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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction. What Gets Counted: Computational Humanities under Revision | Lauren Tilton, David Mimno, and Jessica Marie Johnson
  6. Part I. Asking With
    1. 1. Computation and Hermeneutics: Why We Still Need Interpretation to Be by (Computational) Humanists | Hannah Ringler
    2. 2. Computing Criticism: Humanities Concepts and Digital Methods | Mark Algee-Hewitt
    3. 3. Born Literary Natural Language Processing | David Bamman
    4. 4. Computational Parallax as Humanistic Inquiry | Crystal Hall
    5. 5. Manufacturing Visual Continuity: Generative Methods in the Digital Humanities | Fabian Offert and Peter Bell
    6. 6. Maps as Data | Katherine McDonough
    7. 7. Fugitivities and Futures: Black Studies in the Digital Era | Crystal Nicole Eddins
  7. Part II. Asking About
    1. 8. Double and Triple Binds: The Barriers to Computational Ethnic Studies | Roopika Risam
    2. 9. Two Volumes: The Lessons of Time on the Cross | Benjamin M. Schmidt
    3. 10. Why Does Digital History Need Diachronic Semantic Search? | Barbara McGillivray, Federico Nanni, and Kaspar Beelen
    4. 11. Freedom on the Move and Ethical Challenges in the Digital History of Slavery | Vanessa M. Holden and Joshua D. Rothman
    5. 12. Of Coding and Quality: A Tale about Computational Humanities | Julia Damerow, Abraham Gibson, and Manfred D. Laubichler
    6. 13. The Future of Digital Humanities Research: Alone You May Go Faster, but Together You’ll Get Further | Marieke van Erp, Barbara McGillivray, and Tobias Blanke
    7. 14. Voices from the Server Room: Humanists in High-Performance Computing | Quinn Dombrowski, Tassie Gniady, David Kloster, Megan Meredith-Lobay, Jeffrey Tharsen, and Lee Zickel
    8. 15. A Technology of the Vernacular: Re-centering Innovation within the Humanities | Lisa Tagliaferri
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Contributors

Contributors

Mark Algee-Hewitt is associate professor of digital humanities and English at Stanford University, where he directs the Stanford Literary Lab. He is the author of The Afterlife of Aesthetics: Literature, the Sublime, and the Art of Criticism in the Long Eighteenth Century.

David Bamman is associate professor in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley.

Kaspar Beelen is technical lead, digital humanities, at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Peter Bell is professor of art history and digital humanities at Philipps-University Marburg and coeditor of the Computing Art Reader.

Tobias Blanke is university professor in AI and humanities at the University of Amsterdam and coauthor of Algorithmic Reason: The New Government of Self and Other.

Julia Damerow is lead scientific software engineer in the School of Complex Adaptive Systems at Arizona State University.

Quinn Dombrowski is a member of the digital humanities staff in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages and the library at Stanford University and has served as the copresident of the Association for Computers and the Humanities.

Crystal Nicole Eddins is associate professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution: Collective Action in the African Diaspora.

Abraham Gibson is assistant professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the author of Feral Animals in the American South: An Evolutionary History.

Tassie Gniady is systems application manager for the Monroe County Community Public School System.

Crystal Hall is associate professor of digital humanities and affiliated faculty in Italian studies at Bowdoin College. She is the author of Galileo’s Reading and codirector of GaLiLeO: Galileo’s Library and Letters Online.

Vanessa M. Holden is associate professor of history and African American and Africana studies at the University of Kentucky, where she directs the Central Kentucky Slavery Initiative. She is the author of Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community.

Jessica Marie Johnson is associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University and director of LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure. She is author of Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World.

David Kloster is systems programmer/analyst for UITS research technologies visualization and data lab’s IU3D lab at Indiana University, where he implements lidar scanners, drones, and high-performance computers to create digital twins of spaces and structures.

Manfred D. Laubichler is Global Futures Professor and President’s Professor of Theoretical Biology and History of Biology at Arizona State University, where he is also the director of the School of Complex Adaptive Systems and the Decision Theater.

Katherine McDonough is lecturer in digital humanities at Lancaster University and senior research fellow at the Alan Turing Institute.

Barbara McGillivray is lecturer in digital humanities and cultural computing at King’s College London. She is author of Methods in Latin Computational Linguistics and coauthor of Quantitative Historical Linguistics: A Corpus Framework and Applying Language Technology in Humanities Research: Design, Application, and the Underlying Logic.

Megan Meredith-Lobay is associate director of the research computing group at Simon Fraser University.

David Mimno is associate professor of information science at Cornell University.

Federico Nanni is senior research data scientist at the Alan Turing Institute, working as part of the research engineering group.

Fabian Offert is assistant professor of the history and theory of the digital humanities at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He serves as principal investigator for the international research project AI Forensics, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.

Hannah Ringler is assistant teaching professor of rhetoric and director of the Communication across the Curriculum program in the humanities department at Illinois Institute of Technology.

Roopika Risam is associate professor of film and media studies and of comparative literature in the digital humanities and social engagement cluster at Dartmouth College. She is author of New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy and coeditor of The Digital Black Atlantic (Minnesota, 2021), among other volumes.

Joshua D. Rothman is professor of history at the University of Alabama. He is a codirector of Freedom on the Move: A Database of Fugitives from American Slavery and the author of The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America.

Benjamin M. Schmidt is vice president of information at Nomic, an information cartography company in New York.

Lisa Tagliaferri is senior director of developer education at the software supply-chain startup Chainguard. An interdisciplinary researcher in tech and the humanities, Tagliaferri teaches digital humanities at Rutgers University and is the author of popular books and tutorials on Python, machine learning, cloud infrastructure, and software security.

Jeffrey Tharsen is associate technology director for digital studies at the University of Chicago, where he serves as technical domain expert for digital and computational approaches to humanistic inquiry. He is author of Chinese Euphonics: Phonetic Patterns, Phonorhetoric and Literary Artistry in Early Chinese Narrative Texts.

Lauren Tilton is E. Claiborne Robins Professor of Liberal Arts and Digital Humanities at the University of Richmond. She is coauthor of Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images.

Marieke van Erp is department head of the digital humanities research lab at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences’ humanities cluster.

Lee Zickel is applications manager for [U]Tech’s enterprise applications at Case Western Reserve University and has been in IT and the humanities for more than twenty years.

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