Syllabus, ENGL 604: Black Digital Humanities
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Syllabus of a Department of English graduate course, Black Digital Humanities. ENGL 604, Black Digital Humanities (Black DH), explore the intersections of African-American literature, editing and recovery, and digital humanities. Following the concept of juxtaposition, what Kelly Baker Josephs and Roopika Risam see as the intersection of disciplines, cultures, and methods (Introduction, The Digital Black Atlantic 2021), the course will consist of traditional class discussion and lab days that bridge theoretical with the methodological and applied contents. We will examine a broad range of scholarship including traditional print scholarship, such as a digital edition of Jean Toomers Cane or secondary scholarship such as The Digital Black Atlantic, data/text repositories, such as those created by the History of Black Writing, digital projects, such as the Black Gotham Archive, and multimedia sources such as Mark Anthony Neals web series Left of Black or #ADPHDPROJECT, Jessica Marie Johnsons Instagram repository of Projects Highlighting Social Justice x Atlantic African Diaspora History. Students will learn to work with dh tools like voyant, omeka, TEI/XML, and databases.
