Course Description

How do digital and physical spaces intersect, interface, collide, and conflict with one another? This hybrid course will combine the elements of seminars and methodology in order to explore recent developments in digital humanities mapping and composition in order to analyze how digital tools can assist in our conceptualization of lived space. Using works placed within a diasporic context, in which authors are explicitly working across borders, students will learn how to employ mapping software to develop projects that analyze cultural flows across nations and continents. Building on the question of mapping, we will develop strategies to engage with the variety of stories that come out of transnational contexts in order to create podcasts and research projects that analyze cultural hybridity and nationality.

The first half of the course will be devoted to tools that help us visualize space and time in conversation with the experiences of several diasporic communities. The second half of the course will develop our story-telling capacities in relation to transnational lives.