Anti-Anxiety DH
Submission Type
75-Minute Panel
Abstract
How can we improve digital humanities accessibility? In other words, how can a small, resource-strapped liberal arts humanities classroom foreground the transformative impact of digital methods of analysis without imposing a high skills or materials threshold on students?
Session
Anti Anxiety DH
Start Date
5-22-2019 1:30 PM
End Date
5-22-2019 2:45 PM
Description
Kent Shaw, Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing, uses DH to establish a quantifiable definition for the “radical revision” of a poem in his creative writing workshop. Using the Wheaton College-based stylistic analysis tool, Lexos, students compare poem drafts via digital text files which they upload to the tool. The digital component can introduce an element of gamification for some classes. It also sets a concrete challenge for injecting even more creativity into the poem.
Anti-Anxiety DH
How can we improve digital humanities accessibility? In other words, how can a small, resource-strapped liberal arts humanities classroom foreground the transformative impact of digital methods of analysis without imposing a high skills or materials threshold on students?