Many scholars and teachers of the Bible in the medieval period know that a general introduction to the subject is hard to find. There is, of course, the monumental Cambridge History of the Bible (volume 2), as well Beryl Smalley's The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages, which remains a landmark, thought it focuses mainly on the twelfth … Continue reading Review of Frans van Liere’s An Introduction to the Medieval Bible
The Day of DH came and went this past Tuesday (April 8), and the internet was abuzz with people's activities. This year was the first time I got into the mix, since I found out about it only too late to participate last year. I spent my day with others at UConn who are interested in digital … Continue reading Day of DH Posts
One thing that I am continually interested in is how notions of "distant reading" (broadly understood) may be used to think about not only large corpora but also small corpora (as in my Judith project). A few weeks ago, I had a conversation with Yohei Igarashi (recently hired in English at UConn) about his work … Continue reading Premodern Distant Reading? A Case of Hrabanus Maurus
In Secret Scriptures Revealed: A New Introduction to the Christian Apocrypha (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2013), Tony Burke offers an excellent tour for all those interested in the subject. The book presents a lucid, accessible introduction appropriate to newcomers as well as anyone looking for a big-picture approach to the subject. Burke demonstrates clear knowledge … Continue reading Review of Tony Burke’s Secret Scriptures Revealed
A few days ago, The Chronicle of Higher Education published a piece titled "Undergraduate Science Gains Are Tied to Hands-On Lab Experience," by Paul Basken. The Chronicle article gives a summary of a study published by Tuajuanda C. Jordan et al. in the open-access journal mBio--and the Chronicle author, Basken, emphasizes the success of science students … Continue reading Is There a Lab in This Class? Beyond Humanities Seminars
I have a feeling I'm already behind the trend (with the high pace of digital culture, that's often the case), but for the past week or so I've been mulling over the newly emerged social app called What Would I Say. In short, the online application accesses a user's past activity on Facebook and generates … Continue reading What Would I Say: Social Media Poetics
I was recently prompted (for an application) to write "a statement articulating the role of the digital arts, media, and technology for informing and positioning traditional liberal arts disciplines for success in the 21st century." I didn't have such a statement on hand, and spent several days working on it. Over the past few years, I've written … Continue reading Digital Culture and Liberal Arts
Today, I officially launched phase one of this project: the Omeka archive (constellation) of texts, hosted by the University of Connecticut Scholars’ Collaborative. View it by clicking on that link, or read more about it and future goals of the project on the development blog.
Several weeks ago, I was reading Lisa Spiro's contribution to Debates in the Digital Humanities, "'This Is Why We Fight': Defining the Values of the Digital Humanities," and thought she raised some great points for launching further discussion and reflecting on some DH values. I wondered what had come of her call to the wider DH … Continue reading DH Values Statement Planning
I've been reading Matthew L. Jockers's recent book, Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History (Urbana, IL: U of Illinois P, 2013), and I find it to be a compelling example of asking and exploring significant questions in digital humanities. One thing that Jockers mentioned--and my reaction to it--has been on my mind for the last few days: … Continue reading “Lost Children” Texts: Returning to the Archive in the “Google Books Era”
Brandon W. Hawk 