MLA13 Digital Roundtable: “How I Got Started in Digital Humanities: A...
Today I received notice that the panel below has been accepted for MLA 2013 in Boston. I can’t wait to host participants from last year’s “Getting Started in Digital Humanities” preconvention workshop,...
View ArticleIntroduction to DH @ SILCS
Introduction to the Digital Humanities Dr. Ryan Cordell, June 12, 2012 I. What is DH? (2:00pm-2:45pm) Before today’s session you all read the following articles: Matthew Kirschenbaum, “What is...
View ArticleMea Culpa: on Conference Tweeting, Politeness, and Community Building
Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s post “If You Can’t Say Anything Nice” post about public shaming on Twitter came at a timely moment for me. Describing the culture of Twitter commentary, she writes: You get...
View ArticleCreating a Historical Map with GIS
In the next few days I’ll be teaching a few workshops centered largely on teaching participants to georeference historical maps using ArcGIS. I’ll do this first at the Northeastern English Graduate...
View ArticlePresentation on Viral Texts
Last week I gave a talk about my current research, “Mapping Networks of Viral Texts in Nineteenth-Century America” for Southern Methodist University’s Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute. They...
View ArticleBoston DH Consortium Session #3 Breakout Group Notes
For breakout groups in the “Out-of-the-Box” DH Tools session at the Boston-Area DH Consortium Faculty Retreat (Fall 2013): Voyant visit http://voyant-tools.org and upload a text you want to analyse for...
View ArticleRepresenting the “Known Unknowns” in Humanities Visualizations
Note: If this topic interests, you should read Lauren Klein‘s recent article in American Literature, “The Image of Absence: Archival Silence, Data Visualization, and James Hemings,” which does far more...
View ArticleOmeka/Neatline Workshop Agenda and Links
We’ll be working with the NULab’s Omeka Test Site for this workshop. You should have received login instructions before the workshop. If not, let us know so we can add you. Workshop Agenda 9:00-9:15...
View ArticleMr. Penumbra, Distant Reading, and Cheating at Scholarship
My Technologies of Text course is capping this semester reading Robin Sloan’s novel, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, which Matt Kirschenbaum deemed “the first novel of the digital humanities” last...
View ArticleOn Ignoring Encoding
Lately we’ve seen a spate of articles castigating the digital humanities—perhaps most prominently, Adam Kirsch’s piece in New Republic, “Technology Is Taking Over English Departments: The False Promise...
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