Current Projects

Annually, since the fall semester of 2020, this Transnational Digital Creation Workshop, bringing together small teams of RIT graduate and advanced undergraduate students and graduate students at l’Université de Paris 8, has allowed students to develop creative digital installations of their own design.

CES is pleased to announce that it has received funding from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation's New ERA Women Writers Grant again this fall of 2022. These funds will allow us to offer a second week-long summer workshop - Gathering Stories: Digital Storytelling Workshop for Young Women in 11th-12th grades -  July 10-14, 2023, as we did in July 2021.

Have you ever wondered how story might provide impactful ways to engage students in STEM learning?  This project, led by Clark Hochgraf, Associate Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Telecommunications Engineering Technology, Jeanne Christman, Associate Professor of Engineering Technology, and Laura Shackelford, Professor of English at RIT, focuses on developing workshops, classroom modules, and faculty development opportunities.

Growing out of several workshops and exchanges with Dr. Helen Atawube Yitah, Professor of English and Dean of the School of Languages, University of Ghana, Accra, this project explores the potential of digital technologies to enhance understanding of oral, written, and multimedia storytelling practices generated at distinct cultural sites around the world.

“Sculptures in the Air” is a project supported by a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

In May 2026, Prof. Laura Shackelford will serve as a Fulbright Specialist, leading a two-week seminar on Digital Storytelling for Students and Future Educators at Università del Piemonte Orientale (UPO) in Northern Italy.  The practice-based seminar will introduce students to digital storytelling, multimodal narrative, and interdisciplinary digital tools.