• Stephen H. Gregg

Bath Spa University

We do a disservice to our students if we do not introduce them to digital humanities approaches from the very first year of their university degree. Why, and how this might be accomplished, will be the purpose of my talk. It will be partly reflective, partly practical and partly polemical, aiming to use digital literary studies as a test case to catalyse and connect discussions about how we think about humanities students’ attitude to digital culture and technology, how we envision teaching digital humanities, how we embed it in our programmes, and even how we design projects to reach our students. As an alternative to the language of natives, immigrants, visitors and residents, I will offer the image of the spiral as a figure for the individual student’s learning experience, how digital humanist approaches might relate to degree programmes, departments and wider institutional structures, and how students relate to the digital world beyond the institution. 

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