Digital Scholarship Summer Fellows Program

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About

The Digital Scholarship Summer Fellows (DSSF) program is a paid, full-time summer internship opportunity for Bryn Mawr students to learn digital research and publication methods and gain professional experience by collaborating on a public-facing digital scholarship project. Over the course of eight weeks, we will explore key issues and methods in digital scholarship, critical making, and multi-modal research through a combination of hands-on work, instruction, and discussion. Fellows will also have opportunities to present their work, create a personal digital portfolio, and learn about careers in libraries, museums, and digital media and research.

2026 Program

Project - Paul Thomas Annotated: In The Margins

Paul Thomas Annotated: In the Margins is an open access resource devoted to the filmography of Paul Thomas Anderson. Our project involves annotating, scene by scene, screenshots from each of his ten narrative films to date (Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood, The Master, Inherent Vice, Phantom Thread, Licorice Pizza, One Battle After Another).

We aim to make PTA’s films more accessible to audiences including scholars, students, filmmakers, fans, and casual viewers. We provide commentary via annotations that address the many parts of these films: mise-en-scène, dialogue, camerawork, character, intertextuality, intratextuality, narrative, and other analytical and aesthetic elements. Each image includes alt-text, as well as metadata that allows readers to sort images through technical filters related to the visual aspects of each shot or thematic tags that facilitate connections among the films.

Our approach is rooted in the concept of margins. PTA’s protagonists—whether porn actors, a misanthropic oil magnate, or eccentrics who fall into each other’s romantic orbits—consistently reside outside various accepted societal boundaries. On another level, we view our annotations as marginalia akin to the notes left on the edges of a book, film script, or image. Individually, these commentaries provide users with key insights into the workings of the films; taken together, they contribute to broader readings.

Fellows

Lucia Engelhardt

Grace Muller

Clara Smith

Tallulah Stallvik

Mentors

Alice McGrath - Program Director, Senior Digital Scholarship Specialist (BMC LITS)

José Vergara - Faculty Director, Associate Professor (BMC Russian)

Hilde Nelson - Digital Scholarship Graduate Assistant (BMC HART)

Tessa Eisen - Educational & Scholarly Technology Specialist (BMC LITS)

Jennifer Alpert - Co-director of Paul Thomas Annotated project (Oregon State University)