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. At UofA, she is an affiliate of the Division of Late Medieval and Early Reformation studies, the English Department and the Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English program. Previously, she was Literary Informatics Librarian at Penn State University (University Park, PA, USA).

Heather earned her PhD and Masters of Research from the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK), where she studied language, variation, and change through the representations of social identity in Shakespeare and other Early Modern London plays; before that, she studied English and Linguistics at the University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH, USA).

She was previously involved with the Mellon-Funded Visualizing English Print 1470-1800 project between Strathclyde, UW-Madison and the Folger Shakespeare Library and has substantial expertise in using the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership transcriptions for literary, linguistic and historical research. Heather has served on advisory boards for library databases such as ProQuest/Clarivate’s Early European Books database from 2021-2023, and is an active member of the AM North American Librarian Advisory Board since 2022.

She is especially invested 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. Her zotero account may be a useful resource for getting a sense of her methodological and analytical background.

She has taught Renaissance and Enlightenment literature, literary criticism, print culture, stylistics, corpus methods, and digital humanities. She regularly advises on projects, including the Zooniverse’s transcription processes (Adler Planetarium, Chicago), The Shared Churches Project (University of Arizona/University of Oregon/Oxford Brookes), and the Archeology of Reading project (UCL/Johns Hopkins/Princeton). She is an instructor for the Mellon-funded Digital Borderlands In the Classroom initiative at the University of Arizona Libraries between 2024-2026.

An ongoing list of her collaborators can be found here. Two pictures of her for promotional materials can be found here: (1) (2). Both photos were taken by Leslie Hawthorne Klinger at the University of Arizona’s department of Research, Innovation, and Impact.

A copy of her CV is available upon request. 

Notes for speakers: My name is pronounced however you prefer; I say “Fro-lick” but I accept all variations as I am not a German speaker. My graduate institution is pronounced with the emphasis on the first syllable, STRATH-clyde.