Check out William Pannapacker’s latest Chronicle article about “hacking” and “yacking”, and how DH scholars will, increasingly, be ‘working in packs’ to chase down bigger topics:
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Are you considering employing Digital Humanities pedagogy in a winter 2014 or spring 2014 course? If you are undertaking an ambitious new augmenation of your teaching toolbox, one that will introduce you and your students to humanities/social science computing skill sets, tell us about it. Propose your winter or spring DH course-based project to DHAT@wlu.edu by Halloween, the 31 of October. Members of the Digital Humanities Working Group will select two winter term and two spring term DH course projects for $1000 stipends.
Competitve proposals will integrate computing tools such as visualization techniques (Mapplication), data mining, computational analysis, digitized annotated editions of texts, or crowd-sourced interpretations. Preference will be given to plausible projects that will reach all students in your course: tell us about how you think you’d evaluate their work. How will your DH project help students meet course, program, or FDR learning objectives?
The DHAT (Digital Humanities Action Team) members are ready to assist DH projects, large and small. Check out what W&L faculty have already done at Generally Digital: http://dhat.wludci.info/?page_id=38. If you have a course project you’d like to add to our blog, write to DHAT@wlu.edu .
All undergraduate courses and faculty are eligible.
Suzanne Keen, Dean of the College
Session Title: The Pedagogy of Digital Humanities
Session Description: Interested in integrating the tools and techniques of Digital Humanities into your courses? Curious about what Digital Humanities projects entail? Bethany Nowviskie, Director of Digital Research and Scholarship at University of Virginia’s library, will share her expertise with us at this lunchtime session. Bring your appetite and your questions. Event sponsored by the Associated Colleges of the South. See http://nowviskie.org/2013/resistance-in-the-materials/#more-1978 for more information on Bethany.
This report is a good start at a national conversation on the importance of non-STEM fields. Check it out here. Leave your thoughts below.
Two members of W&L’s Digital Humanities Working Group, Brandon Bucy and Alston Brake, will participate in the Five College Consortium’s Digital Humanities Panel to be held at Smith College, MA on June 18, 2013. They will discuss the evolution of Digital Humanities at W&L and campus initiatives to support faculty and staff in this work. The panel will focus on what it means to do Digital Humanities work in liberal arts colleges. Click here to see their presentation.
Two members of W&L’s Digital Humanities Working Group, Brandon Bucy and Alston Brake, will participate in the Five College Consortium’s Digital Humanities Panel to be held at Smith College, MA on June 18, 2013. They will discuss the evolution of Digital Humanities at W&L and campus initiatives to support faculty and staff in this work. The panel will focus on what it means to do Digital Humanities work in liberal arts colleges. Click here to see their presentation.
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Alan Liu in the most recent PMLA
Very thoughtful essay by Alan Liu on DH methodologies in the most recent issue of PMLA. Check the Sakai site if you are not an MLA member.
A story about classics professor Rebecca Benefiel and computer science professor Sara Sprenkle’s Ancient Graffiti Project: W&L Faculty to Present Collaborative Project at LAWDI Institute
A story about classics professor Rebecca Benefiel and computer science professor Sara Sprenkle’s Ancient Graffiti Project: W&L Faculty to Present Collaborative Project at LAWDI Institute
Professor Curtis Jirsa’s spring term students in ENGL 314, The History of the Book, compiled a detailed exhibit of 3 early printed texts housed in Leyburn’s Special Collections. The URL is: http://www.leyburnarchives.wordpress.com/. You can navigate the site via the menu at the top. Clicking on the name of each book in the menu will bring you to a preliminary page, and then clicking on the submenus will provide more historical and bibliographic information.