nineteenth-century digital humanities
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NINETEENTH-CENTURY DIGITAL HUMANITIES
ROGER WHITSONDEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY22 JANUARY 2014
My work examines the nineteenth century as a digital system.
WILLIAM BLAKE AND THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES: COLLABORATION, PARTICIPATION, AND SOCIAL MEDIA.
LONDON: ROUTLEGE, 2013.
STEAMPUNK AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY DIGITAL HUMANITIES: LITERARY RETROFUTURISM, ALTERNATE HISTORY, AND PHYSICAL COMPUTATION
LONDON: ROUTLEDGE, UNDER ADVANCED CONTRACT. COMPLETION EXPECTED MARCH 2016
SPOILER WARNING!!!
“STEM to STEAMpunk: Critical Making
as Literary Scholarship” New Faculty
Seed Grant. 2014-15. $17,330
“Critical
Making in the
Digital
Humanities”
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“Making Steampunk, or,
How to Theorize with a
Hammer and an Oven”
“Steampunk Anachronisms:
Queer Histories
of the Digital Humanities”
“Bits and Minute Particulars:
Blakean Responses to
Maker Culture”
Pedagogy and Teaching
Pedagogy: Using technology to connect students with the history and future of literature.
Courses Designed - 10 at WSU
• ENGL 366: Novel to 1900 (Technologies of Reading), Published Article
• DTC 375, 2 sections (Programming, Games, Media)
• ENGL 521: British Romanticism (19th C Media Studies)
• ENGL 487: British Romanticism (The Romantic Period)
• DTC 355, 2 sections (HTML, CSS, and J-Query)
• DTC 356, 2 sections (History and Culture of Data)
• ENGL 522: Victorian Literature (Steampunk and 19th C)
Graduate Supervising
• MA: Hallie Kaiser (chair), Scarlett Anguiano (chair), Ryan House, Owen Williams
• PhD: Jenna Leeds, Jacob Friedman
Thanks!