APTPUO- Fall 2025- DCN 3300 A00

Location:

Main Campus

Session:

2025 Fall Semester Trimestre dautomne

Faculty:

Facult des arts / Faculty of Arts

Unit:

DHN Digital Cultures / Cultures numriquesPT

Course Title:

Special Topics in Digital Cultures: Literature in Motion

Course Code:

DCN 3300

Section:

A00

Course Description:

Course subtitle: Literature in Motion

In this course students will learn to use digital methods and tools for multilingual text analysis and to track the circulation and reception of literary texts across cultures and digital platforms. Students will develops foundational and technical skills for working with large datasets including curation analysis and visualisation with the goal of developing a digital publication that engages with critical ideas surrounding dissemination and engagement with literature. This will include principles for data management textual encoding and digital publishing.

Posting limited to:

Professeur temps partiel postdoctoral/ Postdoctoral Part-Time Professor

Date Posted:

June 04 2025

Applications must be received BEFORE:

July 07 2025

Expected Enrolment:

45

Approval date:

June 04 2025

Number of credits:

3

Work Hours:

39

Course type:

C

Posting type:

Rgulier / Regular

Language of instruction:

Anglais English

Competence in second language:

Passive

Course Schedule:

Lundi Monday 8:30-11:30 - -

Requirements:

PhD in translation studies or comparative literature with specialization in digital cultures/digital humanities methodologies. This course requires expertise working with digital tools and methods for multilingual text analysis and for tracking circulation and reception of texts across digital platforms. This includes experience preparing and managing large data sets for analysis (OpenRefine Git and GitHub) undertaking data analysis and visualization (with R (tidyverse ggplot2 Bibliometrix) Power BI Tableau and Gephi) and experience with textual encoding (NVivo HTML CSS ) and digital publishing (Wordpress and Drupal). Experience teaching these tools and leading digital research projects is required.

Teaching Format: In person

Additional Information and/or Comments:

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