INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL HUMANITIES Digital Humanities Faculty Workshop

INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL HUMANITIES Digital Humanities Faculty Workshop Series Fall 2017 Dr. Stephen Grandchamp Visiting Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities September 13, 2017

Go to: www. pollev. com/stephengrand 176 Answer: What activities and topics do you associate with Digital Humanities?

If the publication of the first volume of Debates in the Digital Humanities in 2012 marked the “digital humanities moment, ” this volume—and the series that will bear its name—confirms that the digital humanities, as a field, has arrived. Along with the digital archives, quantitative analyses, and tool-building projects that once characterized the field, DH now encompasses a wide range of methods and practices: visualizations of large image sets, 3 D modeling of historical artifacts, “born digital” dissertations, hashtag activism and the analysis thereof, alternate reality games, mobile makerspaces, and more. In what has been called “big tent” DH, it can at times be difficult to determine with any specificity what, precisely, digital humanities work entails. -Lauren F. Klein and Matthew K. Gold, “Digital Humanities: The Expanded Field” (Debates in the Digital Humanities [2016])

Agenda • Definition of Digital Humanities • Goals for the 2016 -17 Academic Year • Workshop Schedule Overview • Faculty Outreach • Spring Workshop Suggestions • Five-Year Digital Humanities Plan • Questions/Discussion

Definition of DH • First Component: Pedagogy • Digital tools and methodologies that can be applied to teaching • Examples: data mining, data visualization, social media, streaming media, digital mapping, online publishing, digital film, multimodal projects, distant learning, video games, virtual reality • Second Component: Research • Digital tools and methodologies that can be applied to scholarship • Examples: data mining, data visualization, digital mapping, opensource publishing, distant reading, interdisciplinary approaches, digital curation, network analysis

In actuality, the perception of the digital humanities as what William Pannapacker recently called the 'next big thing' may be less a matter of empirical phenomena than what marketers call mind share. Separate approaches and fields have converged to give the humanities a new brand. The marketing metaphor is not extravagant when we consider that the rebranding effort is aimed first of all at the institution of higher education itself… -Alan Liu, “The State of the Digital Humanities”

The focus on the undergraduate curriculum at small liberal arts colleges offers the digital humanities a path for expansion beyond research centers at large universities to other types of institutions and beyond. While teaching is obviously important for most faculty members (allowing for variance by campus type), the discussion of pedagogy in the digital humanities has largely focused on teaching the field of digital humanities or preparing future digital humanists. By contrast, small liberal arts colleges focus on how the digital humanities effectively fulfill the learning outcomes of undergraduate liberal education. Thus they answer objections to their engagement with the digital humanities with their own brand of digital humanities, one predicated upon integration within undergraduate teaching and shared with all institutions that teach undergraduates. -Bryan Alexander and Rebecca Frost Davis, “Should Liberal Arts Campuses Do Digital Humanities? Process and Products in the Small College World”

Goals for 2017 -18 1) Workshop Series: Responsive to IWU Faculty Interest

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Goals for 2017 -18 1) Fall Workshop Series: Responsive to Faculty Interest 2) Spring Workshop Series: Advanced Workshops 3) Website: Permanent Archive of DH Topics and Tools 4) Faculty Outreach: Office Hours, Individual Contact, Classroom Support, and Project Development 5) Guest Lectures 6) Development of Five-Year Digital Humanities Plan

Five-Year DH Plan • Define shared goals for Digital Humanities integration at IWU. • Articulate ways in which Digital Humanities should inform classroom practice at IWU. • Ensure long-term integration of Digital Humanities at IWU. • Designate methodology and repository of e. Portfolios.

We live in one of those rare moments of opportunity for the humanities, not unlike other great eras of cultural-historical transformation such as the shift from the scroll to the codex, the invention of moveable type, the encounter with the New World, and the Industrial Revolution. Ours is an era in which the humanities have the potential to play a vastly expanded creative role in public life…Digital Humanities represents a major expansion of the purview of the humanities, precisely because it brings the values, representational and interpretive practices, meaningmaking strategies, complexities, and ambiguities of being human into every realm of experience and knowledge of the world. It is a global, trans-historical, and transmedia approach to knowledge and meaning-making. -Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, and Jeffrey Schnapp “Preface, ” (Digital_Humanities)