NINETEENTH-CENTURY DIGITAL HUMANITIES

ROGER WHITSONDEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY22 JANUARY 2014

My work examines the nineteenth century as a digital system.

WILLIAM BLAKE AND THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES: COLLABORATION, PARTICIPATION, AND SOCIAL MEDIA.

LONDON: ROUTLEGE, 2013.

STEAMPUNK AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY DIGITAL HUMANITIES: LITERARY RETROFUTURISM, ALTERNATE HISTORY, AND PHYSICAL COMPUTATION

LONDON: ROUTLEDGE, UNDER ADVANCED CONTRACT. COMPLETION EXPECTED MARCH 2016

SPOILER WARNING!!!

“STEM to STEAMpunk: Critical Making

as Literary Scholarship” New Faculty

Seed Grant. 2014-15. $17,330

“Critical

Making in the

Digital

Humanities”

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“Making Steampunk, or,

How to Theorize with a

Hammer and an Oven”

“Steampunk Anachronisms:

Queer Histories

of the Digital Humanities”

“Bits and Minute Particulars:

Blakean Responses to

Maker Culture”

Pedagogy and Teaching

Pedagogy: Using technology to connect students with the history and future of literature.

Courses Designed - 10 at WSU

• ENGL 366: Novel to 1900 (Technologies of Reading), Published Article

• DTC 375, 2 sections (Programming, Games, Media)

• ENGL 521: British Romanticism (19th C Media Studies)

• ENGL 487: British Romanticism (The Romantic Period)

• DTC 355, 2 sections (HTML, CSS, and J-Query)

• DTC 356, 2 sections (History and Culture of Data)

• ENGL 522: Victorian Literature (Steampunk and 19th C)

Graduate Supervising

• MA: Hallie Kaiser (chair), Scarlett Anguiano (chair), Ryan House, Owen Williams

• PhD: Jenna Leeds, Jacob Friedman

Thanks!