Week 1 |
Th 8/30 |
Introduction to the
course
Selisker, “Digital
Humanities Knowledge: Reflections on the Introductory Graduate
Syllabus” in Debates 2016
|
Week 2 |
Th 9/6 |
What is the Digital
Humanities?
A Digital Humanities Manifesto
The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0 (PDF version
here)
Manifesto for the
Digital Humanities
D_H, chapter 1
and pp. 122-3
Kirschenbaum, "What
is Digital Humanities and What is it Doing in English Departments?"
in
Debates
Spiro, "'This
is Why We Fight': Defining the Values of the Digital Humanities"
in
Debates
Stanley, "Why
is DH?"
Svensson, "Beyond
the Big Tent"
in
Debates
Svensson, "The
Landscape of Digital Humanities"
Day of DH
in
Debates
|
Quick projects: Dylan Lewis, Lance Lomax
Keywords: Dylan Lewis, Lance Lomax
Secretary: Dustan Hahnel |
Week 3 |
Th 9/13 |
Against DH
Allington, Broulliette, and Golumbia, "Neoliberal
Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities"
Brennan, "The
Digital Humanties Bust"
Golumbia, "The
Destructiveness of Digital Humanities"
Greetham, "The
Resistance to Digital Humanities" in Debates
Grusin, "The
Dark Side of the Digital Humanities"
Hoover, "Argument,
Evidence, and the Limits of Digital Humanities"
Kirsch, "Technology
Is Taking Over English Departments"
Marche, "Literature
is Not Data: Against Digital Humanities"
Stauffer,
“My Old Sweethearts: On
Digitization and the Future of the Print Record” in
Debates
Weiskott, "There
Is No Such Thing as the Digital Humanties"
|
Quick projects: Zak Forkner
Keywords: Zak Forkner
Secretary: Wes Jones |
Week 4 |
Th 9/20 |
DH and justice
Earhart,
“Can Information be Unfettered?”
in Debates
Earhart & Taylor, “Pedagogies of Race: Digital Humanities in the Age
of Ferguson” in Debates 2016
Gaertner, "Why
We Need To Talk About Indigenous Literature in the Digital
Humanities"
Gallon, "Making
a Case for the Black Digital Humanities"
MacPherson, “Why is Digital Humanities So White?” in
Debates
Nieves, "Race
as “Disruptive Innovation” for Restorative Social Justice in DH"
“Marking Up Gender in
Orlando”
Risam,
"Beyond the Margins: Intersectionality in Digital Humanities"
Risam, “Navigating the Global Digital Humanities: Insights from
Black Feminism” in Debates
|
Quick projects: Mykayla Fontaine, Charlotte Colon
Keywords: Charlotte Colon, Dustan Hahnel
Secretary: Apryl Lewis |
Week 5 |
Th 9/27 |
DH position paper presentations |
Week 6 |
Th 10/4 |
Evaluating Digital
Scholarship
Anderson & MacPherson, "Engaging
Digital Scholarship"
Fitzpatrick, "Peer
Review, Judgment, and Reading"
Nowviskie, "Where
Credit is Due"
Risam, "Rethinking
Peer Review in the Age of Digital Humanities"
Rockwell, "On
the Evaluation of Digital Media As Scholarship"
D_H pp. 128-9
18thConnect, "Peer
Review"
AHA, "Guidelines
for the Professional Evaluation of Digital Humanities Projects by
Historians"
CDRH,
“Best Practices for Digital Humanties Projects”
MLA, "Guidelines
for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media"
|
Quick projects: Dakota Chisum, Dustan Hahnel
Keywords: Apryl Lewis, Bhawana Pillai
Secretary: Jesse Lawhead |
Week 7 |
Th 10/11 |
Metadata and its
uses: Dr. Alison Rukavina
Omeka
Collective Access
Exhibits at
University of Alberta Special Collections
“Metadata and
Text Markup”
Wilson & Alexander, “When Metadata Becomes Outreach:
Indexing, Describing, and Encoding
For DH
”
"Ontologies
and Metadata"
DCMI, "Metadata
Basics," "Dublin
Core Metadata Element Set," and "DCMI
Metadata Terms"
Art &
Architechture Thesaurus
Cataloguing Cultural Objects
|
Quick projects: Apryl Lewis, Steven Tucker
Keywords: Wes Jones, Jesse Lawhead
Secretary: Dakota Chisum |
Week 8 |
Th 10/18 |
TEI and digital
editions
TEI Guidlines
Focus especially on "A
Gentle Guide to XML," "The
TEI Header," and "Elements
Available in All TEI Documents"
Willet, “Electronic
Texts: Audiences and Purposes”
Cummings, "The Text Encoding Initiative and the Study of Literature"
Burnard,
What is the Text Encoding Initiative, introduction
& ch. 1
|
Quick projects: Wes Jones, Jesse Lawhead
Keywords: Dakota Chisum
Secretary: Charlotte Colon, Bhawana Pillai
|
Week
9 |
Th 10/25 |
Text mining/analysis
and distant reading
Voyant
TAPoR: Text Analysis Portal for
Research
Algee-Hewitt & McGurl, "Between
Canon and Corpus: Six Perspectives on 20th-Century Novels"
Burrows, "Textual
Analysis"
Buurma and Heffernan, "Search
and Replace: Josephine Miles and the Origins of Distant Reading"
Graham, Weingart, and Milligan, "Getting
Started with Topic Modeling and MALLET"
--just the section "What is Topic Modeling and For Whom
Is This Useful?"
Klein, "Distant
Reading After Moretti"
Sinclair & Rockwell,
“Now
Analyze That: Comparing the Discourse on Race”
Underwood, "Seven
Ways Humanists Are Using Computers to Understand Text"
|
Quick projects: Bill Dyer
Keywords: Bill Dyer
Secretary: Zak Forkner |
Week 10 |
Th 11/1 |
DH project evaluation presentations |
Week 11 |
Th 11/8 |
Databases
MySQL 8.0 Reference Manual
Morse, "Research
Databases and the Future of Digital Humanities Applications"
Ramsay, “Databases”
Palladio
and Posner, "Getting
Started with Palladio"
Quamen et al., Database
Concepts for Digital Humanists
|
Quick projects: Bhawana Pillai
Keywords: Ahmed Muhammad
Secretary:
Steven Tucker |
Week 12 |
Th 11/15 |
GIS and mapping: Dr. Mike Lemon
Story Map and Neatline websites
“Spatial Analysis”
“Locative Investigation and Thick Mapping” in
D_H,
pp. 45-7
Guldi, “What is the Spatial Turn?”
Mapping Emotions in Victorian London
Mapping a Writer's World:
A Geographic Chronology of Willa Cather's Life
Mapping
the Republic of Letters
Active Projects and Collaborations at the Spatial History
Project
|
Quick projects: Ahmed Muhammad
Keywords: Steven Tucker
Secretary: Lance Lomax |
Thanksgiving holiday; no class |
Week 13 |
Th 11/29 |
HTML, XML, CSS: Dr.
Michael Faris
HTML
& Structured Data
at UCLA Center for DH
HTML Intro
at w3schools.com
XML Intro and
How To
Use at w3schools.com
Goldberg,
XML Quickstart Guide, introduction & ch. 1
CSS Intro and
How To at w3schools.com
Kirschenbaum, "Hello
Worlds"
|
Quick projects:
Keywords:
Secretary: Bill Dyer |
Final time |
Sat 12/8
7:30 - 10:00 |
DH project proposal presentations |