New Course: Introduction to Digital Humanities

Almost since the beginning of my career I have been involved in projects that fall under the umbrella of what we call today, the “digital humanities,” especially my project Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine.  Only recently, though, I have I begun to think of myself – or really part of myself – as a “digital humanist,” as I’ve explored conferences and tools (and even learned a bit of Python).  So I figured it was time to start thinking both about giving myself a more systematic introduction to the field and incorporating it into my teaching.

The result is a new course that I’ll be teaching (yes, that makes two new courses this semester, which is its own story), a graduate course (although I’ll take advanced undergraduates as well) called “Introduction to Digital Humanities,” the first time a course like this has been offered at Brown University.

The course has three primary goals.  It should:

1. Introduce you to DH as a field, with its own sense of theory, methodology, and best-practices;
2. Give you hands-on training in the basic tools of DH;
3. Facilitate the development of your own project in DH, whether at an early stage (e.g., a concept paper, research paper, or draft of a grant application) or a more developed prototype.

The syllabus is here.  Comments welcome!