This talk will draw on Ryan Cordell's experiences teaching digital-humanities-inflected courses at both a liberal arts college and a research university. He will reflect on the reasons undergraduates often do not share their instructors' fascination with defining or theorizing digital humanities qua digital humanities.

Rather than dwelling on such debates, Cordell will contend that digital humanities instructors should embrace undergraduate disinterest in the subject as an aid to curricular incursion. The workshop will help participants develop strategies for effectively introducing digital methods as routine aspects of scholarly practice.

Ryan Cordell is assistant professor of English at Northeastern University and core founding faculty member in the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks. His scholarship focuses on convergences among literary, periodical, and religious culture in antebellum American mass media.

For additional information, please click here: https://www.si.umich.edu/events/201403/digital-pedagogy-series-ryan-cordell