Volume VI Issue III July-September 2026

Name of Author : Dr. Deepika

Title of the paper : Beyond The Page: Reimagining Literature, Culture, and Knowledge through Digital Humanities

Abstract: The literary classroom today sits at the intersection of the printed page and the digital screen. Learners move fluidly between close reading, e-books, digital archives, podcasts, film, social media, and artificial intelligence, and this shift raises an urgent pedagogical question how can literature teaching respond to the digital learner without compromising humanistic interpretation This paper argues that Digital Humanities DH offers not a replacement for close reading but a complementary set of methods, tools, and critical dispositions that can deepen literary study. Drawing on classroom illustration, comparative method, and policy alignment with Indias National Education Policy 2020, the paper outlines a five-stage pedagogical model — Read, Explore, Analyse, Critique, Create — and considers the challenges of access, training, ethics, algorithmic bias, and information overload that accompany this shift. It concludes that the aim of Digital Humanities in literary education is not to make literature technological, but to make literary learning more inquiry-driven, inclusive, and critical.

Keywords : Digital Humanities, literary pedagogy, close reading, distant reading, digital archives, AI in education, NEP 2020

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Page No. : 35-42