Alan Liu

“‘Literature+ ‘: A Project-Based Digital Pedagogy Model.” School of Cultural Inquiry seminar series, Australian National University. 22 July 2013.

Abstract: In this seminar, Alan Liu will discuss the paradigm of the “Literature+” courses he has evolved at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Designed to introduce students to the use of digital methods in humanities scholarship, the courses provide a rapid orientation in key topics of the “digital humanities” before then focusing on team-based project building. Liu will use the example of the course structure and of some of the student projects that have been produced to discuss larger issues of digital humanities pedagogy—including the way such pedagogy can position the humanities as both similar to and different from the “building” versus “interpreting,” collaboration, and other trends of contemporary “knowledge work” societies.

Links for Web sites Referred to in Talk:
• Literature+ courses: Winter 2012 | Previous instances
• Graduate Student Projects (selected):
  • The Close Reading Re-visited Project
  • Emily Dickinson Collocation Browsers
  • The Berlin Project
  • The Sonnet Virus
  • The Ringu Transmission Project
  • Affective Networks in Ensemble Character Dramas 1 | 2
  • The Flight Paths Project
  • Making a Face: Assessing Avatar Creation Tools
  • Animation and Audio Poetics as Process
• Undergraduate Student Projects (selected):
  • The Venetian Project
  • The Emigrants Project
  • Canterbury Blogs
  • The Romeo and Juliet Facebook Tragedy
  • Heart of Darkness Project
  • The Textones Project
  • The Borges Modeling Project