Complete all assigned reading before coming to class. Please keep in mind that all reading assignments are subject to change. This website is the canonical version of the schedule.

All page numbers refer to the editions/ISBNs that I have ordered. Some readings are in the Course Reserves system, indicated by CR.

–Week 1–

What Are the Digital Humanists Doing?

Jan. 8 M

• Introductions, Syllabus

Jan. 10 W

• John Unsworth. “Scholarly Primitives: what methods do humanities researchers have in common, and how might our tools reflect this?” 13 May 2000.
• Stephen Ramsay. “The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around; or What You Do with a Million Books.” 17 April 2010. (CR)

–Week 2–

Jan. 15 M

• MLK Holiday. No class.

Jan. 17 W

• Miriam Posner. “How Did They Make That?” 29 August 2013.
• Miriam Posner. “How Did They Make That? The Video!” 17 April 2014.
• Luise Borek et al. “Activities” from “Taxonomy of Digital Research Activities in the Humanities (TaDiRAH).” 26 September 2017.

–Week 3–

Jan. 22 M

• Stephen Ramsay. “Humane Computation.” Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016.
• Ted Underwood. “Distant Reading and Recent Intellectual History.” Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016.
• “Text Analysis.” Tooling Up for Digital Humanities. c. 2011. (Make sure you read all seven pages; they are all short, but you’ll need to click through on the links.)

Jan. 24 W

• DH Project presentations
• Edward Hirsch. “How to Read a Poem.” 27 November 2007.
• Billy Collins. “Introduction to Poetry.” 1988.
• Robert Frost. “Mending Wall.”
• Emily Dickinson. “[After great pain, a formal feeling comes —].”

–Week 4–

Diving into Duffy

Jan. 29 M

• DH Project papers due
• Carol Ann Duffy, Standing Female Nude, 1-31

Jan. 31 W

• Duffy, Standing Female Nude, 32-end

–Week 5–

Feb. 5 M

• Carol Ann Duffy, Selling Manhattan, 1-35

Feb. 7 W

• Duffy, Selling Manhattan, 36-end
• Ian Milligan and James Baker. “Introduction to the Bash Command Line.” Programming Historian. 20 September 2014.

–Week 6–

Feb. 12 M

• Kevin S. Hawkins. “Introduction to XML for Text.” 11 Jan. 2015.
• Create an account at GitHub.com and download the GitHub desktop client.
• Daniel van Strien. “An Introduction to Version Control Using GitHub Desktop.” Programming Historian. 17 June 2016.

Feb. 14 W

• Guest: Elli Mylonas
• TEI by Example.
  • “Module 0: Introduction.” Sections 1, 2, and 3.1, and 8.
  • “Module 1: Common Structure and Elements.” Sections 1, 2, 3 (opening paragraph), 3.3 (opening paragraph), 3.3.1

–Week 7–

Feb. 19 M

• President’s Day. No class…but you’re still stuck with me twice this week.

Feb. 20 T

• Monday schedule.
• TEI by Example. “Module 4: Poetry.”

Feb. 21 W

• TEI workshop

–Week 8–

Feb. 26 M

• Carol Ann Duffy, The Other Country, from beginning to
  “Somewhere Someone’s Eyes”
• Mark-up one poem and make notes of questions you have, pain points, and record how long it takes

Feb. 28 W

• Duffy, The Other Country, 28-55

–Week 9–

Mar. 5 M

• Annotated Bibliography part 1 due 
• Carol Ann Duffy, Mean Time, 3-21 (from beginning to “Small Female Skull”)

Mar. 7 W

• Duffy, Mean Time, 22-48

–Week 10–

Mar. 12 M

• Carol Ann Duffy, The World’s Wife, 1-41

Mar. 14 W

• Duffy, The World’s Wife, 42-76

–Week 11–

Distant Reading Duffy

Mar. 19 M

• Kathryn Schulz. “What is Distant Reading?”  The New York Times. 24 June 2011.
• Jennifer Schuessler. “Reading by the Numbers: When Big Data Meets Literature.” The New York Times. 30 October 2017
• Matthew L. Jockers. “The LDA Buffet is Now Open; or, Latent Dirichlet Allocation for English Majors.” 29 September 2011.

Mar. 21 W

• Guest: Micki Kaufman
• Robert K. Nelson. “Of Monsters, Men — And Topic Modeling.” The New York Times. 29 May 2011.
• Ted Underwood. “Topic modeling made just simple enough.” 7 April 2012.

–Week 12–

Mar. 26 M

• Miriam Posner. “Very basic strategies for interpreting results from the Topic Modeling Tool.” 29 October 2012.
• Andrew Goldstone and Ted Underwood. “What can topic models of PMLA teach us about the history of literary scholarship?” Journal of Digital Humanities. 14 December 2012.

Mar. 28 W

• Guest: Lisa Marie Rhody
• Lisa Marie Rhody. “Why I Dig: Feminist Approaches to Text Analysis.” Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016.
• Lisa Marie Rhody. “Some Assembly Required: Understanding and Interpreting Topics in LDA Models of Figurative Language.” 22 August 2012.

–Week 13–

Apr. 2 M

• David I. Holmes and Judit Kardos. “Who was the Author? An Introduction to Stylometry.” Chance vol 16.2 (2003). (Read for background. Don’t sweat the details.)
• Patrick Juola. “How a Computer Program Helped Show J.K. Rowling write A Cuckoo’s Calling.” Scientific American. 20 August 2013.

Apr. 4 W

• Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich. “Agatha Christie And Nuns Tell A Tale Of Alzheimer’s.” NPR. 1 June 2010.
• Caitlin Dewey. “First J.K. Rowling, now Bitcoin’s founder: How a computer program analyzes language to solve author mysteries.” The Washington Post. 10 March 2014.
• David Robinson. “Text analysis of Trump’s tweets confirms he writes only the (angrier) Android half.” 9 August 2016.

–Week 14–

Apr. 9 M

• Annotated Bibliography part 2 due 
• Work day (AKA no reading!)

Apr. 11 W

• Topic Modeling blog post due at 1:20pm
• Class canceled

–Week 15–

Apr. 16 M

• Guest: Lauren F. Klein
• Lauren F. Klein.  “Distant Reading after Moretti.” January 2018.
• Tanya E. Clement. “The Ground Truth of DH Text Mining.” Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016.

Apr. 18 W

• Ted Underwood. “Digital Humanities as a Semi-Normal Thing.” 30 March 2017.

–Week 16–

Apr. 24 T

• Final exam, 2:30-5:30 pm
• Course Survey
• Google Doc for planning
• BYU Guidelines