Never Let a Book Go

This interdisciplinary course focuses on a slow reading act, training students to closely read a hard copy, annotate the text through online software, and produce their digital projects via COVE, a digital humanities tool. Through close reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s dystopian novel, Never Let Me Go (2005), and completing various DH (digital humanities) assignments, students critically reconsider if prescribed biases wrongly dichotomize humanities and technology and actively investigate if we readers can regain our reading agency in our cyborg daily life. Furthermore, by conducting their own DH book projects with COVE, students l how slow reading and digital practices can work together to create a book’s afterlives.