Schedule

Unit I: Defining Digital Humanities

UNIT II: Geospatial digital humanities

UNIT Iii: reading, viewing, visualizing

UNIT Iii.5: on codes and coding

UNIT IV: text encoding and digital editions

UNIT V: a return to theory (and final projects)

 

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Unit I: Defining Digital Humanities

Tuesday, January 10th

• Course overview

Thursday, January 12th

• Patricia Cohen, “Humanities 2.0: Digital Keys for Unlocking the Humanities’ Riches”
• Matthew Kirschenbaum, “What Is Digital Humanities and What’s it Doing in English Departments”
• William Pannapacker, “Big Tent Digital Humanities,’ A View from the Edge, Part 1”

Due:
First online assignment – Personal Intro

Tuesday, January 17th

• Susan Hockney, “The History of Humanities Computing”
• Patrik Svensson “The Landscape of Digital Humanities”
• Chris Forster, “I’m Chris. Where am I Wrong?”

Thursday, January 19th

• Jhumpa Lahiri, “Sexy” (PDF) <– on “Readings” page

Tool: Google Maps “My Maps”

Due:
Second online assignment – DH Definition Response

UNIT II: Geospatial Digital Humanities

Tuesday, January 24th — BRING LAPTOP

• Jo Guldi, “What is the Spatial Turn?”
• Franco Moretti, “Intro” and “Maps” (Graphs, Maps, Trees 1-2, 35-64)
• Jhumpa Lahiri, “The Third and Final Continent” (PDF)

Tool: Google Earth (download and install) 

Thursday, January 26th

• Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (3-64)
• Janelle Jenstad, “Using Early Modern Maps in Literary Studies: Views and Caveats from London” (PDF)

Tuesday, January 31st

• Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (64-128)
• Stephen Ramsay, “Who’s In and Who’s Out” and “On Building”
• Mark Sample, “The Digital Humanities is Not About Building, It’s About Sharing”

 Tool: New York Public Library “Map Warper”

Thursday, February 2nd – NO CLASS MEETING

• Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (128-end)

Due:
Third online assignment – Mrs. Dalloway Character Analysis

Tuesday, February 7th

• Matt Wilkens, “Canons, Close Reading, and the Evolution of Method” (DitDH)
• Stanley Fish, “Mind your P’s and B’s: The Digital Humanities and Interpretation“
• Ted Underwood, “Do Humanists Get Their Ideas from Anything at All?“
• Daniel Anderson, Waves (Response to a Blog Post)

Thursday, February 9th

Due:

Mapping project group presentation to take place in class.

Written portion must be emailed to me by Monday, February 13^th, at 11:59pm. 

UNIT III: Reading, viewing, visualizing

Tuesday, February 14th

• Sherlock S01E01: ”A Study in Pink” (in-class screening)

Thursday, February 16th

• Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin, “Mediation and Remediation” (online via GT library)

Tuesday, February 21st

• Stefan Sinclair, “Computer Assisted Reading: Reconceiving Text Analysis” (PDF)
• Stephen Ramsay, “The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around; or What You Do with a Million Books“

Thursday, February 23rd

• Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Scandal in Bohemia” (PDF)
• Franco Moretti, “Trees,” (GMT 67-92)

Tuesday, February 28th

In class:

• Professor Geoffrey Rockwell guest lecture (via Skype)

Due:
Fourth online assignment – text analysis

In class:

• Professor John Stasko guest lecture (in person)

 Tool: Jigsaw 

Tuesday, March 6th

• Sherlock S02E01: “A Scandal in Belgravia” (as much as we get through; I’ll put the rest up online)

Due:
Reflection must be emailed to me by Wednesday, March 7^th, at 11:59pm. 

Thursday, March 8th:

• Stanley Fish, “Mind your P’s and B’s: The Digital Humanities and Interpretation“
• Ted Underwood, “Do Humanists Get Their Ideas from Anything at All?“
• Daniel Anderson, Waves (Response to a Blog Post)

Unit III.5: On codes and Coding

Tuesday, March 13th

• Relevant Sherlock clip (on Vimeo)
• Writing as Programming as Writing (on Vimeo)
• Timothy Morton, Should Computer “Langauges” Qualify as Foreign Languages for Ph.D.s?
• Ian Bogost, Computers are Systems, Not Langauges

Thursday, March 15th

• Lee Ann Ghajar, “I Code, You Code, We Code… Why Code?“
• Michael Widner, “Learn to Code; Learn Code Culture“
• Miriam Posner, “Some Things to Think About Before You Exhort Everyone to Code“
• Bethany Nowviskie, “Don’t Circle the Wagons“
• James Gottlieb, “Coding and Digital Humanities“
• Miriam Posner, “Things We Share“

Tuesday, March 20th

• NO CLASS MEETING – Spring Break

Thursday, March 22nd

• NO CLASS MEETING – Spring Break

UNIT IV: TEXT ENCODING AND DIGITAL EDITIONS

Tuesday, March 27^th

• NO CLASS MEETING –Day of Digital Humanities Online Assignment
• See the “Assignments” page or your email for additional information on this assignment.

Thursday, March 29^th

Tuesday, April 3rd

• Jean Bauer, “Who You Calling Untheoretical?“
• Peter Robinson, “What text really is not, and why editors have to learn to swim” (PDF)
• TEI-L, selected messages:
• “Changes on the TEI Board”
• “Re: Changes on the TEI Board” (including letter, link within)
• “Statement from the TEI Technical Council”
• “The Future of the TEI” (including statement, link within)
• “Future of the TEI” (and skim subsequent thread)
• “Present and Future of TEI” (and skim subsequent thread)
• “’Full statement’ from the Board? Where?” (and skim subsequent thread)
• OPTIONAL: Desmond Schmidt, “The Inadequacy of Embedded Markup for Cultural Heritage Texts” (PDF)

Thursday, April 5th

• NO CLASS MEETING – Talk at GVU Center, 11:30-1pm

UNIT V: A RETURN TO THEORY (AND FINAL PROJECTS)

Thursday, April 12^th 

• NO CLASS MEETING – Professor out of town

Due:
Fifth online assignment – Final Project Brainstorm

Tuesday, April 17^th 

• Tom Scheinfeldt, “Where’s the Beef? Does Digital Humanities Have to Answer Questions?” ” (web)
• Alan Liu, Where is Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities” (web)
• Tara McPherson, “Why Are the Digital Humanities So White? or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation” (PDF)

Thursday, April 19^th 

• NO CLASS MEETING – Professor out of town

Due:
Sixth Online Assignment — Final Project Proposal

Tuesday, April 24^th 

• Project Presentations

Thursday, April 26^th 

• Project Presentations

Tuesday, May 1st – Final Project Due