Complete all assigned readings 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. 6 M

• Introductions. Syllabus.

Jan. 8 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. 13 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. 15 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. 20 M

• MLK holiday. No class.

Jan. 22 W

• DH Project presentations
• Scott McCloud. Understanding Comics, chapter 1.

–Week 4–

Considering and Computing Comics

Jan. 27 M

• DH Project papers due
• Charles Schulz. The Complete Peanuts, 1950-1952, beginning – end of December 1950 (pp 1-26).
• McCloud, Understanding Comics, chapter 2.

Jan. 29 W

• Kerry Soper, guest lecture
• Schulz, 1950-1952, January 1951 – end of April 1951 (pp 27-61).
• McCloud, Understanding Comics, chapter 3.

–Week 5–

Feb. 3 M

• Catching up on McCloud (all chapters thus far) and Schulz

Feb. 5 W

• Schulz, 1950-1952, May – end of October 1951 (pp 61-113).
• McCloud, Understanding Comics, chapter 4.
• Ian Milligan and James Baker. “Introduction to the Bash Command Line.” Programming Historian. 20 September 2014.

–Week 6–

Feb. 10 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. 12 W

• Schulz, 1950-1952, November 1951 – end of March 1952 (pp 114-170).
• 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. 17 M

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

Feb. 18 T

• Monday schedule.
• Elli Mylonas, guest lecture
• John A. Walsh. “Comic Book Markup Language: An Introduction and Rationale.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 6.1 (2012).

Feb. 19 W

• Download and install Oxygen XML on your laptop
• Schulz, 1950-1952, April – end of June 1952 (pp 170-209)

–Week 8–

Feb. 24 M

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

Feb. 26 W

• Annotated bibliography group phase due
• Schulz, 1950-1952, July – end of September 1952 (pp 209-248)
• Continue marking up your strips

–Week 9–

Mar. 2 M

• Schulz, 1950-1952, October – end of December 1952 (pp 248-287)
• McCloud, Understanding Comics, chapter 5
• Discussion of encoding questions

Mar. 4 W

• Charles Schulz, The Complete Peanuts: 1971-1972, January – end of April 1971 (pp 1-52)
• Discussion of encoding

–Week 10–

Mar. 9 M

• Schulz, 1971-1972, May – end of of September 1971 (pp 52-118)
• Discussion of encoding

Mar. 11 W

• Schulz, 1971-1972, October 1971 – end of February 1972 (pp 118-183)

–Week 11–

Mar. 16 M

• Class canceled

Mar. 18 W

• Schulz, 1971-1972, March 1972 – end of June 1972 (pp 183-235)

–Week 12–

Distant Reading Peanuts

Mar. 23 M

• Schulz, 1971-1972, July – end of August 1972 (pp 235-262)
• 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.

Mar. 25 W

• Annotated bibliography individual phase due
• Schulz, 1971-1972, September – end of October 1972 (pp 262-288)
• 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).
• Robert K. Nelson. “Of Monsters, Men — And Topic Modeling.” The New York Times. 29 May 2011.

–Week 13–

Mar. 30 M

• TEI/CBML encoding due
• Schulz, 1971-1972, November – December 1972 (pp 288 – 314)
• Topic modeling

Apr. 1 W

• Annotated bibliography individual phase due
• Topic modeling
• Encoding reflection paper due
• Franco Moretti. “Network Theory, Plot Analysis.” New Left Review 68 (2011).

–Week 14–

Apr. 6 M

• TEI/CBML encoding due
• Topic modeling

Apr. 8 W

• Encoding reflection paper due
• Schulz, 1971-1972, November – December 1972 (pp 288 – 314)
• Franco Moretti. “Network Theory, Plot Analysis.” New Left Review 68 (2011).
• Network analysis.

–Week 15–

Apr. 13 M

• TEI/CBML encoding due
• Network analysis

Apr. 15 W

• Encoding reflection paper due
• Franco Moretti. “Network Theory, Plot Analysis.” New Left Review 68 (2011).
• Network analysis

–Week 16–

Apr. 21 T

• Final exam, 2:30-5:30 pm