Today, Brett Bobley (CIO of the NEH & director of Office of Digital Humanities), tweeted a link to the 1976 documentary, “Hypertext: An Educational Experiment in English and Computer Science at Brown University.”
So @BoingBoing picked up the story of the “lost” NEH 1976 film on hypertext & humanities — now it has 12,600 views! https://t.co/UpkASCK1B8
— Brett Bobley (@brettbobley) May 9, 2016
Thank you to Susan Behrens, Kathleen LeBesco, Jennifer Brown, and the Center for Teaching Innovation & Excellence at Marymount Manhattan College for hosting me on April 20 at well-attended luncheon to talk about digital pedagogy. During the talk, I demonstrated a variety of digital pedagogy assignments, discussed the Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities project, and pointed towards many online resources. Below are the slides with links to all references. What a great afternoon event!
This morning, a colleague emailed some great news: He’s contemplating including a project that would allow students to work on printed early modern poems. I’m a big fan of encouraging students to touch material artifacts and learning how to read literature in an unmediated (i.e., anthologized and edited) version of literature and literary culture. While he’s still in the planning stages, he has some room to figure out just what he’d like to accomplish by including this type of project. What follows is my advice, links, and assignments for creating such a project. Though many of the project instructions below are semester-long, they can be scaled down to accommodate any length of time. Read more…
This.is.awesome. The @CLIRDLF has created a community calendar for digitally-inflected conferences. This came across my Twitter feed from Amanda French and Bethany Nowviskie just as I was providing an SJSU iSchool grad student with some information about Digital Humanities community and infrastructure both at the local level at SJSU, in the Bay Area, and at a national and international level. I’m adding it here on my blog as double duty to broadcast this wonderful resource and to remind myself to check it often.
The exchange with this graduate student also reminded me that Digital Humanities is still so geographically-dispersed that it might be difficult for those who are exploring DH for the first time. FWIW, the Digital Humanities community from my point of view:
Update 2/9/16: This content was selected for Digital Humanities Now by Editor-in-Chief Ben Schneider based on nominations by Editors-at-Large Harika Kottakota, Heriberto Sierra, Marisha Caswell, Vanessa Raymond, and Laura Vianello
See also Miriam Posner’s talk from this day: “Money and Time.”
See also Scott Kleinman’s talk from this day: “Digital Humanities Projects with Small and Unusual Data: Some Experiences from the Trenches.”
Thank you to Peter Krapp and The Humanities Commons and Data Science Initiative for the invitation to speak today along with all of my esteemed colleagues. Everyone here represents a slightly different facet of Digital Humanities. It should make for a very interesting day!
Instead of discussing results today, I’m here to talk about the messiness of the inner-workings behind a small Digital Humanities project and issues inherent to data. I guess I’m also a tale of how to do Digital Humanities with the least possible institutional support in a field that continues to diversify and evolve intellectually and institutionally.
[About 20 minutes before the day began, Peter recommended that I outline the boundaries of Digital Humanities for this audience. The slides below offer that overview, but we can also add Alan Liu’s Map of Digital Humanities (Prezi or downloadable PPT — PPT is more recent). I didn’t quite get to the last 2 pp of this talk with this new addition of DH context. During the Q&A, more came out about how much is yet to be done with my DH project and the intersection with pedagogy. Ultimately, my DH project focuses on new developments in DH as the tools become easier to handle.]
What began as a digital scholarly edition, Forget Me Not Hypertextual Archive (2005), focusing on recovering and revealing an early nineteenth-century publication, turned into a traditional scholarly monograph, Forget Me Not: The Rise of the British Literary Annual 1823-1835 (2015). Both the monograph and digital scholarly archive reveal the multi-vocal and hyper-feminized literary annual’s interaction with print culture and the production of literary materials and material objects throughout the nineteenth-century. The literary annual, some 300 titles published 1823-1860 in England with nationalistic derivations produced in France, Germany, America, and South America, became the locus of authorship to almost every canonical and non-canonical author, poet, and artist in England and America. The best-selling titles were published for 25 years and enjoyed a healthy readership distributed across class, gender, and geographical audiences. However, the annuals themselves have previously been unavailable for study because most libraries and archives discarded them as unimportant, popular culture during an age when the mechanization of print encouraged distribution of massive amounts of reading materials. The digital archive, edition of gothic short stories, and monograph are all meant to the absence of scholarship on this wildly popular literary publication. First, a little background on this literary form before delving into the DH aspect. Read more…
Williams Elementary, which opened in 1976, sits in South Austin on the same full block of land that I saw on my first day of school in 1976.
The same huge tree in the corner of the field is still there.
Even the portables where Mr. Aielli taught us to be curious about science are still standing.
Because Williams hired new, young teachers who brought energy and joy to learning, Williams will always be my favorite school experience. From second through sixth grade, teachers nurtured me, encouraged me to enter the spelling bee (which I won in 5th grade!), offered track and field to boys and girls, held class outside under that big tree. They made me love learning – they told me I was smart, especially Mr. Aielli, one cool dude with the typical 1970s long hair and a real passion for talking directly to each of his students. Mr. Aielli saw a storm on the horizon and hustled all of us outside to stand in a long line so we could feel the moment that the barometric pressure dropped. Feeling, actually feeling, nature’s impact was exhilarating!
A return to Austin meant a return to home – the same is true of returning to the annual MLA Convention where so much learning, community, and networking happens.
Myself, Jentery Sayers, Rebecca Frost Davis, and Matthew Gold got together with Nicky Agate of the Modern Language Association to talk about the history, development, and innovation of Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities. This labor of love project, five years in the making, is under contract with the MLA and being delivered for open peer review in batches with final publication by 2017. Read more…
