LDH is for any literary scholar making their foray into the world of digital humanities (and vice versa). I'd like to discuss new ideas in data mining narratives, visualizing literary interpretation, and new books that bridge these two fields. Experts, we'd love your advice, too! All bibliophiles welcome.
Literature & Digital Humanities
Recent Posts
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Early Modern Digital Agendas: Network Analysis
We invite applications to attend Early Modern Digital Agendas: Network Analysis, a two-week institute to be be hosted at the Folger Institute, Washington DC, from 17-28 July 2017. This will be the third iteration of Early Modern Digital Agendas, each of which has been generously supported by the...Folger Shakespeare LibraryFolger Shakespeare LibraryWashington, DC 20003-1004United StatesNo comments -
Digital Humanities Caucus Meet-up at American Studies Conference
Topic:Will you be at the American Studies Association conference this year? If so, please join us for the ASA Digital Humanities Caucus Reception! When? Thursday, November 17, 7.30pm Where? Paramount Café, 519 16th St, Denver, CO We hope to see you and your colleagues, students, and friends there! Please...Paramount Café519 16th St.Denver, CO 80202United States -
Digital Humanities at Illinois Tech (Tenure-Track Assistant Professor)
Topic:The Department of Humanities at Illinois Institute of Technology seeks a tenure-track assistant professor of digital humanities for a Fall 2017 appointment. Our ideal candidate will be a digital humanities scholar with disciplinary expertise in one of our core areas: communication; history;... -
Call for Courses: DH@Guelph, Summer 2017
Topic:After two successful years of summer workshops at the University of Guelph, there is now an open call for course proposals for May 2017. Workshops on any aspect of digital humanities work will be considered and the proposals will be selected by the local organizing committee. The DH Summer... -
Digital Humanist focused on Technology and Diversity in Historical Context
Topic:San Diego State University seeks a Digital Humanist at the rank of assistant or associate professor who can lead and develop our Area of Excellence in “Digital Humanities and Global Diversity” to pursue and foster intersectional, interdisciplinary, collaborative research, and teaching. (For more... -
Writing in a Digital Age: Surveillance, Privacy, Infrastructures & Writing
Topic:Editors: Estee Beck & Les Hutchinson For over the past twenty years, writing studies scholarship has addressed issues of surveillance and privacy within writing inf rast ructures through course management systems, plagiarism detection software, and social media use in class rooms. For example,... 
Blog Post / Teaching & Learning Practices
Digital Pedagogy; or, How to Engage Your Students to #StayWoke
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Using R for Text Analysis
R is a statistical package used by many digital textual analysts to explore aspects of styelometry. Here at IU, we have an instance of the popular Rstudio running on Karst to facilitate work on large corpora. However, it is often helpful to begin work with a small test set (sometimes even a single...Indiana UniversityHazelbaker Hall (Wells Library E159)Bloomington, INUnited States -
Data is the New Black: Scholarship and citizenship in a connected world
Topic:Big data, big history, distant reading, the return of the longue durée—digital scholarship in the humanities favors large-scale and long-term approaches. Using data-driven methods, we can now explore texts and sources at previously unimaginable magnitudes, but do these experimental avenues of...Indiana UniversityWells’ Library’s Hazelbaker HallBloomington, INUnited States 
Blog Post / Humanities, Arts & Media
Review of Videogames for Humans: Twine Authors in Conversation, edited by Merritt Kopas (Instar Books)
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Panel Discussion: Explorations in Antient and Medieval Studies (TAMeR HASTAC Group)
Topic:HASTAC CONFERENCE 2015 Indicative of the robust range of possibilities for employing the digital humanities within Ancient and Medieval scholarship, this panel brings together scholars working in several fields who use a digital component as part of their approach to pedagogy, collaboration, or...United States 
Blog Post / Publishing & Archives
Visualization of Medieval and Modern Digital Collections: Come to our Panel TAMeR - #HASTAC2015
Blog Post / Humanities, Arts & Media
Medieval Language Collection In the 21st Century: To Be or Not To Be
Blog Post / Humanities, Arts & Media
Measuring Edwin Drood: Experiments with Literary Data, Gephi
