STELLA

The STELLA (Software for Teaching English Language & Literature and its Assessment) Digital Humanities Lab at Glasgow is the UK's only dedicated computer laboratory for teaching English studies, and has been a key site of pioneering work in computer-assisted learning, corpus linguistics, and experimental digital humanities research on large-scale collections of language and literature since 1987. ‌‌‌

The principal aim of the STELLA project has been to develop teaching packages which can be incorporated into courses and enhance learning. The material can be introduced to students at timetabled sessions, blended or flipped modes, or wholly remotely. The STELLA lab itself is open to be timetabled for courses within the arts and humanities at Glasgow, and students are also encouraged to return to the STELLA lab and use the materials during free access sessions either as part of their course, out of interest, or as revision.

As English Studies encompasses a wide range of subject areas and techniques, the interests of teaching and research staff involved in the STELLA project therefore range from language teaching and linguistics to the formal and conceptual properties of texts in English and Scots. We have a large library of corpora for use in research, and at the same time bring into teaching and student research databases produced at Glasgow such as the Historical Thesaurus of English.