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
3090 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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