Preliminary Class Business

• Enrollment / Sign-up sheet / auditors (project and short assignments)
• Books, reader, course log in
• Course site: http://english236w2010.pbworks.com/

1. Course Rationale

Disciplinary Rationale: Toward a Next-Generation Digital Humanities

• Generations of  Humanities Computing/Digital Humanities (some data points):

   

  1. Roberto Busa, S.J. (and associates), Index Thomisticus (begun in 1946; web edition in 2005 by Eduardo Bernot and Enrique Alarcón)

      

     Jerome J. McGann, "Literary Scholarship in the Digital Future," The Chronicle Review [Chronicle of Higher Education], 49.16 (13 Dec. 2002): B7

      

     [Cf. philological and textual-editing traditions descended from the 19th century--e.g., the OED]

      

  2. JISC, NEH, NSF, SSHRC 2009 "Digging into Data" Challenge Grant Competition

      

     NEH "Humanities High-Performance Computing" Grant Program

      

     Swansea University "The Computational Turn" Conference, 2010

      

     UCSD Software Studies Program's "Cultural Analytics" Initiative (Jeremy Douglass, Cultural Analytics demo)

      

      

     [Cf. Cathy Davidson on "Big Humanities"]

      

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• http://www.thecomputationalturn.com/