Digitizing literature and textualizing the digital have been the key feature of today’s humane world that puts severe emphasis on the way to artificialize texts, literatures, figures and knowledge at large. With such case of emerging call for intelligence, one can only be more skeptical about the drastic change the digital sphere brought into the meaning and the geography of the texts, authors, and readers as it manipulates the truth turning it into something phantomatic. And yet, digital humanities tools proved to be somehow efficient when used to read literatures of the world by using distant reading strategy when searching for networks and scopes of texts than the close ones. Either way, the question remains whether digitalization of texts and its annexes can help worldling literatures or minoring them in different directions, in the sense that literatures circulate well outside their home making it reachable and domesticable. In addition, pandemics and online communities have disrupted the ordinarily physical human contact towards which significant efforts have been made to keep it digitized as possible, the fact that shapes our understanding and perception of virtualized literatures and its incorporated spaces, themes, and effects. The main concept behind this seminar is that rich data can provide a unique way of knowledge access about social and cultural change through the lens of literary production. It can provide us with much more insights than any other traditional method of storage. The main problem of digital archives is that, while it is relatively easy to collect large amounts of data, and yet making use of data is a completely different story. While we can easily store thousands of literary works, it is the analysis of these works that can be of benefit to knowledge synthesis and accumulation.

Potential subjects and areas of investigation for this panel include, but are not limited to:

• How can digital humanities shape our humane experiences of literature?
• Does it suggests/offers other avenues of interpretation?
• Can the digital sphere brought intelligence into the way we read and taste literature?
• Technical challenges of DH with non-anglophone and non-Latin material works.
• Postcolonial DH and World Literature.
• Critique of DH in Literary Studies.
• Evaluating digital scholarship in World Literature.
• Can we still maintain the same meaning and demarcations of geography of texts in how they affect their horizons.
• Does the digital sphere revisit the crossing, circulation and translation of literary texts?
• What are the new channels of worldling minor and marginalized literatures through the prism of digitalization and virtualizing of literatures.