WGS.117 Queering Digital Humanities

HASS-H
Units: 3-0-9
Tuesdays 7-10pm

Explore emerging tools and techniques for knowledge production, artistic expression, and building community through the lens of Women’s and Gender Studies. Consider how marginalized populations have created, resisted, and utilized technologies to challenge systems of oppression and construct more just worlds both on and offline. Engaging interdisciplinary approaches to the study of human sexuality, this course introduces students to foundational debates at the intersection of feminism, queer theory, and digital humanities. Through hands-on activities, collaborative annotation, and independent research, we will experiment with innovative approaches to techniques such as virtual reality, gaming, cartography, archives, web design, robotics, social media, mind-mapping, etc. Reconceptualize gender, sexuality, and other categories of difference in light of new technologies reshaping our individual and collective lives.

Clara Montague