Discussion

The history of digital Humanities (what is Digital Humanities? part II.)

We will discuss the following essay:

• Susan Hockey, The History of Humanities Computing, in “Companion to Digital Humanities”

and confront it with (optional readings):

• Melissa Terras, and Julianne Nyhan. Father Busa’s Female Punch Card Operatives, in “Debates in the Digital Humanities”, edited by Matthew Gold and Lauren Klein (Ann Arbor, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 2016).
• William G. Thomas, Computing and the Historical Imagination, in “Companion to Digital Humanities”. The essay discusses “The Valley of Shadows”, examined in the previous class.