1. Overview of course goals, policies, and schedule


2. Following online scholarship using RSS and Twitter


3. Writing collaboratively using Google Docs


4. Blogging using WordPress

We'll discuss:

1. Matthew Kirschenbaum, “What is Digital Humanities and What’s it Doing in English Departments?”


2. All six articles in the New York Times’ series, “Humanities 2.0”


3. Bloomsburg University students’ “Digital Humanities Manifesto"

Dr. Cordell will be out of town, but Career Services has asked to speak with the class on this day. A representative from Career Services will take attendance.

We'll discuss:

1. Matthew Kirschenbaum, “Technologies of Writing”


2. Plato, from Phaedrus


3. Alan Liu, “Imagining the New Media Encounter” (DLS)

We'll discuss

1. Michael Wesch, “The Machine is Us/ing Us” and “Information R/evolution” (we'll watch these in class)


2. Building a class bibliography using Zotero


3. Representative vs. descriptive markup

Guest Lecture: Dr. Thomas Bolin, SNC Religious Studies Discipline

Optional reading:

1. Peter Stallybrass, from “Books and Scrolls: Navigating the Bible”

Before class, watch:

1. Stephen Ramsay, “Writing as Programming as Writing”

A discussion with Dr. William Hyland about possible subjects for final projects.

We'll learn the basics of HTML and CSS with Miriam Posner, a postdoctoral fellow for Emory University's Digital Scholarship Commons.

We'll discuss:

1. I've posted two videos worth watching as we start talking about the age of print


2. Blake's printing process, described in Illuminated Printing


3. William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience . Read the 1789 edition from the British Library. You should also experiment with the archive—compare pages from different editions, etc. Focus particularly on the following poems:
   
   
   
   • both poems titled "Holy Thursday"
   
   
   • both poems titled "The Chimney Sweeper"
   
   
   • "The Lamb"
   
   
   • "The Tyger"
   
   
   • "London"
   
   
   
   

We'll discuss:

1. Jerome McGann, “The Rationale of Hypertext"

Guest Speaker: Wesley Raabe, Assistant Professor, Kent State University English Department

From Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin we'll discuss:

1. Chapter 12


2. Chapter 16


3. Chapter 19 (to get to the chapter, click "editions" and then click "Selection from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin"

Today we'll continue our discussion of Uncle Tom's Cabin. UTC wasn't just a print bestseller: it was the first bestseller in modern terms, with entire industries devoted to performing theatrical versions of the novel, creating products emblazoned with scenes from the novel, and so on. In preparation for today's class, browse through the Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture archive. Find one item or story from the novel's history in the American popular imagination that you find particularly interesting and be prepared to share it with the class.

Guest speaker: Kathryn Tomasek, Associate Professor of History, Wheaton College (MA)

We'll discuss:

1. Kenneth Price, “Electronic Scholarly Editions” (DLS)


2. Walt Whitman, from the Whitman Archive
   
   
   
   • "Poem of Walt Whitman, an American" (you don't have to read every word of this poem, but you should read closely from the beginning of the poem to "I go with the team also" on page 21 and from the beginning of page 96 to the end of the poem.
   
   
   • "BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS!"
   
   
   • "O Captain! My Captain!"
   
   
   • "America"
   
   
   
   

We'll discuss:

1. Henry David Thoreau, Walden (chapters 1-3)

We'll discuss:

1. National Endowment for the Arts, To Read or Not to Read Executive Summary


2. Leah Price, “You Are What You Read”


3. Nicolas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”


4. The Onion, “Nation Shudders at Large Block of Uninterrupted Text”

Guest speaker: George Williams, Assistant Professor of English, University of South Carolina Upstate

We'll begin experimenting with Omeka, a platform for building scholarly archives. Today we'll learn the difference between data and metadata and talk about how each contribute to humanistic inquiry.

We'll discuss:

1. Clay Shirky, “Does the Internet Make You Smarter?”


2. Clay Shirky, “It’s Not Information Overload, It’s Filter Failure”


3. Cathy N. Davidson, "Now You See It: The Futue of Learning in a Digital Age" (you needn't watch the long introduction to Davidson's talk in the video. Davidson herself begins speaking around minute 16.

We'll discuss:

1. Thoreau, Walden, to the end

In a recent blog post, Jon wrote about the Cramer edition of Walden we're reading in class. Jeffrey Cramer found that blog post and commented that he'd be happy to chat with our class about the book or his edition of it. I invited him to beam into class and do just that! You can learn more about Jeffrey Cramer's work on his personal website. We'll meet for class in the Mulva Library Presentation Room (101).

We'll discuss:

1. Meredith McGill, from American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting (Read pages 8-20)



2. Philip V. Allingham, “Nineteenth-Century British and American Copyright Law”



Watch:


• Eric Faden, “A Fair(y) Use Tale”

We'll be in the lab on this day, but the conversation will be more akin to a typical classroom day. Guest speaker Paul Fyfe, Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University (and @pfyfe on Twitter) will introduce us to textual analysis software and prepare us for this week's assignment.

We'll read:

1. Michael Whitmore," Text: A Massively Addressable Object" and "The Ancestral Text"


2. Daniel J. Cohen, “From Babel to Knowledge: Data Mining Large Digital Collections”

This lab is scheduled on a day that's normally a classroom day. Prof. Cordell will be out of town on this day, so this will be a virtual lab. Check the blog for the assignment details.

Note: the idea for this assignment was stolen from my colleague Paul Fyfe, of Florida State University. He describes the assignment in "How Not to Read a Victorian Novel," Journal of Victorian Culture 16, no. 1 (April 2011).

Many of you wrote about Adeline Koh's work (@adelinekoh on Twitter) in your social media reports, so I've invited her to speak with us about it in class. She'll talk about her "Digitizing 'Chinese Englishmen'" project and her work at Richard Stockton College.

We'll discuss:

1. Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees

If you had trouble with last week's assignment, come visit the lab today.

In Ft. Howard Theater

We'll discuss:

1. You might begin with the Wikipedia entry for The Education of Henry Adams, which will give you some context for the larger book in which the famous chapter below appears.


2. Henry Adams, "The Dynamo and the Virgin”



3. Kittler, "Gramophone, Film, Typewriter"

Today we'll here from:

1. Matt Evans, Trevor Powell, and Brian Anhalt; Interactive Nolli Map


2. Meg Domnick and Calli Nonnemacher, The Valley of the Shadow


3. Alisha Petrouske and Laura Alderson, Transcribe Bentham


4. Maria Dzurik and Jo Krogh, Preserving Virtual Worlds


5. Jaclyn Schreiner and Justin Nagode, The History Engine

Guest lecturer, David Shepherd, UCLA English

Today we'll hear from:

1. Todd Winkelbauer and Kelly Levenhagen, Civil War Washington


2. Zhaniya Sauranbayeva and Sergei Bilokhatniuk, The Mind is a Metaphor


3. Brandon Van Pay and Caesar Cai, September 11 Digital Archive


4. Jon DesChane and Jeff Lajeunesse, NINES


5. Aaron Day and Jerome Palliser, Map of Early Modern London


6. Erin Worzalla and Marissa Ryan, On the Origin of Species

We'll discuss:

1. T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, including Pound’s annotations

We'll discuss:

1. Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”



2. Marshall McLuhan, "The Medium is the Message"

We'll discuss:

1. Van Hulle, "Hypertext and Avant-texte in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature" (DLS)


2. also bring T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land

We'll discuss:

1. “E-literature Explained”


2. Richard Holeton, "Frequently Asked Questions about 'Hypertext'"


3. Ingrid Ankerson and Megan Sapnar, "Cruising"


4. Mary Flanagan, [theHouse]


5. also browse other works in the Electronic Literature Collection, volume 1

We'll discuss:

1. Carolyn Guertin, "Handholding, Remixing, and the Instant Replay: New Narratives in a Postnarrative World" (DLS)


2. browse the Electronic Literature Collection, volume 2 and find at least one work you would like to discuss with the class. Be prepared to talk in detail about why you find it interesting.