Schedule

Week 0 | Wednesday, August 30

Inaugural Lecture by Prof. Alex Gil

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Week 1 | Wednesday, September 6

Everything, Everywhere, All At Once: The (Digital) Cultural Record

Seminar

• Borges, Jorge Luis. “The Congress”; “El Aleph.”
• Burdick, Anne, et al. Digital_Humanities. MIT Press, 2012.
• Risam, Roopika. “Introduction: The Postcolonial Digital Cultural Record.” New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy. Northwestern University Press, 2018.
• Reviews in DH. Edited by Jennifer Guiliano and Roopika Risam. Vol. 3. 2022.

Studio

• Exercise: Building the Actual Global Library of All Things

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Week 2 | Wednesday, September 13

Letters: Surface and Depth, WYSIWYG… or not.

Seminar

• Best, Stephen, and Sharon Marcus. “Surface Reading: An Introduction.” Representations 108, no. 1 (November 2009): 1–21. doi:10.1525/rep.2009.108.1.1
• Hayles, N. Katherine. “Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis
• “Introduction.” Tenen, Dennis. Plain Text: The Poetics of Computation. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017.

Studio

• What is Plain Text?
• Tutorial: Microsoft Visual Studio Code (Please install before class)

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Week 3 | Wednesday, September 20

Documents: Files, Types and Cabinets

Seminar

Discussion Lead: Jacob Link

• Bush, Vannevar. “As We May Think.” The Atlantic, July 1945.
• Tagg, John. “The Archiving Machine; Or, The Camera and the Filing Cabinet.” Grey Room, no. 47 (April 1, 2012): 24–37.
• Vismann, Cornelia. “Preface” and “Law’s Writing Lesson” in Files: Law and Media Technology. Translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, Stanford University Press, 2008: 1–38.

☛ Skim: Kernighan, Brian W, and Rob Pike. “The File System” in The UNIX Programming Environment. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1984: 41–65.
☛ Examine: Your file system and storage

Studio

• Tutorial: Terminal basics
• Tutorial: Pandoc (Please install before class)

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Week 4 | Wednesday, September 27

Editions: The Point is to Change It

Seminar

Discussion Leads: Gavin Guerrette and Emma Hodgdon

• Sahle, Patrick. “What Is a Scholarly Digital Edition?” Digital Scholarly Editing : Theories and Practices, edited by Matthew James Driscoll and Elena Pierazzo, Open Book Publishers, 2017, pp. 19–39.
• McGann, Jerome. “Introduction.” Radiant Textuality: Literary Studies after the World Wide Web. 1st edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.

☛ Examine: The Shelley-Godwin Archive; The Rosetti Archive

Studio

• Tutorial: Ed
• Tutorial: Markdown

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Week 5 | Wednesday, October 4

Bibliographies: Search Results, Works Cited, Syllabi, Catalogues, Shout-outs and If You Liked This Maybe You will Like That

Seminar

Discussion Leads: Isaiah Cruz and Kennedy Anderson

• Ahmed, Sara. “Introduction: Bringing Feminist Theory Home.” Living a Feminist Life. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. [Yale Library access]
• Coman, Jonah. “Trans Citation Practices — a Quick-and-Dirty Guideline.” Medium, 18 Mar. 2021.
• Godin, Benoît. “On the Origins of Bibliometrics.” Scientometrics, vol. 68, no. 1, July 2006, pp. 109–33. akjournals.com.
• Tanselle, G. Thomas. “Table of Contents.” Introduction to Bibliography. Book Arts Press, 2002.

☛ Examine: The Open Syllabus Project; Goldsby, Jacqueline, and Meredith L. McGill. “Black Bibliography Project.”

Studio

• Ed continued
• Zotero

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Week 6 | Wednesday, October 11

Data: Given and Taken, then We Use It as a Brush.

Seminar

Discussion Leads: Allie Lopez and Rory Detweiler-Bedell

• D’Ignazio, Catherine, and Lauren F. Klein. “Introduction.” Data Feminism. MIT Press, 2020.
• Drucker, Johanna. “Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display.” Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 005, no. 1, Mar. 2011.
• Sá Pereira, Moacir P. de. “Representation Matters.” Torn Apart/Separados. June 2018. xpmethod.columbia.edu.
• Hartman, Saidiya. “Venus in Two Acts.” Small Axe, vol. 12, no. 2, 2008, pp. 1–14.

☛ Examine: Torn Apart/Separados; (Un)Silencing Slavery

Studio

• CSVs
• YAML

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Week 7 | Wednesday, October 17

OCTOBER RECESS 🍂

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Week 8 | Wednesday, October 25

Libraries: Exhibits, Archives, Collections, Databases

Seminar

Discussion Leads: Emma Lazo, Dasom Kim and Karen Cortez

• Wilson-Lee, Edward. (Selections). The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library. EPub edition, William Collins, 2018.
• da Silva, Natália Marques, et al. ”Digitization as Revival: A Case Study of the Musée Ogier-Fombrun.” archipelagos journal, no. 6, Mar. 2020. archipelagosjournal.org.
• Berry, Dorothy. “Take Me into the Library and Show Me Myself: Toward Authentic Accessibility in Digital Libraries.” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 110, no. 3 (2022): 111–26.

☛ Examine: La Gazette Royale d’Haïti; Colored Conventions Project

Studio

• Tutorial: Wax I
• Project brainstorm

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Week 9 | Wednesday, November 1

Algorithmic Approaches to Corpora: A Soft Introduction

Discussion Leads: Shwetant Kumar and Fia Sheeran

Seminar

• Underwood, Ted. Distant Horizons: Digital Evidence and Literary Change. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2019.

☛ Examine: The Viral Texts Project;

Discussion Lead: Shwetant Kumar

Studio

• Tutorial: Wax II
• Project planning

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Week 10 | Wednesday, November 8

Our Themes

Discussion Lead: Ana Fernández Blázquez

Seminar

TBD

Studio

• CSS
• Social Media

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Week 11 | Wednesday, November 16

Craft: Collaboration, Divisions of Labor, Project Management

Project Work | Monday, November 14

• Setting up our team.

☛ Examine: The Praxis Network

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Week 12 | Wednesday, November 22

THANKSGIVING BREAK 🦃

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Week 13 | Wednesday, November 29

Machines: Minimal Computing, Computing a little

Seminar

• Risam, Roopika, and Alex Gil. “Introduction: The Questions of Minimal Computing.” Digital Humanities Quarterly. 16.2. 2022

☛ Examine: A replica of the Turing machine

Studio

• A very gentle introduction to algorithmic thinking and practice with Python

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Week 14 | Wednesday, December 6

Exeunt to the World: Workers of the record, unite!

Seminar

• Benjamin, Ruha. “Default Discrimination.” Race after Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. Polity, 2019.
• The Nimble Tents Toolkit
• pirate.care.syllabus▒▒▒🐙

☛ Examine: SUCHO

Studio

• Google maps

The Final Week

Curtains: Nerves, Celebration and Joy

[Location TBD]

On the final week we will simply celebrate each other’s works and camaraderie.