Call for Papers: The CEA Critic special issue on Digital Humanities Pedagogy
The editors of The CEA Critic recently accepted our proposal for a special issue on Digital Humanities Pedagogy (Spring 2014). We imagined having this special issue move beyond digital humanities theory to practical application with articles addressing pedagogical approaches to introducing undergraduates to one or more aspects of digital humanities:
- transcribing, metadata writing, annotating, and basic TEI coding in conjunction with a startup or established digitization project
- datamining: creating narratives of digital texts based on searched terms or defining search terms for future researchers
- using digital editions to teach students paratextual influence
- analyzing and evaluating the vitality of and scholarly rigor within digital editions with ancillary editorial apparatuses versus open-source digital libraries (e.g. Project Gutenburg, Internet Archive, Google Books, Gale databases)
- using TEI tags to enhance research skills and develop annotation awareness as both creator and user
- writing hyperlinked annotations as a tool to increase scholarship and boost students’ researching skills
- collaborating across disciplines to engage the non-humanities major in digital humanities projects
Proposals for the 3,000-5,000-word articles should not exceed 500 words. Please submit proposals to digitalhumanities@ttu.edu by 15 June 2013.
All queries should also be sent to the aforementioned email address. Please consult The CEA Critic site for formatting guidelines: http://www.cea-web.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15&Itemid=30
End of Semester work
It has been an intense sixteen weeks, but students of Dr. Curtis Bauer’s graduate seminar, The History and Theory of Printing, have produced several amazing broadsides. Some of the students’s incredible work went for sale at this year’s Association of Writers and Writing Programs 2013 conference in Boston, MA and at the Sowell Collection 2013 conference in Lubbock, TX. Below are pictures of the students’s work designed and printed in the English department’s Letterpress Laboratory at Texas Tech University. Dr. Bauer’s students will be finish printing their final broadside projects this week, so check back soon for more pictures of their work.
AWP broadside ready for printing.
Newly made form ready for printing.
Advertisement for guest speakers at the 2013 Sowell Collection conference at Texas Tech University.
Posters for the 2013 Sowell Collection conference at Texas Tech University
Newly made form ready for printing in the Vandercook Zero hand press.
Newly made form ready for printing.
Sowell Collection conference broadsides.
Newly made form in the proof press before printing on the Washington hand press.
Newly made form ready for printing.
Wrapping the tympan.
Wrapping the frisket.
First blog post.
Today is the first day we are using the blog for The Center for Book History and Digital Humanities. This interdisciplinary Center, located in the English department at Texas Tech University, was formed to aid academic study of printing technologies, books and book making, and how digital transformations of text reveal an ever-evolving landscape of print and media literacy.
The Center is divided into three workspaces designed for ongoing scholarly projects as well as undergraduate and graduate level teaching: the Digital Humanities Lab, the Letterpress Lab, and the Book History Lab .
Be sure to check back periodically for updates.
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