Changes will be made to the schedule as needed, and will be updated here.
January 14 – Introduction
January 21 – Digital Humanities: Definitions & Examples
• Julia Flanders, “The Productive Unease of 21-century Digital Scholarship”
• Susan Hockney, “The History of Humanities Computing”
• Matt Kirschenbaum, “What Is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments?”
• Stephen Ramsay & Geoff Rockwell “Developing Things: Notes toward an Epistemology of Building in the Digital Humanities”
• Lisa Spiro, “This Is Why We Fight”
• review selected projects
January 28 – Creating, Collecting, Sharing: Digital Collections
• Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin, from Remediation
• Matt Cohen, “Design and Politics in Electronic American Literary Archives”
• Ed Folsom, “Database as Genre” and responses by McGann, McGill, & Hayles
• Lisa Gitelman, from “New Media </Body>”
• Jerome McGann, “Imagining What You Don’t Know”
• Tara McPherson, “Post-Archive”
• optional: Ken Price, “Edition, Project, Database, Archive”
February 4 – Creating, Collecting, Sharing: Scholarly Communications
• Kathleen Fitzpatrick, selections from Planned Obsolescence (read all of the “Introduction: Obsolescence” and “Two: Authorship” sections, and read several more sub-sections of your choosing)
• MLA “Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media” (you might want to look at/for similar guidelines by other academic organizations that represent different communities or disciplines)
• Bethany Nowviskie, “Where Credit Is Due”
• Mark Sample, “The digital humanities is not about building, it’s about sharing”
• Martha Nell Smith, “Democratizing Knowledge”
• Peter Suber, “What Open Access Is” in Open Access
February 11 – Digital/Human(ities)
• Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, “Scenes of Empowerment: Virtual Racial Diversity and Digital Divides”
• Amy Earhart “Can Information Be Unfettered? Race and the New Digital Humanities Canon”
• N. Katherine Hayles, “Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifier”
• Tara McPherson “Why Are the Digital Humanities So White? or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation”
• Jacqueline Wernimont “Whence Feminism? Assessing Feminist Interventions in Digital Literary Archives”
• Invisible Australians and this blog post by one of its makers
February 18 – Lab Day: Collections & NER
February 25 – Distant Reading
• Matthew Jockers, “Macroanalysis” and “Metadata” from Macroanalysis
• Stephen Ramsay, “An Algorithmic Criticism”
• N. Katherine Hayles, “How We Read”
In class: attend Laura Mandell’s talk on “Gender & Big Data”
March 3 – Distant Reading x2
• Franco Moretti, “Graphs”
• Ryan Cordell, “Reprinting, Circulation, and the Network Author in Antebellum Newspapers,” along with the methods paper
• Stanley Fish “Mind Your P’s and B’s”
• Ted Underwood, “Do humanists get their ideas from anything at all?” (response to Fish)
March 10 – Distant Reading x 3
• Matthew Jockers, “Theme” from Macroanalysis
• Matthew Jockers, “The LDA Buffet is Now Open: or, Latent Dirichlet Allocation for English Majors”
• Lisa Rhody, “Some Assembly Required”
• Ted Underwood, “Topic Modeling Made Just Simple Enough”
• Scott Weingart, “Topic Modeling for Humanists”
March 17 – NO CLASS Lab Day: Final Projects
March 24 – NO CLASS Spring Break
Note: class members determined the topics (and, to some extent, the readings) of the following three weeks.
March 31 – Digital Pedagogy / Digital Humanities Pedagogy
• Elizabeth Losh, “Utopian Pedagogies”
• Ryan Cordell, “How Not to Teach the Digital Humanities”
• Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg, pp. 8-35 from The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age
• “Description” and “Interface” from Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities
• Jonathan Sterne, “The Computer Race Goes to Class”
• Find one assignment, syllabus, or resource for dh pedagogy that you’d like to use in your own teaching. Post it on our course blog, and show us (or write about) how you would use it.
A few other resources: Digital Humanities Pedagogy, ed. Brett D. Hirsch; The Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy; Hybrid Pedagogy; Paul Fyfe, “Digital Pedagogy Unplugged“; Sean Michael Morris, “Decoding Digital Pedagogy, Part I” and Jesse Stommel, “Decoding Digital Pedagogy, Part II“; Tanya Clement, “Teaching DH: On Pedagogy and Digital Humanities“; Cathy Davidson, Now You See It (pdf excerpt on moodle); Cathy Davidson, Coursera MOOC on “History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education”
April 7 – Digital Humanities Communities
A class-sourced & curated set of readings:
•Abigail De Kosnik “Personal Theory: A Method for Humanities Scholarship in a New Media Moment” (find it here when logged on to LSU)
• TransformDH site and Tumblr
• Miriam Posner, “Here and There: Creating DH Community”
• Matthew Gold, “Facts, Patterns, Methods, Meaning: Public Knowledge Building in the Digital Humanities”
• Moya Z. Bailey “All the Digital Humanists Are White, All the Nerds are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave”
• Bethany Nowviskie, “On the Origin of ‘Hack’ and ‘Yack’”
• Natalia Ceceire, “When DH Was in Vogue; or, THATCamp Theory”
April 14 – Interface
• Johanna Drucker, from Graphesis
• Matt Kirschenbaum, “‘So the Colors Cover the Wires’”
• OPTIONAL: review some user interface guidelines, such as:
– “Designing Software that Is Accessible to Individuals with Disabilities”
– “User Interface Guidelines for Supporting Accessibility”
– “Cross-cultural Considerations for User Interface Design”
April 21 – Visualization
• read about TOME, especially essay in DSH
• Lauren Klein, “The Image of Absence: Archival Silence, Data Visualization, and James Hemings”
• Workshop with Klein, 1-3pm
