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Please use the course Reading Group on the Debates in DH Manifold instance. Readings marked (PDF) can be found in the library of our course group. The course schedule is subject to change.

Tuesday, August 29, 2023 – Introductions

IN PERSON

Introductions to each other, to the course syllabus, site, and group

Shared class notes

Tuesday, September 5, 2023 – Approaching the Digital Humanities

IN PERSON

Readings

Gold, Matthew K. 2012. “The Digital Humanities Moment.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold. 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.
Fiormonte, D., Ricaurte, P., & Chaudhari, S. 2022. “Introduction.” Global Debates in the Digital Humanities. University of Minnesota Press.

Sites to explore

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)?

Tuesday, September 12, 2023 – Epistemologies of DH

IN PERSON

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

Assignment

DH Project Analysis Due (view assignment description on syllabus)

Tuesday, September 19 – Mapping

IN PERSON

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)

Tuesday, September 26 – Data and Visualization

IN PERSON – Guest Speaker Ben Schmidt, VP at Nomic

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). (and Ben Schmidt’s response).
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 Guided Tour of the Digital Library (a tour of HathiTrust — related to the class discussion from 9/12)
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
Gendered Language in Teacher Reviews

Assignment:

PRAXIS Visualization assignment due (view assignment description on syllabus)

Tuesday, October 3 – History and the Archive

ZOOM https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98671331613

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.
Mari, Will. 2020. “When Wikipedia Fought Back.” The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, Teaching Fails (December). (optional)
Kwok, Cherrie. 2020. “Using Wikipedia in the Composition Classroom and Beyond: Encyclopedic “Neutrality,” Social Inequality, and Failure as Subversion” The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, no. 18 (December).
Rebekah Fitzsimmons and Susan Alteri. 2019. “Possibly Impossible; Or, Teaching Undergraduates to Confront Digital and Archival Research Methodologies, Social Media Networking, and Potential Failure” The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, no. 14 (January).

Sites to explore

Assignment

PRAXIS Wikipedia Assignment due

Tuesday, October 10 – no class (classes follow Monday schedule)

NO CLASS. ASSIGNMENT DUE.

Assignment

Project topic due (view assignment description on syllabus)

email professors with subject line: NAME, Project Topic: [Your Topic]

Tuesday, October 17 – Open Access Publishing/ Minimal Computing / Digital Scholarship

ZOOM https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98671331613

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

Tuesday, October 24 – Text

ZOOM https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98671331613

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)

Tuesday, October 31 – Social Media

ZOOM https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98671331613

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

Assignment

Final project abstract due (view assignment description on syllabus)

Tuesday, November 7 – Pedagogy

ZOOM https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98671331613 – Guest speaker: Amanda Licastro, Digital Scholarship Librarian at Swarthmore College

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.
Licastro, Amanda. 2022. “Breaking Boundaries With Social Annotation: An Interview With Amanda Licastro” interview

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)

Tuesday, November 14 – Grant Writing Workshop

ZOOM https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98671331613

Go as a class to CUNY DHI at 5:45PM at the GC/Zoom Sign Up: here.

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)

Tuesday, November 21 — Open Topics

ZOOM https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98671331613

Readings TBA

Tuesday, November 28 – Student Presentations

IN PERSON

Tuesday, December 5 – Student Presentations

IN PERSON

12/14 – Final Projects due

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