Kayla Shipp

Kayla Shipp (she/they) is the program manager for the Computational Methods & Data department at Yale University Library, where she manages the department’s outreach and engagement programs and the Digital Humanities Lab. She received her M.A. in digital humanities from King’s College London and her Ph.D. in English from Emory University. Kayla’s research explores the poetics of code and material culture from the nineteenth century to the present and has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

At Yale Kayla supports research programs, projects, and services for faculty, students, and staff, focused on expanding the library’s efforts in generative AI, machine learning, and other computational research methods in digital humanities, geospatial solutions, and statistics. She previously managed digital project collaborations with partners such as Oxford University, the University of Edinburgh, the Ashmolean Museum, the Yale Quantum Institute, and the Atlanta History Center. She currently serves as Yale’s representative for the International Alliance of Research Universities’ Digital Transformation Working Group, and as a reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Digital Humanities Advancement Grants and the American Council of Learned Societies’ Open Access Book Prize.