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Teaching Attentive Reading And Motivated Writing Through Digital Editing, Amanda A Gailey
Teaching Attentive Reading And Motivated Writing Through Digital Editing, Amanda A Gailey
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Though English departments, including my own at the University of Nebraska, have been teaching digital humanities (DH) courses for over a decade, hyperbolic claims about the perils and promises of using computers in the study of literature continue to appear in the press. A piece in the Los Angeles Review of Books likens the algorithms used by some digital humanities methods to fascism (Marche). Another, in The Huffington Post, compares the rise of digital humanities to “our uncritical acceptance of drone attacks” (Mohamed). On the other hand, digital humanists such as Franco Moretti, who famously promote “distant reading” as opposed …