{"id":84,"date":"2016-07-28T18:51:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T18:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mirzamperez.sites.grinnell.edu\/imperiodiseno\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2016-07-29T13:47:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T13:47:12","slug":"sobre-el-proyecto","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mirzamperez.sites.grinnell.edu\/imperiodiseno\/sobre-el-proyecto\/","title":{"rendered":"Proyecto \/ Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students in my 300 level senior seminar began the process of building a Designing Empire<\/em>\u00a0website through a series of\u00a0scaffolded\u00a0assignments that introduced them to various Digital Humanities tools.\u00a0 Beginning with an exercise in the interpretation of texts, students\u00a0 used NVivo\u00a0to compare and contrast word usage and\u00a0thematic\u00a0content in two\u00a0colonial texts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Next, using\u00a0TimeMapper.js, students\u00a0 plotted texts and artifacts pertinent to a chosen Spanish American colonial community and shared their presentations with the class. For the final project students chose a colonial city\u00a0as a subject for in-depth research, focusing on early modern visual and textual representations of the city.\u00a0 They curated these images and\u00a0texts to create an\u00a0Omeka\u00a0exhibit that\u00a0 displayed both the texts produced by the colonizers, including but not limited to images,\u00a0written\u00a0texts, and spatial representations of the imperial cities, as well as indigenous products that present alternative conceptions of time and space.\u00a0By the end of the semester, the class presented their Omeka\u00a0website revealing original and competing analyses of\u00a0representations of early modern Spanish Atlantic cities.<\/p>\n

Designing Empire<\/em>\u00a0allows us the possibility of\u00a0visualizing\u00a0and mapping the early modern world. It invites scholars\u00a0to understand the complexities of this moment in time, promoting an awareness of how this is not a world that is gathering dust in the archive, but continues to be very much alive and a part of our world.\u00a0 Mapping and visualizing the early modern Spanish Empire beyond the printed page uncovers\u00a0important\u00a0resonances\u00a0in the social, cultural, economic, and political experiences of the people and nations of its former colonies.<\/p>\n

While there has been a great deal of interest in recreating and visualizing empire in English-language studies, it has witnessed comparative neglect in early modern Spanish studies.\u00a0 I believe it was and will continue to be important for my students to understand that Spanish is not only about language proficiency and canonical reading lists, but also about and contributing to a vibrant research community.\u00a0 Planting this seed among my students contributes to this field, and to their own intellectual development.\u00a0 A project such as this require students do sophisticated literary analysis in a second or possibly third language, not just learn to conjugate\u00a0verbs.\u00a0 In an advanced literature seminar comprised of majors, most of whom will go to professional schools or graduate programs, it is necessary that they become familiar with the future direction of the field.\u00a0\u00a0Students\u00a0 have\u00a0gained the knowledge of how these digital humanities tools work and how to articulate their arguments using them and the New Media Literacies they promote.<\/p>\n

I expect this website will not not only serve as an on-going project in upper level Spanish classes to introduce students to the use of DH tools in the study of early modern texts and places, but will also serve as a resource for other researchers and scholars beyond Grinnell College.<\/p>\n

Mirzam C. P\u00e9rez<\/p>\n

Associate Professor of Spanish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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