Devin Becker

Associate Dean, Research and Instruction, University of Idaho Library, University of Idaho

Digital Libraries

Digital Humanities

Poetry

Web Design

Library Science

Biography & Scholarship

Devin Becker is the Associate Dean for Research and Instruction at the University of Idaho Library, where he co-directs the Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning (CDIL). He directs the development of CollectionBuilder, an open-source framework for creating digital collections and exhibits that has been adopted by libraries and cultural heritage institutions worldwide. His digital scholarship projects—including Storying Extinction, Oral History as Data, and Digital Dramaturgy—explore new approaches to archival presentation and public humanities. His first book of poetry, Shame | Shame, was awarded the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize and published by BOA Editions, Ltd. in 2015.

Honors

Literature Fellowship

Idaho Commission on the Arts, 2017

A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize

BOA Editions LTD, 2015

Organizational Affiliations

Associate Dean, Research and Instruction, University of Idaho Library, University of Idaho

Co-Director, Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning, University of Idaho Library, University of Idaho

Highlights - Output

Book

Shame | Shame

by Devin C Becker

Published 04/14/2015

Devin Becker’s Poulin Prize-winning collection investigates two types of shame: that which disgraces, and that which curbs and keeps. Set in the mundane everyday where lives maneuver around other lives, conversations are clumsy, and a co-worker is the only one without a party invite, these confessional, narrative poems humorously dramatize the socially awkward moments of life.