Untagling Text: An Introduction to the Digital Humanities

WORKSHOP PRESENTED BY:  

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum & Raffaele Viglianti
from the Maryland Institute of Technology (MITH)

The field of Digital Humanities is growing and institutionalizing.  But how do we define DH and how can we best engage with it?  Does DH challenge academic practices or merely transpose them into new forms?  And what is the potential for DH in our own work?  These questions provide the foundation for this upcoming workshop.

The presenters will guide us through some of the current projects of MITH and offer an introduction into how the research, documentation, editing, and presentation of texts in changing in the digital age.

Faculty members will have the opportunity to share their ongoing projects and ask questions about TEI coding, best practices related to textual editing, and the potential of DH in your work. 

Matthew Kirschenbaum is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland College Park and Associate Director of MITH. Kirschenbaum is the author of Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (MIT Press, 2008) and Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing (Harvard UP, 2016). 

Raffaele Viglianti is a Research Programmer working on the MITH development team. Before MITH he worked at the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London, where he contributed to several text encoding projects while also completing a PhD in Digital Musicology. Viglianti is currently an elected member of the Text Encoding Initiative technical council and an advisor for the Music Encoding Initiative. 

This Workshop is part of the Digital Humanities Faculty Working Group at UMBC.  

Participants are encouraged to bring digital samples of texts with which they are currently working.  They should read the attached articles in preparation.

Miriam Posner, "The Radical, Unrealized Potential of the Digital Humanities."

Matthew K. Gold, “Digital Humanities” in The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media.

Seating is limited. Faculty members who would like to participate in this workshop should contact Kevin Wisniewski, wisnie1@umbc.edu.