The field of Digital humanities has existed from the invention of modern computing. Yet digital humanities scholarship and teaching struggle to attract faculty buy-in and institutional support at many universities. Where digital humanities programs do exist, they often remain siloed, isolated from potentially high-yield STEM partners. The AI revolution has created, however, a new urgency for a digitally-inflected humanities education at all levels. From general education through graduate education, as well as within STEM fields, digital humanities can help meet AI challenges to critical skill sets and independent thinking. In this roundtable, faculty presenters will share their teaching experience with the digital humanities. With appropriate permissions, they will showcase select student projects. A broad ranging Q&A will invite the audience to articulate how the digital humanities can help navigate AI. We invite attendees to identify opportunities, as well as obstacles in encouraging the “digital turn” in humanities education within their universities, and to share their own teaching experiences. Implicit is the idea that Digital Humanities instruction teaches digital information literacy, and is critical to navigating the ongoing AI revolution.

Presenters

• Mara Kozelsky mkozelsky@southalabama.edu, University of South Alabama
• John Halbrooks jvhalbrooks@southalabama.edu, University of South Alabama
• David Messenger davidamessenger@southalabama.edu, University of South Alabama
• Becky McLaughlin bmclaugh@southalabama.edu, University of South Alabama