96302 - Non-Western and Multilingual Comparative Research: a New Direction in Digital Humanities (Lm)

Learning outcomes

This seminar will be organized around critical problems that have defined comparative literature and theory, with a specific focus on quantitative methods. Focusing on examples from different areas of literary study, including but not limited to non-western contexts, the course will cover advanced comparative methodologies in the humanities, qualitative and quantitative text analysis, and tools of interpretation at the close and distant reading scales.

The course is designed to help students advance their skills qualitative and quantitative text analysis, and in comparative methodologies in literary studies. Through contact with scholars or experts of different disciplinary fields, students will become familiar with the current state of the field.

Course contents

This seminar will be organized around critical problems that have defined comparative literature and theory, with a specific focus on quantitative methods. Focusing on examples from different areas of literary study, including but not limited to non-western contexts, the course will cover advanced comparative methodologies in the humanities, qualitative and quantitative text analysis, and tools of interpretation at the close and distant reading scales. It will explore interdisciplinary topics and methods of interest to students in other literary fields.

Readings/Bibliography

The specific readings and the reading schedule will be provided in the syllabus in the first seminar. The tentative bibliography is as follows:

Johanna Drucker. The Digital Humanities Coursebook: An Introduction to Digital Methods for Research and Scholarship. Routledge (2021) (Selections)

Martin Paul Eve. Close Reading with Computers. Stanford University Press (2019) (Selections)

A Companion to Comparative Literature (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)-Wiley-Blackwell (2011) (Selections)

Teaching methods

 

The seminars will focus on theoretical discussion, followed by practical exercises tailored to the research interests of students.

Assessment methods

Attendance in seminars and participation in class discussion are required. Students are expected to come to class having finished all assigned reading carefully and thoughtfully and complete the course assignments.

Office hours

See the website of Ozen Nergis Seckin Dolcerocca