Preliminary Class Business
- 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).
1. Intro to Class
- 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"?
2. Your Practicums
3. The Deformance Thesis
- Resources that may help in our discussion:
- Undergraduate DH projects from Alan's "Literature+" courses
- Alan's diagrams comparing modes of literary "analysis": 1 | 2
4. The "Transform" Thesis
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5. Readings for This Class (with instructors annotations)
- Focal Readings
- The Deformance Thesis
- The Transform Thesis (also see some of the readings for Class 2)