Full Description
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. 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.
A supplemental companion website with substantial appendixes of syllabi and assignments is now available for readers of Teaching with Digital Humanities.
Contents
CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Digital Humanities and the Nineteenth-Century American Literature ClassroomAdditional TagsPART ONE. MAKE1. Kaleidoscopic Pedagogy in the Classroom Laboratory2. The Trials and Errors of Building Prudence Person's Scrapbook: An Annotated Digital Editio3. Nineteenth-Century Literary History in a Web 2.0 WorldPART TWO. READ4. Melville by Design5. Data Approaches to Emily Dickinson and Eliza R. Snow6. Reading Macro and Micro Trends in Nineteenth-Century Theater HistoryPART THREE. RECOVER7. What We've Learned (about Recovery) through the Just Teach One Project8. The Just Teach One: Early African American Print Project9. Teaching the Politics and Practice of Textual Recovery with DIY Critical EditionsPART FOUR. ARCHIVE10. Putting Students "In Whitman's Hand"11. Making Digital Humanities Tools More Culturally Specific and More Culturally Sensitive12. Teaching Bioregionalism in a Digital AgePART FIVE. ACT13. DH and the American Literature Canon in Pedagogical Practice14. Uncle Tom's Cabin and Archives of Injustice15. Merging Print and Digital Literacies in the African American Literature ClassroomAbout the ContributorsIndex
