Digital Pedagogy and the Book: Tools, Methods, and Projects (DHSI 2026)

Description

This course will help faculty, staff, and instructional technologists conceptualize, design, and explore approaches to teaching digital book history and digital publishing. The course will provide readings on the history of the book and the book after the digital turn, and together we will discuss ways to immerse students in archival, editorial, and analytical practices regardless of their access to material books in special collections. Throughout the week, we will explore digital tools and platforms and consider how to best adapt them for a variety of educational contexts. We will collaborate on designing and scaffolding assignments, consider methods for assessment, and collectively build a repository of resources, links, and prompts. At the end of the week, participants will leave with a fully designed assignment or workshop plan and a better understanding of how to incorporate digital tools within their book history/digital publishing lessons and courses.

Instructor(s)

Andie Silva (she/her) is Professor of English and Digital Humanities at the City University of New York (York College and CUNY Graduate Center). Her research interests lie at the intersection of book history and print culture, popular culture, and digital humanities. In addition to articles and reviews in several journals, Silva is also author of The Brand of Print: Marketing Paratexts in the Early English Book Trade (Brill 2019) and co-editor, with Scott Schofield, of Digital Pedagogy in Early Modern Studies: Method and Praxis (Iter Press 2024) and Using Commonplace Books to Enrich Medieval and Renaissance Courses, with Sarah E. Parker (Arc Humanities Press 2023).