Molly Des Jardin

Academic Interests

Commons Groups

MLA

Recent Commons Activity

joined the group LLC Japanese since 1900
joined the group LLC Japanese to 1900
joined the group TM Book History, Print Cultur…
joined the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century
joined the group CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century

About

I’ve moved on from humanities and academia, but leaving a profile of my work here for posterity.

I am a former librarian and scholar of Japanese book history, specializing in the Meiji-period publishing world (1880s-1910s). I was also active in the broad yet niche area of East Asian Digital Humanities, teaching a semester-long course at UPenn and many other related workshops.

My CORE deposits include:

syllabus for the East Asian Digital Humanities course I developed and taught in 2018

peer-reviewed, final or preprint versions of published articles on Japanese book history

co-authored book chapters with fellow librarian Michael P. Williams, on successful initiatives we developed for the University of Pennsylvania’s Japanese collection

conference presentations related to book history or teaching DH

Please feel free to repurpose, reuse, and build on any of my East Asian DH resources here or on my website, including the always-work-in-progress EADH syllabus (direct PDF link, revised version since HCommons deposit). I’m keeping all of this online and available in the hope it can meet some of the high student demand I encountered over the years. Credit is always appreciated but not necessary.

Education

MS Information Science and PhD/MA Japanese (University of Michigan)

BS Computer Science and BA History (University of Pittsburgh)

Blog Posts

KCWorks

Book section
- Building a Japanese Manga Collection for Non-Traditional Patrons in an Academic Library (2020)
- Leveraging Local Networks and International Partnerships in Japanese Collection Development (2019)
Conference paper
- Teaching “East Asian DH” (2019)
- Constructing Our Canon(s): Reprinting & Digitizing Literary Heritage (2018)
Review
- Review: The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan: Histories and Cultures of the Book (Sari Kawana) (2019)
Syllabus
- EALC111-511 East Asian Digital Humanities (Spring 2018) (2018)
Journal article
- Inventing Saikaku: Collectors, Provenance, and the Social Creation of an Author (2017)

Memberships

UPenn WORD LAB (co-founder and organizer, 2014-2020): language technology meetup group that met weekly in the library. Now defunct, but visit the archived homepage for details about past speakers and topics.

DH Japan (co-founder and organizer until 2021): active professional organization to support researchers with tech training, networking, and events. Online resources include a mailing list, tool and software databases, scholar directory, and more.

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