• DH events 

• Status of course blog posts

• Final Project Prospectus assignment:
• Abstract
• Narrative
• "Environmental scan"
• Work plan
• Consider staged or modular work plans, starting with what you or a small group of you could individually do that could contribute to your dissertation(s).
• Budget
• Cf., RoSE Proposal Budget
• Funding request + "cost share"
• Direct costs + indirect costs
• GSR's vs. RA's
• Benefits
• Hours of work  & kinds of work
• Method of project evaluation

• Proposal presentations in our final class:
• Aim for 6 minute "lightning" presentations, followed by 4 minutes of discussion with class (total of about 10 minutes for each proposal)
• To facilitate presenting, prepare a page in the Project Prospectuses folder on the Student Work site for the course that includes an abstract and link to your presentation (or you can you the page to hold your presentation in toto).  Also consider posting about your prospectus on your blog.
• Upload or link in advance to any necessary presentation files (e.g., Powerpoints), so that Alan can preload them before class to speed things up.
• You can also use your own computer to present, so long as you have an adapter for the VGA cable.
• Let Alan know if you have special hardware or software needs for the presentation (e.g., sound).

• Focal Question for class 1 What kind of "human" subject do the digital humanities speak from, to, for?
• Focal Question for today's class How can the digital humanities contribute to the humanities in helping human beings understand other ways of "understanding" and of being "human"?

• Elizabeth Allen's exercise 
• Dalia Bolotnikov's exercise
• Rebecca Chenoweth's exercise

• Charlyne Sarmiento's exercise
• Phillip Cortes's exercise

• Nissa Cannon's exercise
• Corrigan Vaughn's exercise
• Juan Llamas-Rodriguez's exercise

• Gabe Baker's exercise
• Sienna Cordoba's exercise
• Nicole Dib's exercise
• Inez's exercise

• Ashley Champagne's exercise
• Bhargavi Narayanan's exercise

• Lisa Samuels and Jerome J. McGann, "Deformance and Interpretation" (1999)
• cf., The Gorgeous Nothings, Emily Dickinson, edited by Marta Werner and Jen Bervin
  
• Stephen Ramsay, "Algorithmic Criticism" (2004) (See also his "Toward an Algorithmic Criticism" [2003])
• Mark Sample, "Notes Towards a Deformed Humanities" (2012)
• Douglas B. Kell and Stephen G. Oliver, "Here is the Evidence, Now What is the Hypothesis? - The Complementary Roles of Inductive and Hypothesis-driven Science in the Post-genomic Era" [PDF]

• Resources that may help in our discussion:
• Undergraduate DH projects from Alan's "Literature+" courses
• Romeo and Juliet: A Facebook Tragedy
• The Canterbury Blogs
• Borges: An Exploration in Modeling
• The Little Prince Project
• "Heart of Darkness" project  (screencapture of project)
• Alan's diagrams comparing modes of literary "analysis":  1  |  2 

• Alan Liu, "Where is Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities?" (2012)
• Todd Presner, "Critical Theory and the Mangle of Digital Humanities" [draft version; PDF] (2012)
• Todd Presner, "The Ethics of the Algorithm: Close and Distant Listening to the Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive" (2012) [draft version; PDF]
• Patrik Svensson, "Envisioning the Digital Humanities" (2012)
• David M. Berry, "Introduction: Understanding the Digital Humanities" [PDF] (2012)

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• Adeline Koh and Roopika Risam, ed., #DHpoco “Open Thread: The Digital Humanities as a Historical ‘Refuge’ from Race/Class/Gender/Sexuality/Disability?” (May 10-14, 2013)
• See also Postcolonial Digital Humanities (#DHpoco) "Founding Principles"
• Tara McPherson, "Why Are the Digital Humanities So White? or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation" (2012)
• Anne Cong-Huyen, "Transformative Asian/American Digital Humanities" (2013)
• Michael Widner, "The Digital Humanists' (Lack of) Response to the Surveillance State" (20 Aug. 2013) (see also Widner's summary of Twitter and other debates about his post)

• Focal Readings
• The Deformance Thesis
• Lisa Samuels and Jerome J. McGann, "Deformance and Interpretation" (1999) [paywalled; UCSB students have free access through UCSB Library Proxy server]
• Stephen Ramsay, "Algorithmic Criticism" (2004) (See also his "Toward an Algorithmic Criticism" [2003])
• Mark Sample, "Notes Towards a Deformed Humanities" (2012)
• Douglas B. Kell and Stephen G. Oliver, "Here is the Evidence, Now What is the Hypothesis? - The Complementary Roles of Inductive and Hypothesis-driven Science in the Post-genomic Era" [PDF] (2003)[paywalled; UCSB students have free access through UCSB Library Proxy server]
• The Transform Thesis (also see some of the readings for Class 2)
• Alan Liu, "Where is Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities?" (2012)
• Todd Presner, "Critical Theory and the Mangle of Digital Humanities" [draft version; PDF] (2012)
• Tara McPherson, "Why Are the Digital Humanities So White? or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation" (2012)
• Adeline Koh and Roopika Risam, ed., #DHpoco “Open Thread: The Digital Humanities as a Historical ‘Refuge’ from Race/Class/Gender/Sexuality/Disability?” (May 10-14, 2013)
• See also Postcolonial Digital Humanities (#DHpoco) "Founding Principles"
• Anne Cong-Huyen, "Transformative Asian/American Digital Humanities" (2013)
• Michael Widner, "The Digital Humanists' (Lack of) Response to the Surveillance State" (20 Aug. 2013) (see also Widner's summary of Twitter and other debates about his post)

• Other Readings
• Deform:
• Amy Leggette, "The Digi-Flânerie Field Guide: Approaching Data as Artifact" (2013)
• Benjamin J. Robertson, "Shuffle Culture: Archive, Mashup, Apparatus, Human" (2013)
• Transform:
• Patrik Svensson, "Envisioning the Digital Humanities" (2012)
• David M. Berry, "Introduction: Understanding the Digital Humanities" [PDF] (2012)
• Todd Presner, "The Ethics of the Algorithm: Close and Distant Listening to the Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive" (2012) [draft version; PDF]
• "The Dark Side of the Digital" - browse schedule and materials:
• MLA Panel (2012)
• The Dark Side of Digital Humanities – Part 1, by Wendy Chun
  The Dark Side of Digital Humanities – Part 2, by Richard Grusin
  The Dark Side of Digital Humanities – Part 3, by Patrick Jagoda
  The Dark Side of Digital Humanities – Part 4, by Rita Raley
  Summary of Panel by Alexis Lothian
• U. Milwaukee Conference (2013)