Center for Digital Scholarship

Cody Carvel is a poet, designer, and technologist who came to library science work while undertaking projects to preserve and digitize literary ephemera, short-run periodicals, and at-risk audio-visual materials related to American poetry.

Cody sees the Brown Library and its collections as opportunities to undertake projects on: hidden collections and curation; data collection and normalization for analysis; best practices and technologies for accessibility; improving ways to communicate and disseminate research through traditional and novel design.

Cody has an MFA in Poetry from the University of San Francisco and an AB from Harvard College where they graduated with degrees in African-American Studies and English. More recently, they worked as the researcher, web designer, and audience engagement manager for the Slate/Panoply podcast, Our National Conversation About Conversations on Race (showaboutrace.com). Their poetry has been featured in Userlands, Mirage #4 Period(ical), Edna, Tin House, Yellow Medicine Review, Elderly, and Red Ink.