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Talking American Studies

Dedicated to highlighting currents of North American Studies in Germany.Also on spotify and itunes, or follow Talking American Studies on twitter/facebook/instagram!About the host/creator: I'm Verena Adamik, and I teach and research American Studies at the University of Potsdam. For my PhD project, I investigated the link between the United States' national narrative and utopianism by looking at fictional renditions of utopian communities (i.e. 'communes') in the nineteenth century. I am currently turning some of my findings into a book. Further research interests include horror fiction and African American writing, specifically sf, horror, and literary responses to White supremacist discourse. Because I miss going to seminars and lectures, I decided to just get scholars to spill their intellectual beans in this podcast.

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Digital Humanities with A. Dunst and D. Mischke

December 15, 2018 • Verena Adamik (and others) • Season 1 • Episode 1

Our very first episode features the two editors of the current special issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies on Digital Humanities. They are talking about the challenges and advantages of DH, bring up some of their favorite projects that merge computational methods and North American Studies, and even give some advice for complete beginners.
Listen in, and let me know what you think!

Featuring

Dr. Alexander Dunst: https://kw.uni-paderborn.de/anglistik-amerikanistik/dr-alexander-dunst/

Dr. Dennis Mischke https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/iaa-amlc/academic-staff/dr-dennis-mischke.html

Verena Adamik https://vadamik.wordpress.com/

Projects and Papers mentioned

ArcGIS (mapping tools): https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/about-arcgis/overview

Brennan, Timothy. “The Digital Humanities Bust,” The Chronicle of Higher Education. 2017. https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Digital-Humanities-Bust/241424

DARIAH Geobrowser: https://geobrowser.de.dariah.eu/

Google Maps (mapping tool): https://www.google.de/maps/

Hybrid Narrativity (research group on Graphic novels with Dr. Alexander Dunst): https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/graphic-literature/wp/?lang=en

Melville Electronic Library: https://mel.hofstra.edu/

Stanford Literary Lab: https://litlab.stanford.edu/

Thaller, Manfred. “Geleitwort.” Digital Humanities. Grundlagen und Technologien für die Praxis, by Susanne Kurz. Springer, 2016. vii – viii.

The Viral Texts Project: https://viraltexts.org/

Voyant (word cloud and concordance tool): https://voyant-tools.org/

Music Intro/Outro

Title: pine voc - coconut macaroon; Author: Stevia Sphere; Source: https://soundcloud.com/hissoperator/pine-voc-coconut-macaroon License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Royalty Free Open Music from https://starfrosch.com

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