English Faculty Member Earns 2017 Learn by Doing Scholar Award
Catherine Waitinas, an associate professor in the English Department, earned the 2017 Learn by Doing Scholar Award.
Catherine Waitinas
Administered by Kennedy Library and a cross-college faculty committee, this award recognizes outstanding scholarship within Cal Poly’s signature Learn by Doing pedagogy.
Waitinas received $1,000 for her in-progress research, “Flipping Whitman: Collaborative Learn by Doing in the (Digital) Humanities.” Her work explores how digital manuscripts give students unique historical insights into Walt Whitman’s writing, comparing manuscripts with published poems.
The unification of digital humanities with hands-on literary study has already received praise from the Modern Language Association and promises to expand applications for other new instruction methods.