THE MARION L. BRITTAIN FELLOWS PROGRAM

Digital Pedagogy

The LCC's continuing seminar in digital pedagogy examines the significance of digital media for rethinking research and teaching. The seminar explores the practical application of courseware technologies and digital media to curriculum development. Brittain Fellows demonstrate class projects employing class management software, asynchronous and synchronous communication, multimedia resources, and website design.

The seminar also investigates the challenges posed to literary studies by digital infrastructures and considers the changes taking place in the practice and organization of higher education. Brittain Fellows explore the representational power and literary and expressive uses of new digital forms and consider ways in which these new forms may call on humanists to reconfigure their critical practice.

Seminar participants have discussed a number of readings:

  • Hayles. Writing Machines
  • Hayles. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics
  • Bolter and Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media
  • Aarseth, Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature
  • Joyce, Othermindedness
  • McGann, Radiant Textuality