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In class Discussion and exploration of electronic literature. Assignments Read Introduction to Critical Code Studies by Mark C. Marino Read “Seattle Drift” by Jim Andrews, including its code (right click and view page source to access code) Write a brief discussion of how the code contributes to your understanding of the work. Introduction to Racing… Continue reading Week 12: Electronic Literature

In Class Assigned exploration and readings: Debates in the Digital Humanities (2011) Read Chapter 1: “What Is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments?” by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum. Debates in the Digital Humanities (2016) Debates in the Digital Humanities (2019) Guides: WCU Digital Humanities Wikipedia entry on DH Text Processing & Analysis: Markov… Continue reading Week 11: Digital Humanities

In class Discussion of decolonization and feminist disability studies Assignment Explore Debates in the Digital Humanities (2011) Read Chapter 1: “What Is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments?” by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum. Debates in the Digital Humanities (2016) Debates in the Digital Humanities (2019) Write 1+ page response to Kirschenbaum’s chapter including… Continue reading Week 10: Intersectionality

In class Rethinking the Annotated Bibliography Discussion of The Matrix and cultural studies concepts Assignment Readings (and viewings): Feminism and Queer Theory (23-25) Laura Mulvey (2179-2193) Judith Butler (2485-2501) “The waves of feminism, and why people keep fighting over them, explained“ Michel Foucault, the History of Sexuality (1648-1666) Michael Behrent, “The True Foucault“ Assignment: Watch… Continue reading Week 7: Is everything a Text?

In class Discussion of Psychoanalytic Theories and Criticism: Freud – model of the mind, mechanisms (repression, suppression, condensation, displacement), manifest and latent content – Adrienne Rich “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers“ Lacan – the mirror stage, the imaginary, the symbolic, and the real – Jorge Luis Borges, “On Exactitude in Science“ Kristeva – chora, semiotic, symbolic –… Continue reading Week 6: Ideology and the Unconscious

The production of knowledge is the academy’s very reason for being, and if we cling to an outdated system for establishing and measuring authority while the nature of authority is shifting around us, we run the risk of becoming increasingly irrelevant to contemporary culture’s dominant ways of knowing. Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Planned Obsolescence, pg. 17 In… Continue reading Week 4: Ways of Knowing

In class (document): Introductions Survey Designing the syllabus Getting to know our faculty Assignment (for next class) Read Entering the Conversation: Introduction and Part 1 (link) Getting to know our faculty: Visit: https://english.appstate.edu/faculty-staff Table 1: Atkinson to Flores Table 2: Groover to Wahpeconiah Table 3: Wilson to Searfoss Table 4: Vernon to Mannon Activity: Read… Continue reading Week 1: Customizing the Course