Adeline M Koh
Stockton University, Literature, Faculty Member
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In The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa (1922/1965), Frederick Lugard, high commissioner of Northern Nigeria from 1809 to 1906, argued for a system in which the most important executive powers of a territory (military control,... more
In The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa (1922/1965), Frederick Lugard, high commissioner of Northern Nigeria from 1809 to 1906, argued for a system in which the most important executive powers of a territory (military control, taxation, and certain executive powers of governance) would be controlled by the British, but all other less central aspects would be left to local precolonial aristocracies who would maintain the outward appearance of control.
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In Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, Michel-Rolph Trouillot writes that by examining the process of history we can “discover the differential exercise of power that makes some narratives possible and silences... more
In Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, Michel-Rolph Trouillot writes that by examining the process of history we can “discover the differential exercise of power that makes some narratives possible and silences others.” Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities examines the process of history in the narrative of the digital humanities and deconstructs its history as a straight line from the beginnings of humanities computing. By discussing alternatives histories of the digital humanities that address queer gaming, feminist game studies praxis, Cold War military-industrial complex computation, the creation of the environmental humanities, monolingual discontent in DH, the hidden history of DH in English studies, radical media praxis, cultural studies and DH, indigenous futurities, Pacific Rim postcolonial DH, the issue of scale and DH, the radical, indigenous, feminist histories of the digital database, and the possibilities for an antifascist DH, th...
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At every stage in the research cycle -- planning, researching, preserving, publishing, and distributing -- social media is being used by researchers and scholars to communicate, collaborate, promote their research, and debate. As scholars... more
At every stage in the research cycle -- planning, researching, preserving, publishing, and distributing -- social media is being used by researchers and scholars to communicate, collaborate, promote their research, and debate. As scholars increasingly move their work to the web, conversations that previously took place within campus walls are now open for the world to pitch in. The benefits of using social media in the academy have been cited, among myriad others, as democratization, widening participation, and engaging new audiences on a global level. But these rapid changes come with challenges: steep learning curves in new technologies for many, committing to public engagement, and embedding social media in everyday work flows. In this Research Without Borders event, hosted by Columbia University's Center for Digital Research and Scholarship's Scholarly Communication Program, panelists Adeline Koh, Roopika Risam, Joshua Drew, and Laura Czerniewicz discuss how social media is changing the way researchers and scholars communicate with each other, on their campuses, and with the public.
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In this essay, simultaneously given as a keynote address for ILIADS.org 2015, I ask: why do we use more active types of pedagogy to teach our students, and more traditional forms (lectures) to teach each other? I argue that the new... more
In this essay, simultaneously given as a keynote address for ILIADS.org 2015, I ask: why do we use more active types of pedagogy to teach our students, and more traditional forms (lectures) to teach each other? I argue that the new digital landscape along with increasing the accessibility of our classrooms demands that we restructure the way that we teach, and give some examples of this type of restructuring. I also asked my audience to participate in redesigning a traditional literary classroom exercise with the Internet in mind. Live links to all the resources can be found in the original article here: http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/journal/teaching-with-the-internet-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-google-in-my-classroom/
Research Interests: Psychology, Humanities Computing (Digital Humanities), Digital Humanities, Disability Studies, Critical Disability Studies, and 12 moreDigital Media, Critical Pedagogy, Social Justice, Pedagogy, Social Justice in Education, Digital Pedagogy, The Internet, Feminism and Social Justice, Hybrid Learning, Hybrid Pedagogy, E Learning, and Blended and Hybrid Learning
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Koh describes the launch and reactions to the DHThis experiment (DHThis.org), a platform that sources from users, rather than from a select group of editors.
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Research Interests: History, Cultural Studies, Humanities Computing (Digital Humanities), Digital Humanities, Nineteenth Century Studies, and 9 moreColonialism, Nineteenth Century British History and Culture, Anglophone Literature, Literary studies, Victorian culture, Historical Studies, Anglophone Studies, Post Colonialism, and Postcolonial Digital Humanities
Abstract Since Chinua Achebe's groundbreaking pronouncement that Conrad was 'a bloody racist'in 1979, scholars have taken Heart of Darkness as the definitive starting point for discussing... more
Abstract Since Chinua Achebe's groundbreaking pronouncement that Conrad was 'a bloody racist'in 1979, scholars have taken Heart of Darkness as the definitive starting point for discussing Conrad and race. In contrast, this article argues that a geographically comparative approach challenges this critical paradigm, given that Conrad was Polish, French and British in his lifetime, as well as both a colonised subject and a coloniser. These numerous identity shifts come together in Conrad's first novel, Almayer's Folly. While ...
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In 1968, Argentinean Filmmakers Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino first articulated the theory of a" Third Cinema"-a revolutionary genre of cinema that would counter oppression on a global scale. Intended to be a"... more
In 1968, Argentinean Filmmakers Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino first articulated the theory of a" Third Cinema"-a revolutionary genre of cinema that would counter oppression on a global scale. Intended to be a" guerilla cinema" geared at contesting the overwhelming dominance of Western cinema, Solana and Getino distinguished" Third Cinema" from other forms of cinema, classifying these other types as First Cinema (commercial cinema epitomized by Hollywood) and Second Cinema." Third Cinema" was supposed to be a ...
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This essay explores the “social contract” of the digital humanities community. I argue that the social contract of the digital humanities is composed of two rules: 1) the notion of niceness or civility; and 2) the possession of technical... more
This essay explores the “social contract” of the digital humanities community. I argue that the social contract of the digital humanities is composed of two rules: 1) the notion of niceness or civility; and 2) the possession of technical knowledge, defined as knowledge of coding or computer programming. These rules are repeatedly raised within the public sphere of the digital humanities and are simultaneously contested and criticized. I claim that these rules and the social contract come from humanities computing, a field commonly described as the digital humanities’ sole predecessor. Humanities computing has historically differentiated itself from media and cultural studies, defining itself as a field that uses computational methods to address humanities research questions rather than exploring the impact of computation on culture and the humanities. I call for a movement that would go beyond this social contract by creating multiple genealogies for the digital humanities; by arguing that current conceptualizations of the digital humanities have not only developed from humanities computing but also include additional fields such as new media studies, postcolonial science and technology studies, and digital research on race, gender, class, and disability and their impact on cultures around the world.
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UMI, ProQuest ® Dissertations & Theses. The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. Learn more... ProQuest, Inventing Malayanness: Race, education and Englishness in colonial Malaya. by Koh,... more
UMI, ProQuest ® Dissertations & Theses. The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. Learn more... ProQuest, Inventing Malayanness: Race, education and Englishness in colonial Malaya. by Koh, Adeline ...
Research Interests: British Literature, History, Imperial History, Colonialism, Malaysia, and 15 moreAnthony Burgess, Gertrude Stein, Desire, Modernism, John Ashbery, Language Poetry, British Imperial and Colonial History, Joseph Conrad, Englishness, Denise Riley, George Oppen, Difficulty, Malaya, Heart of Darkness, and J H Prynne
This article provides a brief overview of an assortment of digital humanities projects that can be implemented in primarily undergraduate-focused institutions. Readers should be able to decide on what level they would like to start at,... more
This article provides a brief overview of an assortment of digital humanities projects that can be implemented in primarily undergraduate-focused institutions. Readers should be able to decide on what level they would like to start at, and build some possible ideas to “scaffold” the project, or stages of development and release for the project. At the end of the overview I offer an activity that can be easily applied by instructors interested in conducting digital humanities workshops at their institutions and an annotated list of additional resources. My goal is to provide an easy introduction for instructors to think through possibilities for incorporating the digital humanities within an undergraduate curriculum with either free or inexpensive digital tools.
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This article investigates racial melancholia as a comparative literary device in Claire de Duras's Ourika (1823) and Hugh Clifford's Saleh (1904). Racial melancholia refers to the process whereby racial self-knowledge becomes a... more
This article investigates racial melancholia as a comparative literary device in Claire de Duras's Ourika (1823) and Hugh Clifford's Saleh (1904). Racial melancholia refers to the process whereby racial self-knowledge becomes a site of psychological trauma for colonized subjects. In both novels, the European educations of Ourika, a West African girl, and Saleh, a Malay prince, lead to their development of racial melancholia and their eventual deaths. European education is blamed as the cause of this deadly melancholia. ...
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"I am often asked about the digital humanities and how it can update, make relevant, and provide funding for many a beleaguered humanities department. Some faculty at underfunded institutions imagine DH is going to revitalize their... more
"I am often asked about the digital humanities and how it can update, make relevant, and provide funding for many a beleaguered humanities department. Some faculty at underfunded institutions imagine DH is going to revitalize their discipline — it’s going to magically interest undergraduates, give faculty research funding, and exponentially increase enrollment. Well, the reality is this: what has until recently been commonly understood as real “Digital Humanities” is already belated and is not going to save humanities departments from ever bigger budget cuts and potential dissolution. If you want to save humanities departments, champion the new wave of digital humanities: one which has humanistic questions at its core."
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This is the tenth interview in a series, Digital Challenges to Academic Publishing, by Adeline Koh. Each article in this series features an interview with an academic publisher, press or journal editor on how their organization is... more
This is the tenth interview in a series, Digital Challenges to Academic Publishing, by Adeline Koh. Each article in this series features an interview with an academic publisher, press or journal editor on how their organization is changing in response to the digital world. The series has featured interviews with Duke University Press, Anvil Academic, NYU Press, MIT Press and the Penn State University Press.