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. 7 M

• Introductions, Syllabus

Jan. 9 W

• John Unsworth. “Scholarly Primitives: what methods do humanities researchers have in common, and how might our tools reflect this?” 13 May 2000.
• Tom Scheinfeldt. “Where’s the Beef? Does Digital Humanities Have to Answer Questions?” Debates in the Digital Humanities. 2012.
• David Parry. “The Digital Humanities or a Digital Humanism.” Debates in the Digital Humanities. 2012.
  • Read only the final 8 paragraphs, starting with “I have become convinced over the last few years that Benjamin’s…”

–Week 2–

Jan. 14 M

• 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.

Jan. 16 W

• 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.)

–Week 3–

Jan. 21 M

• MLK holiday. No class.

Jan. 23 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. 28 M

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

Jan. 30 W

• Duffy, Standing Female Nude, 32-end

–Week 5–

Feb. 4 M

• Carol Ann Duffy, Selling Manhattan, 1-35

Feb. 6 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. 11 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. 13 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. 18 M

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

Feb. 19 T

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

Feb. 20 W

• TEI workshop
• Before class, mark-up one poem and make notes of questions you have, pain points, and record how long it takes

–Week 8–

Feb. 25 M

• Annotated Bibliography group phase due 
• Carol Ann Duffy, The World’s Wife, 1-41

Feb. 27 W

• Duffy, The World’s Wife, 42-76

–Week 9–

Mar. 4 M

• Carol Ann Duffy, The Other Country, from beginning to
  “Somewhere Someone’s Eyes”

Mar. 6 W

• Duffy, The Other Country, 28-55

–Week 10–

Mar. 11 M

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

Mar. 13 W

• Duffy, Mean Time, 22-48

–Week 11–

Distant Reading Duffy

Mar. 18 M

• TEI markup due
• Megan R. Brett. “Topic Modeling: A Basic Introduction.” Journal of Digital Humanities 2.1 (2012).
• Matthew L. Jockers. “The LDA Buffet is Now Open; or, Latent Dirichlet Allocation for English Majors.” 29 September 2011.
• Andrew Goldstone and Ted Underwood. “What can topic models of PMLA teach us about the history of literary scholarship?” Journal of Digital Humanities 2.1 (2012).
  • Only read from the beginning until the end of the “What is a topic?” section, which is near the beginning of the essay.

Mar. 20 W

• TEI reflection paper due
• Robert K. Nelson. “Of Monsters, Men — And Topic Modeling.” The New York Times. 29 May 2011.
• Andrew Goldstone and Ted Underwood. “What can topic models of PMLA teach us about the history of literary scholarship?” Journal of Digital Humanities 2.1 (2012).
  • Read the rest of the article.

–Week 12–

Mar. 25 M

• Annotated Bibliography individual phase due
• 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.

Mar. 27 W

• Topic modeling.

–Week 13–

Apr. 1 M

• Topic modeling.

Apr. 3 W

• 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.
• David Robinson. “Text analysis of Trump’s tweets confirms he writes only the (angrier) Android half.” Variance Explained. 9 August 2016.

–Week 14–

Apr. 8 M

• Stylometry

Apr. 10 W

• Stylometry
• Linh Ngo. “Principal component analysis explained simply.” BioTuring’s Blog. 14 June 2018.
• Josh Starmer. “Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Step-by-Step.” StatQuest (YouTube). 2 April 2018.
• Michael Drout and Leah Smith. “How to Read a Dendrogram.” Lexomics. August 2012.

–Week 15–

Apr. 15 M

• Final project

Apr. 17 W

• Final project

–Week 16–

Apr. 24 T

• Final exam, 2:30-5:30 pm
• BYU College of Humanities. “Guidelines for Selecting and Teaching Literary and Visual Materials at BYU.” 4 March 2002.