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Teaching with Periodicals and Recovered Primary Sources U.S. Latinx Digital Humanities

 

U.S Hispanic Periodicals, recovered archival primary sources preserved and interpreted in digital projects and print publications, provide a range of analytical, reading, and writing skills to students. Periodicals empower them to participate in scholarly conversations by enriching course content and facilitating interdisciplinary approaches to subject matters. 

 

As a recovery scholar, I am committed to learning from narratives and ensuring they do not disappear entirely. My cultural, linguistic, and interdisciplinary teaching rethinks assumptions about the past, and bears witness to underserved cultural and historical contributions, making them accessible in an informed, contextualized learning experience. 

 

I build on the Recovery’s practice of custodianship by examining the collection items as belonging first and foremost to the Sociedades Hispanas Confederadas and related communities. [i]  In honoring the workers' resistance to fascism, my recovery of antifascist print culture and activism is an exercise of collective knowledge, and my research is a site of resistance to elitist discourses. [ii] 

 

[i] On engaged methodology, see Gautherau, Lorena. “Elaborating a (Digital) Methodology of the Oppressed in US Latina/o Digital Humanities.” Maryland Institute for the Technology in the Humanities, Sept. 28, 2018; Bailey, Moya Z. “all the Digital Humanities Are White, All the Nerds Are Men, but Some of Us are Brave.” Journal of Digital Humanities, 1.1. (2011), n.p.

[ii] See Gautherau, Lorena. “Elaborating a (Digital) Methodology of the Oppressed in US Latina/o Digital Humanities.” Maryland Institute for the Technology in the Humanities, Sept. 28, 2018.

 

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Teaching Outcomes

                                                                                                               

In their professional development, students are assessed for soft and hard skills. For example, but not limited to, students practice how to:

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  • Become aware of context and genre.

  • Recall precise content and information.

  • Find relevant evidence to support an argument.

  • Examine primary sources by stating how they enrich communal, professional, and research outcomes.

  • Productively integrate multiple perspectives.

  • Increase the capacity to think otherwise.

 

  • Tailor strategies for best cultural and language practices.

  • Apply various communicative strategies, including the possibilities of social media and digital humanities.

  • Develop Interpersonal communication with precise and rich use of language and grammar.

  • Improve reading and writing skills in diverse usages of the target language.

  • Analyze cultural products and perspectives and apply findings to solve communal, professional, and research problems.

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  • Think critically about the constructiveness of knowledge.

  • Discuss current issues with historically and culturally informed perspectives.

  • Seek new approaches and apply findings in community, professional, and research projects.

  • Apply research and theories to improve future outcomes. 

  • Propose best cultural and language practices and competencies to engage with others in communal, professional, and research contexts. 

  • Recover, make available, contextualize, and examine the US Hispanic past and present.

  • Ask for help when not fully understanding the implications of a research topic.

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