Translating Hispaniola to the Digital Realm

Abstract

Kaiama Glover and Maja Horn, both professors at Barnard College, developed and implemented a team-taught course that brought Dominican and Haitian studies into dialogue. On the one hand, this experimental course provided a template for bringing Francophone and Spanish-speaking Caribbean histories into conversation. At the same time, teaching Haiti and the Dominican Republic in one class occasioned an opportunity for students to critically assess both nations in the larger context of transnational and diasporic formations. Their methods unite techniques of digital humanities with transnational pedagogy.