ENG 605: Independent Study—Digital Humanities

Course Calendar

Key:

DfH: Drupal for Humanists

Debates: Debates in the Digital Humanities (http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/)

 Week 1:                   

DfH: Chapter 1-2

Debates: Introduction
—Klein, Lauren, and Matthew Gold. “Digital Humanities: The Expanded Field.”

Kirschenbaum, Matthew. “What is the Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments?”

Liu, Alan. “The Meaning of Digital Humanities.”

Week 2:                  

DfH: Chapter 3-4

Debates: Histories and Futures of the Digital Humanities
—Jones, Steven E. “The Emergence of the Digital Humanities (as the Network is Everting).”
—McGrail, Anne B. “The “Whole Game”: Digital Humanities at Community Colleges.”
—Posner, Miriam. “What’s Next: The Radical, Unrealized Potential of Digital Humanities.”
—Gallon, Kim. “Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities.”
—Barnett, Fiona, et al. “QueerOS: A User’s Manual.”
—Terras, Melissa, and Julianna Nyhan. “Father Busa’s Female Punch Card Operative.”
—Nowviskie, Bethany. “On the Origin of “Hack” and “Yack.””
—Bailey, Moya, et al. “Reflections on a Movement: #transformDH, Growing Up.”

Week 3:                  

DfH: Chapter 5-6

Debates: Digital Humanities and Its Methods
—Tenen, Dennis. “Blunt Instrumentalism: On Tools and Methods.”
—Losh, Elizabeth, et al. “Putting the Human Back into the Digital Humanities: Feminism, Generosity, and Mess.”
—Fyfe, Paul. “Mid-Sized Digital Pedagogy.”
—Hancher, Michael. “Re: Search and Close Reading.”
—Marino, Mark C. “Why We Must Read the Code: The Science Wars, Episode IV.”
—Clement, Tanya E. “Where is Methodology in Digital Humanities?”
—Nowviskie, Bethany. “Resistance in the Materials.”
—Gil, Alex. “Interview with Ernesto Oroza.”
—Selisker, Scott. “Digital Humanities Knowledge: Reflections on the Introductory Graduate Syllabus.”

Week 4:                  

DfH: Chapter 7-8

Debates: Digital Humanities and Its Practices
—Binder, Jeffrey M. “Alien Reading: Text Mining, Language Standardization, and the Humanities.”
—Stauffer, Andrew. “My Old Sweethearts: On Digitization and the Future of the Print Record.”
—Hoover, David L. “Argument, Evidence, and the Limits of Digital Literary Studies.”
—Earhart, Amy E., and Toniesha L. Taylor. “Pedagogies of Race: Digital Humanities in the Age of Ferguson.”
—Posner, Miriam. “Here and There: Creating DH Community.”
—Buurma, Rachel Sagner, and Anna Tione Levine. “The Sympathetic Research Imagination: Digital Humanities and the Liberal Arts.”
—Hsu, Wendy F. “Lessons on Public Humanities from the Civic Sphere.”

Week 5:                   

DfH: Chapter 9-10

Debates: Digital Humanities and the Disciplines
—Robertson, Stephen. “The Differences between Digital Humanities and Digital History.”
—Blevins, Cameron. “Digital History’s Perpetual Future Tense.”
—Battles, Matthew, and Michael Maizels. “Collections and/of Data: Art History and the Art Museum in the DH Mode.”
—Watrall, Ethan. “Archaeology, the Digital Humanities, and the “Big Tent.””
—Risam, Roopika. “Navigating the Global Digital Humanities: Insights from Black Feminism.”
—Senchyne, Jonathan. “Between Knowledge and Metaknowledge: Shifting Disciplinary Borders in Digital Humanities and Library and Information Studies.”
—Hardy, Molly O’Hagan. ““Black Printers” on White Cards: Information Architecture in the Date Structures of the Early American Book Trades.”
—Brennan, Sheila A. “Public, First.”

Week 6:                  

DfH: Chapter 11-12

Debates: Digital Humanities and Its Critics
—Greenspan, Brian. “Are Digital Humanists Utopian?”
—Linley, Margaret. “Ecological Entanglements of DH.”
—Fiormonte, Domenico. “Toward a Cultural Critique of Digital Humanities.”
—Cordell, Ryan. “How Not to Teach Digital Humanities.”
—Sayers, Jentrey. “Dropping the Digital.”
—Chun, Wendy, et al. “The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities.”
—Sample, Mark. “Difficult Thinking about the Digital Humanities.”
—Burke, Timothy. “The Humane Digital.”
—Underwood, Ted. “Hold on Looseley, or Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft on the Web.”

Week 7:                   

DfH: Chapter 13-14

Debates: Text Analysis at Scale
—Ramsay, Stephen. “Humane Computation.”
—Underwood, Ted. “Distant Reading and Recent Intellectual History.”
—Clement, Tanya E. “The Ground Truth of DH Text Mining.”
—Rhody, Lisa Marie. “Why I Dig: Feminist Approaches to Text Analysis.”
—Cottom, Tressie McMillan. “More Scale, More Questions: Observations from Sociology.”
—Schmidt, Benjamin M. “Do Digital Humanists Need to Understand Algorithms?”
—Swafford, Joanna. “Messy Data and Faulty Tools.”
—Liu, Alan. “N+1: A Plea for Cross-Domain Data in the Digital Humanities.”

Week 8:                  

DfH: Chapter 15-16

Ciccoricco, David. “The Materialities of Close Reading: 1942, 1959, 2009.”
Manovich, Lev. “Database as Symbolic Form.”
Folsom, Ed. “Database as Genre.”

Week 9:                  

DfH: Chapter 17-18

McGann, Jerome, and Lisa Samuels. “Deformance and Interpretation.”
Sample, Mark. “Notes Towards a Deformed Humanities.”
Klein, Lauren. “The Carework and Codework of the Digital Humanities.”

Week 10:                

DfH: Chapter 19-20