Itinerant Entrepreneurs: #bigger6, Digital Humanities Pedagogy & Minimal Computing

Publication Date

9-1-2024

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Studies in Romanticism

Volume

63

Issue

3

DOI

10.1353/srm.2024.a943148

First Page

369

Last Page

389

Abstract

This article offers insight into the creation of a project-based graduate seminar that relied on collaboration, play, student agency, and practice to understand the powerful Bigger 6 Global Romanticism movement. By deploying Digital Humanities pedagogy and minimal computing, these first-generation students at a minority-serving institution began to understand that the literary voices heralding the Industrial Revolution and mechanization of print culture were immigrant, non-white, or female. The culminating digital project, “The Bengal Annual: A Digital Exploration of Non-Canonical British Romantic Literature,” explores what can be accomplished in a single semester as “itinerant entrepreneurs” of Digital Humanities.

Keywords

Bigger 6, Book history, Digital Humanities pedagogy, Global Romanticism, Minimal computing, periodical studies

Department

English and Comparative Literature

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