Kevin G. McDonald recently sat down with Dr. Felipe to discuss, among other topics, her personal trajectory to serving as the Director of EPIC, to learn about the program’s most recent efforts to serve the graduate student and faculty communities here at UCLA, and to discuss EPIC’s relationship to the Digital Humanities and how that is being realized at UCLA with the Center for Digital Humanities (CDH).
Dr. Felipe also generously provided a teaser of what to expect at the Inaugural EPIC Conference coming up on April 5th and 6th in Royce Hall at UCLA. In addition to illuminating the mission of EPIC, the conversation yielded some very candid insights into both Dr. Felipe’s and Kevin’s own pedagogical formation, as well as the realities of the job market and career opportunities beyond academia for PhDs.