Unit 4: The Digital Humanities

Today: History of Computing•Major Assignment #3 Due•Vannevar Bush, “As We May Think.”

10/31: No Class•Ignore the Video Assignment for This Day.

11/5: Digital Humanities and Literary Studies•Matt Kirschenbaum, “What’s DH and What’s It Doing in English Depts?”•Stephen Ramsay, “High Performance Computing for English Majors.”

11/7: Digital Humanities Applications•Lauren Klein, “‘A Report Has Come Here’: Social Network Analysis in Thomas Jefferson.” •Ted Underwood, “We Don’t Already Know the Broad Outlines of Literary History.”

11/12: Distant Reading or Macroanalysis•Franco Moretti, “Conjectures on World Literature.” •Matthew Jockers, “On Distant Reading and Macroanalysis.”

11/14: Voyant•My Voyant Tutorials and Play with Digital Applications!

The Early Years of Computation