Materials F26

There is a required book in this course. It is an e-book. In addition to this ebook, the course site will have links to e-book chapters, research articles or other open, online materials and tutorials of interest.

There will be installation of some software and/or signups in online platforms in order to complete the exercises for the hands-on labs. Students will be provided with tutorials for such installation.

Required e-book:

1. Drucker, The Digital Humanities Coursebook (Routledge, 2021).

Optional Background reading:

• Arnold/Tilton, Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images (MIT, 2023).
• Bavaj et al, Doing Spatial History (Routledge, 2021).
• Bardiot, Performing Arts and Digital Humanities: From Traces to Data (ISTE/Wiley, 2021)
• Berry/Fagerjord, Digital Humanities: Knowledge Critique in a Digital Age (Polity, 2017).
• Bodenhamer et al, The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship
• Bodenhamer et al, Deep Maps and Spatial Narratives.
• Bodenhamer et al, Making Deep Maps (Routledge, 2022).
• Booth/Posner, Varieties of Digital Humanities, PMLA 135.1(Jan 2020).
• Brunn and Dodge, Mapping Across Academia
• Burdick et al. Digital_Humanities (MIT, 2014) open access download here.
• Damman and Kremer (eds.), Geographical Research in the Digital Humanities (Bielefeld UP, 2024) open access download here
• D’Ignazio and Klein, Data Feminism.
• Du Preez, Voices from the South: Digital Arts and Humanities (Aosis, 2018).
• Eve, The Digital Humanities and Literary Studies (Oxford, 2022).
• Fiormonte/Chaudhuri/Ricaurte, Global Debates in the Digital Humanities, (Minnesota, 2022).
• Gold & Klein, Debates in the Digital Humanities (Minnesota) 2012, 2016, 2019, 2023.
• Gómez, Digital Arts (Brill, 2019).
• Graham and Dittus, Geographies of Digital Exclusion
• Hankins et al. Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities
• Kokensparger, Guide to Programming for the Digital Humanities : Lessons for Introductory Python (Springer, 2018).
• Nieves, McGrail & Senier, People, Practice, Power : Digital Humanities Outside the Center (Minnesota, 2021)
• O’Sullivan, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Digital Humanities (Bloomsbury, 2022).
• Price/Siemens, Literary Studies in the Digital Age (MLA, 2019).
• Risam, New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities (Northwestern, 2019).
• Risam, Data Empire: The Power of Information to Organize, Control and Dominate (Harper, 2026).
• Risam and Josephs (eds), The Digital Black Atlantic (Minnesota, 2021).
• Rockwell and Sinclair, Hermeneutica : Computer-Assisted Interpretation in the Humanities (MIT, 2016).
• Salmi, What is Digital History? (Polity, 2021)
• Schwan and Thomson, The Palgrave handbook of digital and public humanities (Palgrave, 2023).
• Schreibman/Siemens/Unsworth, A New Companion to Digital Humanities (Wiley Blackwell, 2016).
• Tilton et al, Computational Humanities
• Travis/van Lünen, The Digital Arts and Humanities (Springer, 2019).
• Travis, Abstract Machine: Humanities GIS (ESRI, 2015).
• Wernimont/Losh, Bodies of Information: Digital Humanities and Intersectional Feminism (Minnesota, 2018).

A reference guide for Digital Arts and Humanities has been prepared by the NYUAD library.

Supplementary learning materials available on the web:

• The Programming Historian
• Dariah Campus
• Humanities Data Fundamentals
• Mattingly, Introduction to Python for Humanists
• Arnold & Tilton, Humanities Data in R 2nd edition.
• Walsh, Introduction to Cultural Analytics and Python

And more to come….