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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Series Title Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction | Gabriel Hankins, Anouk Lang, and Simon Appleford
  10. Part 1: Positions and Provocations
    1. 1. Covid, Care, and Community: Redesigning Graduate Education in a Pandemic | Katina L. Rogers
    2. 2. Useless (Digital) Humanities? | Alison Booth
    3. 3. The Futures of Digital Humanities Pedagogy in a Time of Crisis | Brandon Walsh
    4. 4. Executing the Crisis: The University beyond Austerity | Travis M. Bartley
  11. Part 2: Histories and Forms
    1. 5. Why Our Digital Humanities Program Died and What You Can Learn about Saving Yours | Donna Alfano Bussell and Tena L. Helton
    2. 6. Notes on Digital Groundhog Day | Manfred Thaller
    3. 7. Digital Futures for the Humanities in Latin America | Maria José Afanador-Llach and Germán Camilo Martínez Peñaloza
    4. 8. What versus How: Teaching Digital Humanities before and after Covid-19 | Stuart Dunn
    5. 9. Teaching Digital Humanities Online | Stephen Robertson
  12. Part 3: Pedagogical Implications
    1. 10. Digital Humanities and the Graduate Research Methods Class | Laura Estill
    2. 11. Bringing the Digital into the Graduate Classroom: Project-Based Deep Learning in the Digital Humanities | Cecily Raynor
    3. 12. Support, Space, and Strategy: Designing a Developmental Digital Humanities Infrastructure | Brady Krien
    4. 13. Graduate Assistantships in the Digital Humanities: Experiences from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media | Laura Crossley, Amanda E. Regan, and Joshua Casmir Catalano
    5. 14. More Than Marketable Skills: Digital Humanities as Creative Space | Kayla Shipp
  13. Part 4: Forum on Graduate Pathways
    1. 15. Rewriting Graduate Digital Futures through Mentorship and Multi-institutional Support | Olivia Quintanilla and Jeanelle Horcasitas
    2. 16. The Problem of Intradisciplinarity | Sean Weidman
    3. 17. Challenges of Collaboration: Pursuing Computational Research in a Humanities Graduate Program | Hoyeol Kim
    4. 18. Triple Consciousness: A Scatterling Lesotho Native on a PhD Journey in the American South | Sethunya Mokoko
    5. 19. Taking the Reins, Harnessing the Digital: Enabling and Supporting Public Scholarship in Graduate-Level Training | Sara Mohr and E. L. Meszaros
    6. 20. More Than a Watchword: Sustainability in Digital Humanities Graduate Studies | Maria K. Alberto
    7. 21. Academia Is a Dice Roll | Agnieszka Backman, Quinn Dombrowski, Sabrina T. Grimberg, and Melissa A. Hosek
    8. 22. On the Periphery: Decentering Graduate Pedagogy in Libraries and Digital Scholarship Centers | Alex Wermer-Colan
  14. Part 5: Infrastructures and Institutions
    1. 23. Graduate Students and Project Management: A Humanities Perspective | Natalia Ermolaev, Rebecca Munson, and Meredith Martin
    2. 24. Notes toward the Advantages of an Agile Digital Humanities Graduate Program | Heather Richards-Rissetto and Adrian S. Wisnicki
    3. 25. A Tale of Three Disciplines: Considering the (Digital) Future of the Mid-doc Fellowship in Graduate Programs | Erin Francisco Opalich, Daniel Gorman Jr., Madeline Ullrich, and Alexander J. Zawacki
    4. 26. Bridging the Gaps in and by Teaching: Transdisciplinary and Transpractical Approaches to Graduate Studies in the Digital Humanities at the University of Stuttgart | Gabriel Viehhauser, Malte Gäckle-Heckelen, Claus-Michael Schlesinger, and Peggy Bockwinkel
    5. 27. Soft Skills in Hard Places, or Is the Digital Future of Graduate Study in the Humanities outside of the University? | Jennifer Edmond, Vicky Garnett, and Toma Tasovac
    6. 28. Embracing Hybrid Infrastructures | Jacob D. Richter and Hannah Taylor
  15. Part 6: Disciplinary Contexts and Translations
    1. 29. The Life Aquatic: Training Digital Humanists in a School of Information Science | Ted Underwood
    2. 30. Computer Science Research and Digital Humanities Questions | Benjamin Charles Germain Lee
    3. 31. Realizing New Models of Historical Scholarship: Envisioning a Discipline-Based Digital History Doctoral Program | Joshua Casmir Catalano, Pamela E. Mack, and Douglas Seefeldt
    4. 32. Remediating Digital Humanities Graduate Training | Serenity Sutherland
  16. Afterword | Kenneth M. Price
  17. A Commemoration of Rebecca Munson | Natalia Ermolaev and Meredith Martin
  18. Contributors

Contributors

MARIA JOSÉ AFANADOR-LLACH is assistant professor of digital humanities in the School of Arts and Humanities at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. She is also a member of the editorial team of The Programming Historian en español.

MARIA K. ALBERTO is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Utah, where she is working on her dissertation on canons in popular culture.

SIMON APPLEFORD is associate professor of history at Creighton University and associate director of the Creighton Digital Humanities Initiative. He is author of Drawing Liberalism: Herblock’s Political Cartoons in Postwar America; coauthor of DevDH.org, an online resource for digital humanities project development; and project director of The Natural Face of North America.

AGNIESZKA BACKMAN earned her PhD in Scandinavian languages from Uppsala University with a dissertation titled “The Materiality of the Manuscript: Studies in Codex Holmiensis D 3, the Old Swedish Multitext Manuscript Fru Elins bok.” She has worked on the Norse Perception of the World project, helping develop a digital platform for onomastics research with interactive maps, Norse World.

TRAVIS M. BARTLEY is a PhD candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he researches critical digital infrastructure and language technology.

PEGGY BOCKWINKEL is a doctoral researcher at the University of Stuttgart Department of Digital Humanities. In her dissertation, she investigates how different quantities of deictic expressions affect literary texts.

ALISON BOOTH is Brown-Forman Professor of English and faculty director of the Library DH Center, University of Virginia, where she codirected the Graduate Digital Humanities Certificate from 2017 until 2023. Her database, Collective Biographies of Women, is based on her book How to Make It As a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present. Her other books include Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers’ Shrines and Countries.

DONNA ALFANO BUSSELL is professor and chair of the Department of English at the University of Illinois Springfield. As a scholar of medieval literature and liturgy, she has published and presented work on Barking Abbey, including a GIS map of the abbey. She is currently researching the liturgies of Mary Magdalene in medieval England.

JOSHUA CASMIR CATALANO is assistant professor of history at Clemson University and serves as coordinator of the public history program.

LAURA CROSSLEY is a history PhD candidate at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, specializing in digital history and Indigenous histories.

QUINN DOMBROWSKI supports non-English digital humanities as the academic technology specialist in the Library and the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages at Stanford University and serves as co–vice president of the Association for Computers and the Humanities.

STUART DUNN is professor of spatial humanities at King’s College London, where he is also head of the Humanities Cluster. He is author of A History of Place in the Digital Age and coeditor of The Routledge International Handbook of Research Methods in Digital Humanities.

JENNIFER EDMOND is professor in digital humanities at Trinity College Dublin, codirector of the Trinity Centre for Digital Humanities, director of the MPhil in Digital Humanities and Culture, and a funded investigator of the SFI ADAPT Centre.

NATALIA ERMOLAEV is executive director of the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University. She is co–principal investigator on New Languages for NLP: Building Linguistic Diversity to the Digital Humanities, an initiative funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and a collaboration with DARIAH-EU.

LAURA ESTILL is Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities and professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University. She is author of Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts and coeditor of Early Modern Studies after the Digital Turn, Early British Drama in Manuscript, and Digital Humanities Workshops: Lessons Learned.

MALTE GÄCKLE-HECKELEN earned a PhD from the Department of Digital Humanities of the University of Stuttgart and is a visual data manager at BurdaForward.

VICKY GARNETT has a PhD in sociolinguistics from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, where she is also based as the Training and Education Officer for DARIAH-EU.

DANIEL GORMAN JR. is a history PhD graduate of the University of Rochester, where he specialized in U.S. religion and culture. He has worked on digital projects that include The Hill Cumorah Legacy Project, Digitizing Rochester’s Religions, the William Blake Archive, Remembering WWI, and the Seward Family Digital Archive.

SABRINA T. GRIMBERG is a lecturer in the Spanish Language Program and coordinator of the Accelerated Spanish Language Program at Stanford University. Sabrina holds degrees in linguistics from Stanford University and linguistics, comparative literature, and classics from the University of Buenos Aires.

GABRIEL HANKINS is associate professor of English at Clemson University. He is series coeditor of Cambridge University’s Elements in Digital Literary Studies.

TENA L. HELTON is professor of English and interim associate vice chancellor for undergraduate education at the University of Illinois Springfield. As a scholar of early American literature and culture, she has published articles on African American, Native American, and Asian American literature, history, and film, as well as online teaching of American literature.

JEANELLE HORCASITAS is a Senior Regulatory Adherence Consultant at Delta Dental California. She received her PhD in literature/cultural studies from UC San Diego and her undergraduate degree in English from UC Los Angeles.

MELISSA A. HOSEK is a lecturer in Stanford University’s program for civic, liberal, and global education.

HOYEOL KIM received his PhD in English with a focus on computational literary studies from Texas A&M University. His articles “Sentiment Analysis: Limits and Progress of the Syuzhet Package and Its Lexicons” and “Victorian400: Colorizing Victorian Illustrations” were published by Digital Humanities Quarterly and the International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, respectively.

BRADY KRIEN is completing his PhD in English and is a graduate careers and fellowships adviser at the Graduate College, University of Iowa. His research combines environmental literature, digital humanities, and print and information culture.

ANOUK LANG is a senior lecturer in the Department of English and Scottish Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She is the editor of From Codex to Hypertext: Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century and coeditor of Patrick White Beyond the Grave: New Critical Perspectives.

BENJAMIN CHARLES GERMAIN LEE is assistant professor in the Information School at the University of Washington.

PAMELA E. MACK is emeritus professor at Clemson University, retired from the Department of History and Geography. She is author of Viewing the Earth: The Social Construction of the Landsat Satellite System.

MEREDITH MARTIN is professor of English at Princeton University, where she directs the Center for Digital Humanities. She is principal investigator on the Princeton Prosody Archive and author of The Rise and Fall of Meter: Poetry and English National Culture, 1860–1930.

GERMÁN CAMILO MARTÍNEZ PEÑALOZA is coordinator of the Banco de Archivos Digitales de Artes en Colombia and professor of digital humanities in the School of Arts and Humanities, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.

E. L. MESZAROS is a PhD candidate in the history of the exact sciences in antiquity at Brown University.

SARA MOHR is an Assyriologist and a digital humanist and digital scholarship librarian at Hamilton College.

SETHUNYA MOKOKO is completing his PhD in rhetoric, communication, and information design and is assistant director of the Writing Lab and Dean’s Advisory Council member at Clemson University.

REBECCA MUNSON was assistant director of interdisciplinary education at the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University. A commemoration of her life and contribution to digital humanities concludes this volume.

ERIN FRANCISCO OPALICH is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Rochester and assistant director of DEI Projects and Initiatives at SUNY Oneonta. Her dissertation focuses on the intersections of environmental and social justice in twentieth-century American fiction. Her ongoing digital humanities project is Food Apartheid ROC, an interactive digital mapping initiative that seeks to narrate and visually render the landscape of food access inequities across the city of Rochester, New York.

KENNETH M. PRICE is Hillegass University Professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and codirector of The Walt Whitman Archive, The Charles W. Chesnutt Archive, and the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. His latest study is Whitman in Washington: Becoming the National Poet in the Federal City.

OLIVIA QUINTANILLA is a Chamoru scholar, professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at MiraCosta College in Oceanside, California, and a Digital Humanities Research Institute Fellow.

CECILY RAYNOR is associate professor of Hispanic studies and digital humanities at McGill University. She is author of Latin American Literature at the Millennium: Local Lives, Global Spaces and coeditor of Digital Encounters: Envisioning Connectivity in Latin American Cultural Production.

AMANDA E. REGAN is assistant professor in the Department of History and Geography at Clemson University. She is co–project director and digital historian on Mapping the Gay Guides, an NEH-funded digital history project that seeks to map entries from historical LGBTQ guidebooks.

HEATHER RICHARDS-RISSETTO is associate professor of anthropology in the School of Global Integrative Studies and faculty fellow of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She has published on multisensory archaeology, 3D WebGIS, Virtual Reality, 3D data preservation and access, machine learning, and collaborative web-based archaeology.

JACOB D. RICHTER is a teaching assistant professor of writing at George Washington University. His research on composition pedagogy, writing in networked environments, digital rhetoric, and social media’s utility for education has been published in College Composition and Communication, Computers & Composition, Composition Forum, Convergence, and Prompt.

STEPHEN ROBERTSON is professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University, coeditor of the open-access online journal Current Research in Digital History, and author of the digital monograph Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935.

KATINA L. ROGERS is author of Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving in and beyond the Classroom and Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing. In 2021, she founded Inkcap Consulting to work with colleges and universities to design and implement creative, sustainable, and equitable structures for humanities education.

CLAUS-MICHAEL SCHLESINGER is a digital scholarship expert for the humanities at the University Library at Humboldt University Berlin.

DOUGLAS SEEFELDT is director of the digital history PhD program and associate professor of history at Clemson University, codirector of the William F. Cody Archive, and editor of the Cody Studies Digital Research Platform.

KAYLA SHIPP is digital humanities program manager for the Yale Digital Humanities Lab, where she designs and manages digital cultural heritage projects in collaboration with researchers, collections, and community partners.

SERENITY SUTHERLAND is associate professor of communication studies at SUNY Oswego. She is a member of the NHPRC and Mellon-funded Primary Source Cooperative, a publishing platform for digital editions, and editor of the Ellen Swallow Richards Papers. She copublished the digital humanities project Visualizing Women in Science at the American Philosophical Society.

TOMA TASOVAC is director of the Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities and president of the board of directors of DARIAH-EU. His areas of scholarly expertise include historical and electronic lexicography, data modeling, and digital editions.

HANNAH TAYLOR is faculty in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University. Her research focuses on digital activism and reproductive justice and has been featured or is forthcoming in College English, Peitho, and Women’s Studies in Communication.

MANFRED THALLER is professor emeritus of Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung (Humanities Computer Science) at the Universität zu Köln, Germany.

MADELINE ULLRICH is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. Her research explores television, contemporary female subjects, and audiences in relation to feminism, postfeminism, neoliberalism, and “quality” TV.

TED UNDERWOOD is professor of information sciences and English at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign. His most recent book is Distant Horizons: Digital Evidence and Literary Change.

GABRIEL VIEHHAUSER is professor of digital humanities at the University of Stuttgart. His main research interests encompass digital editions and digital text analysis.

BRANDON WALSH is head of student programs in the Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia Library. He serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy and is a regular instructor at Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching.

SEAN WEIDMAN is visiting assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. He has published in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Modernism/modernity, and English Literary History.

ALEX WERMER-COLAN is academic and research director at Temple University Libraries’ Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio. He is managing editor for The Programming Historian in English, and his writing has been published in Twentieth-Century Literature, The Yearbook of Comparative Literature, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, dh+lib, and The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy.

ADRIAN S. WISNICKI is associate professor of English and faculty fellow of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is a founding developer of Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom, lead developer of One More Voice, and director of Livingstone Online. He is the author of Fieldwork of Empire, 1840–1900: Intercultural Dynamics in the Production of British Expeditionary Literature.

ALEXANDER J. ZAWACKI is a lecturer in digital humanities and an imaging scientist at the University of Göttingen. His work employs multispectral imaging and statistical processing software to digitally recover damaged manuscripts and cultural heritage objects. His research focuses on ghosts, the supernatural, and hermeneutics in the Middle Ages.

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