Calendar

Complete all assigned reading before coming to class. Please keep in mind that all reading assignments are subject to change. All page numbers refer to the editions/ISBNs that I have ordered.  For some readings, you will find the text in the Reserves Direct system, indicated by (RD).

Aug. 25 Th

• Introductions, Syllabus

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Definitions / Histories / Practices

Aug. 30 T

• Hockey, Susan. “The History of Humanities Computing.” In Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
• Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. “What is Digital Humanities and What’s it Doing in English Departments?” ADE Bulletin 150, 2010. (RD)
• Pannapacker, William. “‘Big Tent Digital Humanities,’ A View from the Edge, Part 1.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. 31 July 2011.

Sep. 1 Th

• Unsworth, John. “Scholarly Primitives.” Transcript of a presentation. 13 May 2000. http://www3.isrl.illinois.edu/~unsworth/Kings.5-00/primitives.html
• Flanders, Julia. “The Productive Unease of 21st-century Digital Scholarship” Digital Humanities Quarterly 3.3 (Summer 2009).
• “Bloomsberg U. Undergraduate ‘Manifesto’ on Digital Humanities.” 4Humanities.org. N.d.

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Mapping Digital Humanities

Sep. 6 T

• Lahiri, Jhumpa. “Sexy.” In Interpreter of Maladies. New York: Houghton, 1999. (RD)
• Forster, Chris. “I’m Chris. Where am I Wrong?” HASTAC.org. 8 Sept. 2010. http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cforster/im-chris-where-am-i-wrong (read the comment threads too)
• *Bring laptops with Google Earth installed*

Sep. 8 Th

• Moretti, Franco. “Maps.” In Graphs, Maps, Trees. 35-64.
• Ramsay, Stephen. “Who’s In and Who’s Out.” Stephen Ramsay. 8 Jan. 2011.

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Sep. 13 T

• Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, 3-64
• Ramsay, Stephen. “On Building” Stephen Ramsay. 11 Jan. 2011.

Sep. 15 Th

• Mrs. Dalloway, 64-128
• Reid, Alex. “The Digital Humanities Divide.”  digital digs. 17 Feb. 2011.
• Reid, Alex. “Digital Humanities: Two Venn Diagrams.” digital digs. 9 Mar. 2011.

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Sep. 20 T

• Mrs. Dalloway, 128-end

Reading on a Networked Device

Sep. 22 Th

• Hayles, Katherine N. “How We Read: Close, Hyper, Machine.” ADE Bulletin 150, 2010.  (RD)
• Bolter, Jay David, and Richard Grusin. Introduction and Chapter 1 from Remediation. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999. (RD)

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Sep. 27 T

• Borges, Jorge Luis. “Museum: On Exactitude in Science.” In Collected Fictions. Trans. Andrew Hurley. New York: Viking, 1999. (RD)
• Woolf presentations

Sep. 29 Th

• Joyce, Michael. afternoon (read for at least 90 minutes)
• Finish Mrs. Dalloway presentations.

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Oct. 4 T

• afternoon (read for at least 90 minutes)
• Carmody, Tim. “10 Reading Revolutions Before E-Books” The Atlantic. 25 Aug. 2010.

Oct. 6 Th

• afternoon (read for at least 30 90 minutes)
• Carmody, Tim. “10 Reading Revolutions Before E-Books.” The Atlantic. 25 Aug. 2010.
• Lafarge, Paul. “Why the Book’s Future Never Happened.” Salon. 4 Oct. 2011.
• Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. “Save as: Michael Joyce’s Afternoons.” In Mechanisms. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008. (RD)

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Oct. 11 T

• Fall break, classes canceled

Reading in a Network

Oct. 13 Th

• Sample, Mark. “The Digital Humanities is Not About Building, It’s About Sharing.” SampleReality.com. 25 May 2011.
• Danielewski, House of Leaves, front cover – 24 (Read all materials: prefatory, cover, appendixes, footnotes, exhibits as you come to them)

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Oct. 18 T

• House of Leaves, 24-79
• Mullen, Lincoln. “Digital Humanities Is a Spectrum; or, We’re All Digital Humanists Now.” LincolnMullen.com. 29 April 2010. http://lincolnmullen.com/essays/2010/04/29/digital-humanities-is-a-spectrum.html

Oct. 20 Th

• Class canceled (I’m going to NYC!)

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Oct. 25 T

• House of Leaves, 80-245
• Digital Humanities Project Evaluation Presentations

Oct. 27 Th

• House of Leaves, 246-346
• Barthes, Roland. “The Death of the Author.” In Image, Music, Text. (RD)

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Nov. 1 T

• House of Leaves, 347-422

Nov. 3 Th

• House of Leaves, 423-528

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Nov. 8 T

• House of Leaves, catch-up
• Barthes, Roland. “The Death of the Author.” In Image, Music, Text. (RD)
• Pressman, Jessica. “House of Leaves: Reading the Networked Novel.” Studies in American Fiction 34 (2006). (RD)

The Intentional Fallacy

Nov. 10 Th

• Duffy, The World’s Wife, 1-41

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Nov. 15 T

• Duffy, The World’s Wife, 42-end
• Moretti, Franco. “Graphs.” In Graphs, Maps, Trees. 3-30.

Nov. 17 Th

• Duffy, Mean Time, 1-29

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Nov. 22 T

• Duffy, Mean Time, 30-end

Nov. 24 Th

• Thanksgiving Break, classes canceled

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Nov. 29 T

• Rockwell, Geoffrey. “What is Text Analysis, Really?” (RD)
• Michel, Jean-Baptiste et al., “Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books.” Science. 16 Dec. 2010.
• PAPER DUE

Dec. 1 Th

• CLASS CANCELED (I’m going to Ann Arbor)
• PAPER DUE
• DUFFY BLOG POSTS DUE
• Duffy project

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Dec. 6 T

• Duffy project

Dec. 8 Th

• FINAL EXAM: Duffy Project, 4:30 – 7:00 pm

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