Course Schedule (subject to change)

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

8/28 - Introductions

Course syllabus and site

9/4 - Approaching the Digital Humanities, Thinking the Caribbean

Readings

• Gold, Matthew K. "The Digital Humanities Moment." Debates in the Digital Humanities: 2012, edited by Matthew K. Gold, University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

• Gold, Matthew K., and Lauren F. Klein. "Digital Humanities: The Expanded Field." Debates in the Digital Humanities: 2016, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

• Gold, Matthew K., and Lauren F. Klein. "A DH That Matters." Debates in the Digital Humanities: 2019, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, University of Minnesota Press, 2019.

• Scott, David. "On the Question of Caribbean Studies.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, vol. 17, no. 2, 1 July 2013.

• Baker, Kelly Josephs, and Roopika Risam. "Digital Black Atlantic Introduction." (draft) (PDF)

Sites to explore

• Torn Apart / Separados

• Caribbean Digital

• Create Caribbean Projects

• The Early Caribbean Digital Archive

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)?

9/11 - Epistemologies of DH

Readings

• Gallon, Kim. "Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities." Debates in the Digital Humanities: 2016, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

• Josephs, Kelly Baker. "Teaching the Digital Caribbean: The Ethics of a Public Pedagogical Experiment." Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy, edited by Laura Wildemann Kane and Michelle A. McSweeney, Issue (13), 11 June 2018.

• Risam, Roopika. "What Passes for Human? Undermining the Universal Subject in Digital Humanities Praxis." Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities, edited by Jacqueline Wernimont and Elizabeth Losh, University of Minnesota Press, 2019.

• O'Donnell, Daniel Paul, et al. "Only Connect: The Globalization of the Digital Humanities". A New Companion to Digital Humanities, edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth, John Wiley & Sons, 2015. (PDF)

• Harrell, D. Fox. "Cultural Roots for Computing." The Fibrecultural Journal, edited by Andrew Hutchison and Ingrid Richardson, Issue (11), 2018.

• Ramsay, Stephen, and Geoffrey Rockwell. "Developing Things: Notes toward an Epistemology of Building in the Digital Humanities." Debates in the Digital Humanities: 2012, edited by Matthew K. Gold, University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

9/18 - Mapping

Readings

• Monmonier, Mark. How to Lie with Maps. The University of Chicago Press, 3rd ed., 10 April 2018, pp. 1-25. (PDF)

• Ildefonso, Olivia. "Finding the Right Tools for Mapping." CUNY Academic Commons, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 3 June 2019.

• Bonilla, Yarimar, and Max Hantel. "Visualizing Sovereignty: Cartographic Queries for the Digital Age." sx archipelagos, Issue (1), June 2016.

• Sen, Mayukh. "Dividing Lines. Mapping platforms like Google Earth have the legacies of colonialism programmed into them." Real Life Magazine, 27 March 2017.

Explore the following mapping projects:

• Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761

• Mapping Inequality

• Renewing Inequality

• The Decolonial Atlas

9/25 - Data and Visualization

Readings

• Guiliano, Jennifer, and Carolyn Heitman. "Difficult Heritage and the Complexities of Indigenous Data." Journal of Cultural Analytics, edited by Andrew Piper, 13 August 2019.

• Cottom, Tressie McMillan. "More Scale, More Questions: Observations from Sociology." Debates in the Digital Humanities: 2016, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

• Johnson, Jessica Marie. "A Review of ‘Two Plantations'." sx archipelagos, Issue (1), June 2016.

• Drucker, Johanna. "Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display." Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 1, edited by Wendell Piez, 2011.

• Manovich, Lev. "What is Visualization?" Cultural Analytics Lab, http://manovich.net, October 2010.

Sites to Explore

• A Tale of Two Plantations

• Around DH in 80 days

• Data is beautiful: 10 of the best data visualization examples from history to today

10/2 - History and the Archive (Guest visit from Ada Ferrer)

Readings

• Rodriguez, Linda M., and Ada Ferrer, "Collaborating with Aponte: Digital Humanities, Art, and the Archive." sx archipelagos, Issue (3), April 2019.

• Daut, Marlene L. "Haiti @ the Digital Crossroads: Archiving Black Sovereignty." sx archipelagos, Issue (3), April 2019.

• Johnson, Jessica Marie. "Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads." Social Text, Duke University Press, vol. 36, no. 4, edited by Jayna Brown and David Sartorius, 1 December 2018. (PDF)

Site to Explore

• Digital Aponte

Assignment: PRAXIS Mapping assignment due

10/9 - No classes

10/16 - No classes

10/23 - Design / infrastructure

Readings

• Continued discussion of Rodriguez/Ferrer and Daut articles from previous class

• Sutton, Angela. "The Digital Overhaul of the Archive of Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies (ESSSS)." sx archipelagos, Issue (2), September 2017.

• Nowiskie, Bethany. "Capacity Through Care." Debates in the Digital Humanities: 2019, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, University of Minnesota Press, 2019.

• Star, Susan Leigh. “The Ethnography of Infrastructure." American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 43.4, 1 November 1999. (PDF)

• Posner, Miriam. "See No Evil?" Logic Magazine, Scale: Issue (4), 1 April 2018.

• Jackson, Stephen. "Rethinking Repair." Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society, edited by Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo J. Boczkowski, and Kirsten A. Foot, MIT Press Scholarship Online, September 2014.

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

10/30 - Access / Minimal Computing

Readings

• Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. "Generous Thinking: Sustainability, Solidarity, and the Common Good." CNI: Coalition for Networked Information Spring 2019 Membership Meeting. April 18-19, 2019.

• Venegas, Cristina. "Tourism and the Social Ramifications of Media Technologies." Digital Dilemmas: The State, the Individual, and Digital Media in Cuba, Rutgers University Press, 2010, pp. 98-130.

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

• Gil, Alex. "Design for Diversity: The Case of Ed." The Design for Diversity Learning Toolkit, Northeastern University Library, 20 June 2019.

Sites to Explore

• DHdebates site

• sx salon/sx archipelagos

• Open-Access publications on the CUNY Academic Commons

• Manifold

11/6 - Text

Readings

• Underwood, Ted. "A Genealogy of Distant Reading." Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 2, 2017.

• Klein, Lauren F. “Distant Reading after Moretti.” Lklein, 2018.

• Ramsay, Stephen. “The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around; or What You Do with a Million Books.” Pastplay: Teaching and Learning History with Technology, edited by Kevin Kee, University of Michigan Press, 2014, pp. 111–20.

• Witmore, Michael. "Text: A Massively Addressable Object." Debates in the Digital Humanities: 2012, edited by Matthew K. Gold. University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

• So, Richard Jean. "All Models are Wrong." PMLA, vol. 132, no. 3, May 2017, pp. 668-673. (PDF)

Assignment: PRAXIS Visualization assignment due

11/13 - Pedagogy

Readings

• Cordell, Ryan. "How Not to Teach Digital Humanities." Debates in the Digital Humanities: 2016, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

• Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth. "Review of Puerto Rico Syllabus: Essential Tools for Critical Thinking about the Puerto Rican Debt Crisis." sx archipelagos, Issue (3), April 2019.

• Risam, Roopika. "Postcolonial Digital Pedagogy." New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy, Northwestern University Press, 2019, pp. 89-114. (PDF)

• Effinger-Crichlow, Marta. "A Pedagogical Search for Home and Care." Debates in the Digital Humanities: 2019, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, University of Minnesota Press, 2019.

Multimedia to explore:

• SXCD2018 - Session 3: Digital Caribbean Pedagogies

• Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities

• online DH syllabi (browse the Humanities Commons and the Open Syllabus Project )

11/20 - Ruha Benjamin, Race after Technology

Readings

Read Race after Technology in full

Assignment: PRAXIS text mining assignment due

11/27 - Prospectus Preparation

Assignment: FINAL Prospectuses DUE

12/4 - Student Presentations (Bret Maney visit)

12/11 - Open Topics: Sound Studies, Image Analysis, Accessibility, DH + Environmental Studies:

• Lingold, Mary Caton; Darren Mueller; Whitney Anne Trettien, "Introduction." Digital sound studies. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019: pp. 1-25.

• Arnold, Taylor and Lauren Tilton. "Distant Viewing." Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. March 2019.

• Williams, George. Disability, Universal Design, and the Digital Humanities. Debates in the Digital Humanities, ed. Matthew K. Gold. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

• Linley, Margaret. "Ecological Entanglements of DH." Debates in the Digital Humanities: 2016, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

12/18 - Final Projects due