Contents
The Digital Humanities Moment | Matthew K. Gold
Defining the Digital Humanities
1: What Is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments? | Matthew Kirschenbaum
2: The Humanities, Done Digitally | Kathleen Fitzpatrick
3: “This Is Why We Fight”: Defining the Values of the Digital Humanities | Lisa Spiro
4: Beyond the Big Tent | Patrik Svensson
BLOG POSTS
The Digital Humanities Situation | Rafael C. Alvarado
Where’s the Beef? Does Digital Humanities Have to Answer Questions? | Tom Scheinfeldt
Why Digital Humanities Is “Nice” | Tom Scheinfeldt
An Interview with Brett Bobley | Michael Gavin and Kathleen Marie Smith
Day of DH: Defining the Digital Humanities
Theorizing the Digital Humanities
6: Humanistic Theory and Digital Scholarship | Johanna Drucker
7: This Digital Humanities Which Is Not One | Jamie “Skye” Bianco
8: A Telescope for the Mind? | Willard McCarty
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Sunset for Ideology, Sunrise for Methodology? | Tom Scheinfeldt
Has Critical Theory Run Out of Time for Data-Driven Scholarship? | Gary Hall
There Are No Digital Humanities | Gary Hall
Critiquing the Digital Humanities
11: Unseen and Unremarked On: Don DeLillo and the Failure of the Digital Humanities | Mark L. Sample
12: Disability, Universal Design, and the Digital Humanities | George H. Williams
13: The Digital Humanities and Its Users | Charlie Edwards
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Digital Humanities Triumphant? | William Pannapacker
What Do Girls Dig? | Bethany Nowviskie
The Turtlenecked Hairshirt | Ian Bogost
Eternal September of the Digital Humanities | Bethany Nowviskie
Practicing the Digital Humanities
14: Canons, Close Reading, and the Evolution of Method | Matthew Wilkens
15: Electronic Errata: Digital Publishing, Open Review, and the Futures of Correction | Paul Fyfe
16: The Function of Digital Humanities Centers at the Present Time | Neil Fraistat
17: Time, Labor, and “Alternate Careers” in Digital Humanities Knowledge Work | Julia Flanders
18: Can Information Be Unfettered? Race and the New Digital Humanities Canon | Amy E. Earhart
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The Social Contract of Scholarly Publishing | Daniel J. Cohen
Introducing Digital Humanities Now | Daniel J. Cohen
Text: A Massively Addressable Object | Michael Witmore
The Ancestral Text | Michael Witmore
Teaching the Digital Humanities
19: Digital Humanities and the “Ugly Stepchildren” of American Higher Education | Luke Waltzer
20: Graduate Education and the Ethics of the Digital Humanities | Alexander Reid
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Visualizing Millions of Words | Mills Kelly
What’s Wrong with Writing Essays | Mark L. Sample
Looking for Whitman: A Grand, Aggregated Experiment | Matthew K. Gold and Jim Groom
Envisioning the Future of the Digital Humanities
23: Digital Humanities As/Is a Tactical Term | Matthew Kirschenbaum
24: The Digital Humanities or a Digital Humanism | Dave Parry
25: The Resistance to Digital Humanities | David Greetham
26: Beyond Metrics: Community Authorization and Open Peer Review | Kathleen Fitzpatrick
27: Trending: The Promises and the Challenges of Big Social Data | Lev Manovich
28: Humanities 2.0: Promise, Perils, Predictions | Cathy N. Davidson
29: Where Is Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities? | Alan Liu