Heather Froehlich

Dr. Heather Froehlich is the Digital Scholarship Specialist at the University of Arizona Libraries in Tucson, Arizona, where she supports digital activities including text and data mining. Previously, she was Literary Informatics Librarian at Penn State University (University Park, PA, USA). She was previously involved with the Mellon-Funded Visualizing English Print 1470-1800 project between Strathclyde, UW-Madison and the Folger Shakespeare Library. She also attended Early Modern Digital Agendas I, an NEH-funded Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library, as a participant and as on-site technical support, in 2013. She has expertise in using the EEBO-TCP transcriptions for literary, linguistic and historical research using computers.

Heather Froehlich is especially interested in ways one can use off-the-shelf software and platforms as a route into text analysis and other digital methods. She enjoys collaborating across the disciplines though her training is primarily in corpus stylistics, historical sociolinguistics, literary linguistics, and digital humanities.

She has taught Renaissance and Enlightenment literature, literary criticism, print culture, stylistics, corpus methods, and digital humanities. She regularly advises on projects, including Digital Beaumont and Fletcher and What's in a Recipe?  (Penn State).

Heather Froehlich is a co-PI on the Digital Humanities project “Samuel Pepys’s Worlds” (PI: Ute Lotz-Heumann) and a member of the Digital Humanities Specialists Board of the NEH-funded DH project “Shared Churches in Early Modern Europe” (Project director: Beth Plummer).