Course Schedule (subject to change)

Readings marked (PDF) can be found in our course group

Tuesday, August 31 - Introductions

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

Tuesday, September 7 -- no class

Tuesday, September 14 - 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 post:

• 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 21 - 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 Humanties
• 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

Tuesday, September 28 - 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"Platforms like Google Earth Have the Legacies of Colonialism Programmed into Them.” Real Life, March 27, 2017.

Sites to explore

• Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761

• Mapping Inequality

• Renewing Inequality

• The Decolonial Atlas

Tuesday, October 5 - Data and Visualization

Readings

• Guiliano, Jennifer, and Carolyn Heitman. 2019. "Difficult Heritage and the Complexities of Indigenous Data" Journal of Cultural Analytic 1 (1).

• Manovich, Lev. 2010. “What is Visualization?”.

• 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).

• Drucker, Johanna. 2011. "Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display" Digital Humanities Quarterly 5 (1).

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

Tuesday, 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"

• 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

Assignment: PRAXIS Mapping assignment due

Tuesday, October 19 - Design / Infrastructure

Readings

• Nowviskie, Bethany. 2019. “Capacity Through Care.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. University of Minnesota Press.

• Star, Susan Leigh. 1999. “The Ethnography of Infrastructure.” American Behavioral Scientist 43 (3): 377–91. (PDF)

• Posner, Miriam. 2018. “See No Evil.” Logic Magazine, no. 4 (April).

• Jackson, Steven J. 2014. “Rethinking Repair.” In Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society, edited by Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo J. Boczkowski, and Kirsten A. Foot, 221–40. The MIT Press.

• Gil, Alex. 2016. “Interview with Ernesto Oroza.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. University of Minnesota Press.

• Greenspan, Brian. 2019. “The Scandal of Digital Humanities.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. University of Minnesota Press.

Sites to explore

• All That is Solid Melts into Data

• Critical Infrastructure Studies

• The Maintainers

• Surfacing

Tuesday, October 26 - 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.

• Drucker, Johanna. 2014. "Pixel Dust: Illusions of Innovation in Scholarly Publishing" Los Angeles Review of Books, January 16, 2014.

• Gil, Alex. 2019. “Design for Diversity: The Case of Ed.” The Design for Diversity Learning Toolkit. June 20, 2019.

Sites to explore

• Ed

• DHdebates site

• sx salon/sx archipelagos

• Open-Access publications on the CUNY Academic Commons

• Manifold installations: CUNY ; Minnesota

• PubPub

• Scalar

Tuesday, November 2 - Text

Readings

• 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.

• 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)

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 Visualization assignment due

Tuesday, 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)

• Digital Memory Project Reviews (browse project in advance of class presentation)

• Frost Davis, Rebecca; Gold, Matthew K.; Harris, Kathleen; Sayers, Jentery, Eds. 2020. Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities. Modern Language Association. - explore 4-5 keywords

Sites to explore:

• online DH syllabi (browse the Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities, Humanities Commons, and the Open Syllabus Project )

• SXCD2018 - Session 3: Digital Caribbean Pedagogies

Assignment: PRAXIS text mining assignment due

Tuesday, November 16 - Grant Writing Workshop

• 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 23 - Open Topics: Impacts of DH Projects; Sound Studies; Quantitative Analysis of Images; DH and Current Events

• on Impact: Moore, Samuel; Neylon, Cameron; Eve, Martin Paul; O'Donnell, Daniel; Pattinson, Damian (2016): Excellence R Us: University Research and the Fetishisation of Excellence. figshare. Journal contribution. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3413821.v1

• Also on Impact: check out the HumetricsHSS website

• on Sound Studies: Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, Whitney Trettien, 2018. "Introduction." In Digital Sound Studies, Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, Whitney Trettien. In Digital Sound Studies. Duke University Press, 2018. (PDF)

• on Quantitative Analysis of Images: Taylor Arnold, Lauren Tilton, "Distant Viewing: Analyzing Large Visual Corpora." Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 34, Issue Supplement_1, December 2019, Pages i3–i16, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqz013

• on DH and current events: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, "Beyond Verification: Algorithmic Authenticity and Polarizing Trust." Items. Social Science Research Council. 18 May 2021. https://items.ssrc.org/beyond-disinformation/beyond-verification-algorithmic-authenticity-and-polarizing-trust/

Assignment: PROPOSALS FOR FINAL PROJECT DUE

Tuesday, November 30 - Student Presentations

Tuesday, December 7 - Student Presentations

12/16 - Final Projects due