MITH610

Introduction to Digital Studies in the Arts and Humanities

Digital Studies is an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and teaching that offers graduate students a chance to combine the critical study of new forms of digital media and identity with creative and analytical practices utilizing digital media and the application of computational tools and techniques to traditional areas of humanistic study and critical social scientific inquiry. While it is often hands-on or applied, Digital Studies encourages—indeed demands—work that is primarily critical, theoretical, historical, or experimental in nature.
No special skills are necessary or assumed other than a willingness to experiment and learn. Students from all disciplines are welcome.

Class Projects

MITH 610 Web

During the Spring of 2022 the class made a website with information about readings and links to relevant content for the students. You can check the site here.

Colloquium

Each semester we offer this colloquium as a way to keep up to date with research and developments in the digital humanities. These are relaxed meetings aimed to discuss a topic, work on a digital tool, comment on a book or talk with a guest. In recent semesters we have had a conversation with Lisa Nakamura, a workshop with Dr. Rianna Walcott, and a conversation about Roopika Risam's book New Digital Worlds.