Charlotte Nunes
Degrees
- PhD (English), University of Texas at Austin | 2013
- MA (English), McGill University | 2007
- BA (English & History), Cornell University | 2004
Charlotte Nunes oversees all departments and operations in Skillman and Kirby Libraries. She provides guidance in such areas as departmental management and staffing, space planning, collection development, digital infrastructure, outreach and communications, donor relations, faculty collaborations, community partnerships, exhibitions, events, and programming. Charlotte works closely with library staff as well as partners across campus and beyond to build capacity for interdisciplinary scholarship, uses of experimental technologies in research and teaching, and exceptional co-curricular, experiential, and professional development opportunities for students.
Charlotte arrived at Lafayette from Southwestern University, where she was a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellow in Academic Libraries from 2014-16. Prior to her role as Dean of Libraries, Charlotte was the Director of Digital Scholarship Services at the libraries from 2016-2023. In 2019, she received an NAACP Image Award from the Easton branch for her work facilitating community-led digital archival collections. In 2020, she was part of the team honored with a Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Award for Access celebrating the Lafayette College Queer Archives Project.
As part of her professional commitments in the field of academic librarianship, Charlotte reviews grant proposals for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). She has reviewed articles for The Oral History Review, and convened a discussion group with the Council on Libraries and Information Resources on “Academic Library Digital Projects to Foster Belonging.” From 2016-2021, she was a board member of the public memory archive, the Texas After Violence Project.
Selected presentations and professional development
- Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges (LVAIC) course, “Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue,” August 27-September 17, 2024
- Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) College Library Director Mentoring Program, 2023-24
- Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges (LVAIC) Higher Education Leadership Institute, 2023-24
- “Challenges in Community-led Archives: Perspectives in Community Memory and Digital Libraries,” co-presented with Gabriel Solis, Digital Library Federation Forum, November 1-10, 2021
- “The Black Bethlehem Project: A Case Study in Collaboration Among Public Libraries, Community Partners, and Academic Libraries,” co-presented with Rayah Levy and Matthew Rothfuss, Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, August 2-6, 2021
- “Critically Data Modelling the Queer Archives Project,” Oral History Association Conference, October 19-24, 2020
- “The Lehigh Valley Engaged Humanities Consortium Digital Archive: Organizing Workflows Among Academic Libraries, Public Libraries, and Community Partners,” ACRL webinar “Constructing Digital Humanities Grant Proposals as a Librarian,” June 29, 2020
- “Transformative Archives-Based Humanities Pedagogy” (panel chair) and “Distant-Reading Audiovisual Oral History Narratives: An Ethical Approach,” Modern Language Association Convention, January 9-12, 2020
- “Challenges and Rewards of Community-Engaged Collection-Building: The Lehigh Valley Engaged Humanities Consortium Digital Archive,” Coalition for Networked Information Membership Meeting, December 9-10, 2019
- “The Queer Archives Project: Extending Humanities Inquiry into STEM Education,” Oral History Association Conference, October 16-20, 2019
- Harvard Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians, July 28-August 2, 2019
- Machine Learning for Cross-Disciplinary Research Workshop, sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Columbia University, April 25, 2019
- Grinnell College Data Science Workshop, June 11-13, 2018
- “Dissenting Documents: A Roundtable on Teaching with Special Collections,” American Studies Association Conference, November 9-12, 2017
- “Tracking Digital Projects, Managing Digital Assets: Twin Challenges at Lafayette College Digital Scholarship Services,” Digital Library Federation Forum, October 23-25, 2017
- “Oral History, Information Literacy, and the Public Humanities: The Texas After Violence Project and ‘The Rhetoric of Human Rights,’” Oral History Association Conference, October 10-13, 2017
- “Sharing [True] Stories: Supporting and Sustaining Collaborative Digital Oral History Archives and Research,” with Rachel Walton, Oberlin Digital Scholarship Conference, June 10-12, 2016
- “The Latina History Project at Southwestern University: Highlighting Latina/o Archives Using Omeka,” Modern Language Association Conference, January 7-10, 2016
- “Archival Practices” Roundtable, Modern Language Association Conference, January 7-10, 2016
- “Modernism and Digital Archives Workshop,” Modernist Studies Association Conference, November 19-22, 2015
- “Digital Humanities as Public Humanities: Digital Oral History Collections and Community Engaged Undergraduate Education,” Keystone Digital Humanities Conference, July 22-24, 2015
- “Using Omeka to Forge Partnerships with Faculty: Reflections and a Case Study, ” HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) Conference, May 27-30, 2015
- “Assessment Challenges in the Digital Humanities/Digital Archives Curriculum,” HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) Conference, May 27-30, 2015
- “Enhancing Access to UT Libraries Digital Oral History Collections as a Mode of Undergraduate Education: A Partnership Among Southwestern University, the Texas After Violence Project, and the Human Rights Documentation Initiative,” Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, April 27-28, 2015
- “Digital Oral History Collections: Implications for Innovation in the Humanities,” Texas Digital Humanities Conference, April 9-11, 2015
- “Archives and Digital Humanities,” Coalition for Networked Information Fall Meeting, December 8-9, 2014
Selected publications
- Transforming the Authority of the Archive: Undergraduate Pedagogy and Critical Digital Archives, co-edited with Andi Gustavson, August 2023, Lever Press
- “Using Digital Scholarship Methods and Tools to Enhance and Transform Learning during COVID-19 at a Liberal Arts College,” co-authored with Janna Avon, Anne Houston, and Angela Perkins, New Review of Academic Librarianship, 27:3, 2021
- “Community-Based Digital Archives to Support Diversifying Campuses and Enhance Community Involvement,” co-authored with S. Abu Turab Rizvi, portal: Libraries and the Academy, 21:1, 2021
- “‘A Cracked Sheet-Glass Mirror’: Conditions of Collaboration at the 1945 P.E.N. All-India Writers’ Conference,” Literature & History, 48:1, 2019
- “Bloomsbury Conversations That Didn’t Happen: Indian Writing Between British Modernism and Anti-Colonialism,” co-authored with Snehal Shingavi in British Literature in Transition, 1920-1940 (eds. Charles Ferrall and Dougal McNeill), Cambridge University Press, 2018
- “‘Connecting to the Ideologies That Surround Us’: Oral History Stewardship as an Entry Point to Critical Theory in the Undergraduate Classroom,” Oral History Review, 44.2, 2017
- “Archival Absence and Presence: A Review of Archives-Oriented Panels at MLA 2017,” Archive Journal, February 2017
- “Digital Archives in the Wired World Literature Classroom,” ARIEL, 46:1-2, 2015