Digital Literary Studies

[1.00] credits · Undergraduate

A seminar designed to allow students to delve into a particular aspect of digital literary studies in depth, understanding the critical debate surrounding it, experimenting with techniques or tools associated with it, and reflecting critically on its implications. Topics will vary and may include: Writing in the Digital Age; Topic Modelling for Literary Studies; Literary Networks; and Digital Humanities, Feminisms and Diversity. The course will engage aspects of digital textuality and literary study such as: e-literature; interactive digital narrative, including video games; non-linear long-form arguments, including hypertext; semantic text encoding; exploration of several digital writing platforms; the rhetoric of interface and the materiality of digital media; text analysis; and visualization.