Readings marked (PDF) can be found in the library of our course group. The course schedule is subject to change.
Wednesday, August 31, 2022 – Introductions
Introductions to each other, to the course syllabus, site, and group
Wednesday, September 7, 2022 – Approaching the Digital Humanities
Readings
- Gold, Matthew K. 2012. “The Digital Humanities Moment.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold. University of Minnesota Press.
- Klein, Lauren F., and Matthew K. Gold. 2016. “Digital Humanities: The Expanded Field” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. University of Minnesota Press.
- Gold, Matthew K., and Lauren F. Klein. 2019. “A DH That Matters” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. University of Minnesota Press.
- Jacqueline Wernimont and Elizabeth Losh. 2018. “Introduction” In Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities, edited by Jacqueline Wernimont and Elizabeth Losh. University of Minnesota Press.
- Josephs, Kelly Baker, and Roopika Risam. 2021. “The Digital Black Atlantic.” In The Digital Black Atlantic, edited by Kelly Baker Josephs and Roopika Risam. University of Minnesota Press.
Sites to explore
- Torn Apart / Separados
- The Early Caribbean Digital Archive
- Colored Conventions Project
- Browse Reviews in Digital Humanities
Assignment
Blog posts: To what extent do these sites/projects reflect issues discussed in our readings? Or, If you were to center an understanding about what DH is around one of these projects/sites, how would DH be defined (or redefined)?
Wednesday, September 14, 2022 – Epistemologies of DH
Readings
- Ramsay, Stephen, and Geoffrey Rockwell. 2012. “Developing Things: Notes toward an Epistemology of Building in the Digital Humanities” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold. University of Minnesota Press.
- Gallon, Kim. 2016. “Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. University of Minnesota Press.
- Josephs, Kelly Baker. 2018. “Teaching the Digital Caribbean: The Ethics of a Public Pedagogical Experiment” The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, no. 13 (June).
- D’Ignazio, Catherine, and Lauren Klein. 2020. “Why Data Science Needs Feminism” In Data Feminism. The MIT Press.
- Presner, Todd. 2015. “Critical Theory and the Mangle of Digital Humanities.” In Between Humanities and the Digital, edited by Patrik Svensson and David Theo Goldberg, 55–67. The MIT Press. (PDF)
Sites to explore
- Association for Computers and the Humanities
- Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
- Humanities Commons
- Digital Humanities Quarterly
- Debates in the Digital Humanities
- CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative
- NYCDH
- GO:DH
- CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide
- DH Slack
- ACH Guide: Toward Anti-Racist Technical Terminology
Assignment
DH Project Analysis Due (view assignment description on syllabus)
Wednesday, September 21 – Mapping
Readings
- Monmonier, Mark. 1996. How to Lie with Maps. 2nd ed. The University of Chicago Press. (PDF)
- Ildefonso, Olivia. 2019. “Finding the Right Tools for Mapping.” GC Digital Fellows (blog). June 3, 2019.
- Bonilla, Yarimar, and Max Hantel. 2016. “Visualizing Sovereignty.” Sx Archipelagos, no. 1 (May).
- Sen, Mayukh. 2017. “Dividing Lines. Mapping platforms like Google Earth have the legacies of colonialism programmed into them” Real Life, March 27, 2017.
Sites to explore
Assignment
PRAXIS Mapping assignment due (view assignment description on syllabus)
Wednesday, September 28 – Data and Visualization
Readings
- Guiliano, Jennifer, and Carolyn Heitman. 2019. “Difficult Heritage and the Complexities of Indigenous Data” Journal of Cultural Analytics 1 (1).
- Drucker, Johanna. 2011. “Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 5 (1).
- Cottom, Tressie McMillan. 2016. “More Scale, More Questions: Observations from Sociology.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. University of Minnesota Press.
- Johnson, Jessica Marie. 2016. “A Review of ‘Two Plantations” Sx Archipelagos, no. 1 (May).
- Manovich, Lev. 2010. “What is Visualization?”.
Sites to explore
- A Tale of Two Plantations
- The Shape of History
- Around DH in 80 days
- Data is beautiful: 10 of the best data visualization examples from history to today
Assignment:
PRAXIS Visualization assignment due (view assignment description on syllabus)
Wednesday, October 5 – no class
Wednesday, October 12 – History and the Archive
Readings
- Johnson, Jessica Marie. 2018. “Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads.” Social Text 36 (4): 57–79. (PDF)
- Maria Cotera. 2018. “Pan Dulce: Breaking Bread with the Past” (video)
- Christen, K., Anderson, J. Toward slow archives. Arch Sci 19, 87–116 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-019-09307-x (PDF)
- Freelon, Deen, Charlton D. McIlwain, and Meredith D. Clark. 2016. “Beyond the Hashtags: #Ferguson, #Blacklivesmatter, and the Online Struggle for Offline Justice.” Center for Media and Social Impact. February 29, 2016.
- Brier, Stephen, and Joshua Brown. 2011. “The September 11 Digital Archive: Saving the Histories of September 11, 2001.” Radical History Review 2011 (111): 101–9.
Sites to explore
- Chicana por mi Raza
- Mukurtu
- CUNY Digital History Archive
- Our Marathon
- Documenting the Now
- Omeka
- TK Knowledge Labels
- Dublin Core – Wikipedia Entry
- CUNY Distance Learning Archive
Wednesday, October 19 – Open Access Publishing/ Minimal Computing / Digital Scholarship
Readings
- Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. 2021. Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University. Johns Hopkins University Press. (PDF)
- Suber, Peter. 2012. “What Is Open Access?” In Open Access (1st ed.). MIT Press.
- Risam, Roopika and Gil, Alex. “Introduction: The Questions of Minimal Computing.” Digital Humanities Quarterly Vol 16.2 (2022).
- Michael, Krystyna, Jojo Karlin, and Matthew K. Gold, 2022. “Hybrid Scholarly Publishing Models in a Digital Age.” New Directions in Print Cultures Studies: Archives, Materiality, and Modern American Culture. Bloomsbury Press. (PDF)
Sites to explore
- Ed
- DHdebates site (uses Manifold)
- sx salon/sx archipelagos
- Open Educational Resources on the CUNY Academic Commons
- Manifold installations: CUNY ; Minnesota; Brown; Arte Público Press; Gallaudet Universty Press; others
- PubPub
- Scalar
Wednesday, October 26 – Social Media and Scholarship
Readings
- Deuze, Mark, Peter Plank, and Laura Speers. 2012. “A Life Lived in Media.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 6 (1).
- Parham, Marisa. 2019. “Sample | Signal | Strobe: Haunting, Social Media, and Black Digitality.” Marisa Parham. In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. University of Minnesota Press.
- Taylor, Toniesha L. 2021. “Signifying Shade as We #RaceTogether Drinking Our #NewStarbucksDrink “White Privilege Americana Extra Whip” In The Digital Black Atlantic, edited by Kelly Baker Josephs and Roopika Risam. University of Minnesota Press.
- Chatelain, Marcia. 2018. “Is Twitter Any Place for a [Black Academic] Lady?” In Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities, edited by Jacqueline Wernimont and Elizabeth Losh. University of Minnesota Press.
Sites to explore
- Digital Humanities: Analyzing Social Media
- #TRANSFORMDH
- Tweets from Runaway Slaves
- Emerging Civil War
- Black Digital Humanities Projects and Resources
- QRator
Wednesday, November 2 – Text
Readings
- Mandel, Laura. 2019. “Gender and Cultural Analytics: Finding or Making Stereotypes?” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. University of Minnesota Press.
- Witmore, Michael. 2012. “Text: A Massively Addressable Object” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold. University of Minnesota Press.
- So, Richard Jean and Edwin Roland. 2020. “Race and Distant Reading.” PMLA 135.1: 59–73. (PDF)
- Underwood, Ted. 2017. “A Genealogy of Distant Reading.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 11 (2).
- Klein, Lauren F. 2018. “Distant Reading after Moretti.” Panel Discussion: Varieties of Digital Humanities presented at the 2018 MLA Annual Convention.
Sites to explore
- The Data Sitters Club
- Amanda Henrichs, “Allusions in the Age of the Digital: four ways of looking at a corpus“
Assignment
PRAXIS text mining assignment due (view assignment description on syllabus)
Wednesday, November 9 – Pedagogy
Readings
- Cordell, Ryan. 2016. “How Not to Teach Digital Humanities” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. University of Minnesota Press.
- Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth. 2019. “Review of Puerto Rico Syllabus: Essential Tools for Critical Thinking about the Puerto Rican Debt Crisis” Sx Archipelagos, no. 3 (July).
- Risam, Roopika. 2019. “Postcolonial Digital Pedagogy.” In New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy, 89–114. Northwestern University Press. (PDF)
- Schacht, Paul, curator. “Annotation.” Frost Davis, Rebecca; Gold, Matthew K.; Harris, Kathleen; Sayers, Jentery, Eds. 2020. Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities. Modern Language Association. (also explore 4-5 other keywords)
- Brown, M and Croft, B. 2020. “Social Annotation and Inclusive Praxis for Open Pedagogy in the College Classroom.” Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020 (1): 8.
- Scott, Laurence. 2016. “Introduction.” The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World. W.W. Norton & Company. (PDF)
Sites to explore:
- Digital Memory Project Reviews
- Reading Groups on CUNY’s Manifold instance
- Hypothes.is for education
- online DH syllabi (browse the Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities, Humanities Commons, and the Open Syllabus Project)
- SXCD2018 – Session 3: Digital Caribbean Pedagogies (video)
Assignment
Connected Pedagogy Assignment Due (view assignment description on syllabus)
Wednesday, November 16 – Grant Writing Workshop
Readings
- Breenan, Sheila. 2016. “Public, First.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. University of Minnesota Press.
- Brennan, Sheila. 2020. “Planning your next DHAG: Idea, Audience, Innovation, Context.” National Endowment for the Humanities. 17 September 2020.
- Alpert-Abrams, Hannah. 2020. “Planning Your Next DHAG 2: Activities, People, & Costs for Doing the Work.” National Endowment for the Humanities. 17 September 2018.
- Serventi, Jennifer. 2019. “Planning 3: Managing and Sustaining the Project Assets.” National Endowment for the Humanities. 4 November 2019.
- Brennan, Sheila. 2018. “Do your Research! Preparing a Strong Environmental Scan.” National Endowment for the Humanities. 15 November 2018.
- Alpert-Abrams, Hannah. 2020. “Planning your DH Institute: What and Why.” National Endowment for the Humanities. 13 January 2020.
- Alpert-Abrams, Hannah. 2020. “Planning your DH Institute: Who and How.” National Endowment for the Humanities. 13 January 2020.
- Division of Preservation and Access Staff. “Tips on Applying for a Preservation & Access Award.” 2020. National Endowment for the Humanities. 14 April 2020.
- Digital Humanities Research Institute Project Lab
- Model student proposals (PDF)
Assignment
Final project proposals due
Wednesday, November 23 — Open Topics
Readings TBA
Wednesday, November 30 – Student Presentations
Wednesday, December 7 – Student Presentations
12/16 – Final Projects due
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