environment.
• The Creative Team at InSPIRE: This team of media professionals collaborate with faculty and academic departments to build technology support projects.

Research Guides on DH

Many useful guides exist to support faculty and students developing their methodological practices in digital humanities.

• UTEP’s Introduction to Metadata
• The University of Tennessee’s Digital Humanities Research Guide
• New York University’s Digital Humanities Research Guide
• The University of California Irvine’s Digital Humanities Research Guide

If you are new to the field, there are many open access books and journals that explore the broader landscape of the field, but here are a few good starting points.

• Debates in Digital Humanities: features 12 books, some more specific like The Digital Black Atlantic and others more general like What We Teach When We Teach DH.  
• Punctum Books: includes a half dozen open access books on digital humanities.
• ADHO Journals: published nine journals in digital humanities, including an open access journal, DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly.