English and Anglo-American Studies

The programme is structured around three main themes: - Introduction to the Digital Humanities. This part will discuss the definition and aims of the discipline, the history of Digital Humanities studies from its origins to the present day, and the ethical aspects involved. - Digital Literary Studies. The application of computer tools for the digitization of texts (from markup to digital editions) and for textual analysis (distant reading, stylometry, topic modelling, attributionism, word embedding) will be explored. - Computers and Creativity. The use of computers for artistic and literary creation will be examined, starting with the first experiments in combinatorial literature up to today's artificial intelligence systems.

Basic knowledge of text analysis techniques and literary criticism, as well as the fundamentals of digital technologies, such as the use of software for text processing and navigating online platforms.

- Johanna Drucker, The Digital Humanities Coursebook : Applied Concepts and Critical Approaches, 2nd Edition, Routledge, 2025 (available from 10th November) https://www.routledge.com/The-Digital-Humanities-Coursebook-Applied-Concepts-and-Critical-Approaches/Drucker-Albrezzi/p/book/9781003589792 (Exercises excluded) - Lev Manovich and Emanuele Arielli, Artificial Aesthetics: Generative AI, Art and Visual Media. Available at: https://manovich.net/index.php/projects/artificial-aesthetics- - Hannes Bajohr, Writing at a Distance: Notes on Authorship and Artificial Intelligence. Available at: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6x26r90b - Italo Calvino, Cybernetics and Ghosts. Available at: https://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/academics/SummerSchool/Dateien2011/Reading_Assignments/iuli_reader2.pdf - Daniel Raffini, Authorship and Hallucination in AI-Generated Literary text For more material and information subscribe the classroom: https://classroom.google.com/c/MjM1OTEzNzY3OTBa?cjc=lg2ezec7

Attendance is not mandatory, but recommended given the seminar nature of the course. For those who choose not to attend, it will still be possible to take the exams by studying the books in the bibliography.

Exam is oral.

Teaching will be delivered in presence