Harris, Katherine D.
Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives, College of Humanities & the Arts
Professor of Literature & Digital Humanities, Department of English & Comparative
Literature
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Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives, College of Humanities & the Arts
For most current teaching, research, upcoming talks, publications, blog posts, conference
presentations, see Dr. Harris' triproftri blog.
Current Research Interests:
Printing press to ChatGPT: Digital Humanities, Digital Pedagogy, History of the Book,
Romantic & 19th-Century literature & culture, women's poetry, textual theory, gender
theory, feminist theory, digital literature, 19th-Century novel, textual editing,
bibliography
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2005
- Women's Studies Certificate, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2005
- Master of Arts, Literature, New York Univ, 1999
- Bachelor of Arts, Literature, CSU-Los Angeles, 1994
Bio
Katherine D. Harris is Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives, Campus and Community Partnerships for the College of Humanities & the Arts and Professor of Literature & Digital Humanities at San José State University. Her work connects humanities leadership, digital pedagogy, public engagement, and emerging technologies.
She is author of Forget Me Not: The Rise of the British Literary Annual and co-editor of the award-winning Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities. A longtime Digital Humanities leader, she has contributed to Project Bamboo, the 2011 “Future of DH” conversation, DH@CSU Consortium, and SJSU’s Advanced Institute for Ethical Technologies. As the inagural director of the Artistic Excellence Programming Grant initiative and the architect of H&A in Action, Harris collaborates with college leadership on creating community engagement, uplifting faculty research/scholarly/creative activities, and embedding the best of humanities and the arts into curricular initiatives.
She chaired the statewide, legislatively-mandated California Open Educational Resources Council as well as several years of the College’s Retention, Tenure & Promotion Committee. Her recent Debates in the Digital Humanities articles address DH at teaching-intensive institutions and rebuilding DH infrastructure. In 2026 and 2027, she co-led the Digital Humanities Summer Institute's “Digital Humanities Leadership” seminar.
Her current research project leverages institutional resources and Silicon Valley relationships to digitize 19th-century serials published in the British Empire and Bengal in collaboration with the Internet Archive in order to facilitate studying "intimate imperialism" in 35,000 pages of literary text and 1,000 engravings from nineteenth-century periodicals using machine learning. You can find her as @triproftri on BlueSky or visit her Wordpress site.