ENG 295-01 - Special Topic: Lighting the Page: Digital Methods in Literary Studies

4 credits (Spring)

This course will introduce students to methods used in the digital humanities, with a special emphasis on applications to literary studies. Readings will include literary texts as well as recent contributions to criticism and theory in digital humanities. The three major sections of the course will involve 1) engaging the theory and practice of electronic literature, then writing a work of e-lit; 2) creating a group web project about geography and race in Washington, D.C. based on Edward P. Jones’s Lost in the City, and 3) engaging in computational text analysis of literary works and student writing, including introductory exercises in Python programming. No technical skills are required, but willingness to gain them is fundamental to the course.

Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121.
Instructor: Simpson