This short presentation, followed by discussion, will focus on how the digital public humanities (DPH) informs pedagogy in a small liberal arts college setting. Dr. Tilton will focus on the opportunities and challenges of using DPH to engage students in ways to make scholarly arguments. She will address these issues by way of case studies: a first-year seminar; an upper-level course, and a large-scale, collaborative research project.

Suggested readings:

• Sean McCarthy and Andrew Witmer, “Notes Toward a Values-Driven Framework for Digital Humanities Pedagogy,” Hybrid Pedagogy, 29 March 2016
• Jordana Cox and Lauren Tilton, “The Digital Public Humanities: Giving New Arguments and New Ways to Argue,” The Review of Communication, forthcoming (please sign up for a pre-publication copy and please do not circulate or quote from the essay until it is published unless you receive permission from the authors)

Lauren Tilton is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of Rhetoric & Communication Studies and Research Fellow in the Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL) at the University of Richmond. Her research focuses on U.S. visual culture. She is director of Photogrammar, a digital public humanities project mapping New Deal and World War II documentary expression funded by the ACLS and NEH, and co-author of Humanities Data in R: Exploring Networks, Geospatial Data, Images and Texts (Springer, 2015). Work has appeared in journals such as Digital Humanity Quarterly and Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.  Her current project, Distant Viewing, focuses on large scale image analysis using computer vision and is funded by the NEH.

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About Davis Digital Pedagogy Zoom Sessions

Funded with a generous grant from the Davis Educational Foundation, the Davis Digital Pedagogy Zoom Sessions help Middlebury College faculty develop digital innovations in their pedagogy, with a particular focus on student research and thesis work. Grounded in discussion and exchange, they typically feature a guest scholar and take place online, through Middlebury’s Zoom videoconference application.

Davis Digital Pedagogy Zoom Session: The Digital Public Humanities, Giving New Arguments & New Ways to Argue—Lauren Tilton