Topics in the Digital Humanities: Teaching with Digital Humanities (ePub)

Jennifer Travis and Jessica DeSpain present a long-overdue collection of theoretical perspectives and case studies aimed at teaching nineteenth-century American literature using digital humanities tools and methods. Scholars foundational to the development of digital humanities join educators who have made digital methods central to their practices. Together they discuss and illustrate how digital pedagogies deepen student learning. The collection's innovative approach allows the works to be read in any order. Dividing the essays into five sections, Travis and DeSpain curate conversations on the value of project-based, collaborative learning; examples of real-world assignments where students combine close, collaborative, and computational reading; how digital humanities aids in the consideration of marginal texts; the ways in which an ethics of care can help students organize artifacts; and how an activist approach affects debates central to the study of difference in the nineteenth century.|
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Title Page
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Digital Humanities and the Nineteenth-Century American Literature Classroom
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PART ONE. MAKE
1. Kaleidoscopic Pedagogy in the Classroom Laboratory
2. The Trials and Errors of Building Prudence Person's Scrapbook: An Annotated Digital Editio
3. Nineteenth-Century Literary History in a Web 2.0 World
PART TWO. READ
4. Melville by Design
5. Data Approaches to Emily Dickinson and Eliza R. Snow
6. Reading Macro and Micro Trends in Nineteenth-Century Theater History
PART THREE. RECOVER
7. What We've Learned (about Recovery) through the Just Teach One Project
8. The Just Teach One: Early African American Print Project
9. Teaching the Politics and Practice of Textual Recovery with DIY Critical Editions
PART FOUR. ARCHIVE
10. Putting Students "In Whitman's Hand"
11. Making Digital Humanities Tools More Culturally Specific and More Culturally Sensitive
12. Teaching Bioregionalism in a Digital Age
PART FIVE. ACT
13. DH and the American Literature Canon in Pedagogical Practice
14. Uncle Tom's Cabin and Archives of Injustice
15. Merging Print and Digital Literacies in the African American Literature Classroom
About the Contributors
Index|Jennifer Travis is professor and chair of English at St. John's University. Her most recent book is Danger and Vulnerability in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Jessica DeSpain is an associate professor of English language and literature, editor of The Wide, Wide World Digital Edition, and co-director of the Interdisciplinary Research and Informatics Scholarship (IRIS) Center at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She is the author of Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Reprinting and the Embodied Book