This semester, students in Sarah Bilston’s Victorian Short Fiction class read a Charles Dickens short story, “The Bloomsbury Christening,” which follows the irascible Mr. Nicodemus Dumps on a trek through Victorian London. Then, with help from their professor and RIT staff, students used a digital tool to create a map of the character’s journey. In the digital humanities, scholars use technology to engage with history, literature, and the arts. Digital humanities assignments and projects also expand the possibilities of undergraduate scholarship; they invite students to explore texts in new ways, to relate personally to course material, and to gain experience writing for a public audience. For this digital humanities assignment,…