Workshop on Digital Pedagogy and Medieval and Renaissance Studies

This workshop will introduce graduate students to digital and computational methodologies for the classroom. We will discuss: course conceptualization, pedagogical motivations for DH in the classroom, syllabus organization, assignment design, and DH assignment evaluation. Gross Hall is located near the corner of Science Drive and Towerview. See a map here: https://maps.duke.edu/?focus=203 (Construction is blocking the main entrance, but signs are posted for the pedestrian detour. The room is on the third floor.) Dr. Astrid Giugni (a former Duke PhD in English) works on early modern English literature with a particular focus on the prose and poetry of John Milton and on the political and nonconformist writings of the English Civil Wars and Interregnum. Her work engages with forms of rationality, ethics, and politics. She is particularly interested in the ethics of rational action. Dr. Giugni has taught in the English Department and the Information Science + Studies program at Duke. She works on the theory and ethics of the use of large scale databases in humanistic research and pedagogy. Her theoretical framework is informed by Ludwing Wittgenstein, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Michael Polanyi, as well as by Daniel Kahneman's account of decision making and reasoning processes. Astrid Giugni is also the faculty coordinator for the Rhodes Fellowship in the Computational Humanities, supported by the Rhodes Information Initiative at Duke, and she helps to organize the humanities projects at Data+.