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Evidence Shows How Digital Technologies Help Illuminate the Humanities
Yale graduate student Amanda Chemeche explains a digital mapping project she did for the "American Literature in the World" course.
Credit: Mara Lavitt / Yale News
Yale graduate student Amy Giuliano has designed virtual reality educational tours of some of Rome's most historic churches.
Incorporating digital technology into the exploration of literature is important to English and American studies professor Wai Chee Dimock. A student in her "American Literature in the World" course undertook a digital mapping project that pairs the reading of Teju Cole's novel "Open City" (which follows the narrator as he wanders around New York City) with an exploration of the history of Manhattan.
These two projects were among nearly a dozen described during this year's "Beyond Boundaries," an annual symposium that features the recent work of undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and faculty and staff members in the digital humanities.
"Digital humanities is crucial as a pedagogical tool," says Dimock, who endeavors to turn her classroom into a "hybrid classroom" that merges scientific technological innovation with the study of literature.
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