Guest DH Workshop Teaching at W&L
Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Washington and Lee University was a collaborating with the Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia to bring UVA graduate students to give presentations or workshops on their digital research to enrich undergraduate courses at W&L. The grant aimed to give graduate students the opportunity to develop workshop materials based on their work in digital humanities and to gain experience teaching in a liberal arts context in preparation for the job market. W&L courses and students gained contact with cutting edge digital research and pedagogy.
Graduate students who participated received a $500 honorarium in exchange for their work consulting with the W&L faculty member, preparing and delivering their materials in a course visit, and then following up with the faculty member afterwards. These questions guided the students:
- How might you take your research interests as they pertain to digital humanities and articulate them to undergraduates in a single class session?
- How can you imagine reshaping your project into a teaching workshop? What hands-on activities can you use to shape a discussion of the work for newcomers?
- How can you connect your interest to the particular course topic?
Some past presentations included:
- Basics of project management with a workshop on writing charters (documents to establish goals and rules for the team) for a DH intro course
- Introduction to web design by discussing “bad” websites for a DH intro course
- Discussion of use of digital humanities for theatre followed by a Prism game asking students to map stage directions in Hamlet for a course on King Lear
- Introduction to text analysis through a hands-on exercise on topic modeling for an intro to DH course
- Lecture on the history of technology in fashion and hands-on sewing workshop for a seminar on Fashion in Global History, drawing on grad student’s own research in wearable technology
- Design jams for helping students scope, shape, and develop their own course projects
Past posts by participants:
- Mapping Alone, Together by Crystal Luo
- Working on a Workshop (aka outlining a possible workshop about DH and Sound) by Connor Kenaston
- To be out in the world, to be free! by Janet S. Dunkelbarger
- Thinking About [Art] Collections As Data by Chloe Downe Wells
- Exploring Power through Playacting & Virtual Reality by Lauren Van Nest
- Unmaking and Remaking the Archive by Natasha Roth-Rowland
- DH Pedagogy Roadshow by Mackenzie Brooks and Brandon Walsh
- Sounding Scholarship: A Workshop on Making Your Research Sing by Emily Mellen
- String Theory, or: Let's Explore Social Networks with String! by Chris Whitehead
- Teaching Transcription (and Secretly Metaphysics) by Catherine Addington
- Teaching Black Arts Poetry and Computational Methods by Ethan Reed
- Writing in Public (on Purpose) at Washington & Lee University by Catherine Addington
- All About the Archive: Guest Teaching at Washington and Lee by Lauren Reynolds
- My Experience Leading a Workshop on Text Analysis at Washington and Lee University by Sarah McEleney
- Why To Teach Students to Not-Read Novels by James P. Ascher
- The Long and Messy History of Privacy by Shane Lin
- “Gothic DH” at Washington and Lee by Christian Howard
- Using DH to Explore Movement and Meaning by Kelli Shermeyer
- One Teach, One Drift by Ed Triplett
- On co-teaching and gratitude by Sarah Storti
- Washington and Lee Trip by Brandon Walsh