“Computers in English Class, Circa 1974”

“Digital humanities projects have come into their own in recent years, their rise fueled in part by grants from NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities. But in the 1970s a computer scientist still seemed like an unlikely pedagogical ally for a humanities professor.” An early experiment in digital pedagogy, created by a literature prof and a famous computer scientist, used #hypertext to engage college students with poetry–and offered a vision of the future that we’re living out now.