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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction: The Digital Humanities, Moment to Moment by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein
  6. Part I. Openings and Interventions
    1. 1. Toward a Political Economy of Digital Humanities by Matthew N. Hannah
    2. 2. All the Work You Do Not See: Labor, Digitizers, and the Foundations of Digital Humanities by Astrid J. Smith and Bridget Whearty
    3. 3. Right-to-Left (RTL) Text: Digital Humanists Plus Half a Billion Users by Masoud Ghorbaninejad, Nathan P. Gibson, and David Joseph Wrisley
    4. 4. Relation-Oriented AI: Why Indigenous Protocols Matter for the Digital Humanities by Michelle Lee Brown, Hēmi Whaanga, and Jason Edward Lewis
    5. 5. A U.S. Latinx Digital Humanities Manifesto by Gabriela Baeza Ventura, María Eugenia Cotera, Linda García Merchant, Lorena Gauthereau, and Carolina Villarroel
  7. Part II. Theories and Approaches
    1. 6. The Body Is Not (Only) a Metaphor: Rethinking Embodiment in DH by Harmony Bench and Kate Elswit
    2. 7. The Queer Gap in Cultural Analytics by Kent K. Chang
    3. 8. The Feminist Data Manifest-NO: An Introduction and Four Reflections by Tonia Sutherland, Marika Cifor, T. L. Cowan, Jas Rault, and Patricia Garcia
    4. 9. Black Is Not the Absence of Light: Restoring Black Visibility and Liberation to Digital Humanities by Nishani Frazier, Christy Hyman, and Hilary N. Green
    5. 10. Digital Humanities in the Deepfake Era by Abraham Gibson
    6. 11. Operationalizing Surveillance Studies in the Digital Humanities by Christina Boyles, Andrew Boyles Petersen, and Arun Jacob
  8. Part III. Disciplines and Institutions
    1. 12. A Voice Interrupts: Digital Humanities as a Tool to Hear Black Life by Alison Martin
    2. 13. Addressing an Emergency: The “Pragmatic Tilt” Required of Scholarship, Data, and Design by the Climate Crisis by Jo Guldi
    3. 14. Digital Art History as Disciplinary Practice by Emily Pugh
    4. 15. Building and Sustaining Africana Digital Humanities at HBCUs by Rico Devara Chapman
    5. 16. A Call to Research Action: Transnational Solidarity for Digital Humanists by Olivia Quintanilla and Jeanelle Horcasitas
    6. 17. Game Studies, Endgame? by Anastasia Salter and Mel Stanfill
  9. Part IV. Pedagogies and Practices
    1. 18. The Challenges and Possibilities of Social Media Data: New Directions in Literary Studies and the Digital Humanities by Melanie Walsh
    2. 19. Language Is Not a Default Setting: Countering DH’s English Problem by Quinn Dombrowski and Patrick J. Burns
    3. 20. Librarians’ Illegible Labor: Toward a Documentary Practice of Digital Humanities by Spencer D. C. Keralis, Rafia Mirza, and Maura Seale
    4. 21. Reframing the Conversation: Digital Humanists, Disabilities, and Accessibility by Megan R. Brett, Jessica Marie Otis, and Mills Kelly
    5. 22. From Precedents to Collective Action: Realities and Recommendations for Digital Dissertations in History by Zoe LeBlanc, Celeste Tường Vy Sharpe, and Jeri Wieringa
    6. 23. Critique Is the Steam: Reorienting Critical Digital Humanities across Disciplines by James Malazita
  10. Part V. Forum: #UnsilencedPast by Kaiama L. Glover
    1. 24. Being Undisciplined: Black Womanhood in Digital Spaces, a conversation with Marlene L. Daut and Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel
    2. 25. How This Helps Us Get Free: Telling Black Stories through Technology, a conversation with Kim Gallon and Marisa Parham
    3. 26. “Blackness” in France: Taking Up Mediatized Space, a conversation with Maboula Soumahoro and Mame-Fatou Niang
    4. 27. The Power to Create: Building Alternative (Digital) Worlds, a conversation with Martha S. Jones and Jessica Marie Johnson
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. Figure Descriptions
  13. Contributors

Contributors

Gabriela Baeza Ventura is associate professor of Spanish at the University of Houston, executive editor at Arte Público Press, and co-director of the U.S. Latino Digital Humanities Center (USLDH).

Harmony Bench is associate professor in the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University. She is author of Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common (Minnesota, 2020) and collaborator with Kate Elswit on Dunham’s Data: Katherine Dunham and Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry.

Christina Boyles is assistant professor of culturally engaged digital humanities at Michigan State University. She is the director of the Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico and cofounder of SurvDH.

Megan R. Brett is a digital and public historian. She was the digital history associate at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University from 2014 to 2022.

Michelle Lee Brown is assistant professor of Indigenous knowledge, data sovereignty, and decolonization at Washington State University.

Patrick J. Burns is associate research scholar for digital projects at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World Library.

Kent K. Chang is a PhD student in the School of Information and Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) at the University of California, Berkeley.

Rico Devara Chapman is professor of history, assistant dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, and director of the humanities PhD program at Clark Atlanta University. He is author of Student Resistance to Apartheid at the University of Fort Hare: Freedom Now, a Degree Tomorrow.

Marika Cifor is assistant professor in the Information School and adjunct faculty member in the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She is author of Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (Minnesota, 2022).

María Eugenia Cotera is associate professor in the Mexican American and Latino Studies department at the University of Texas. She is author of Native Speakers: Ella Cara Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita González and the Poetics of Culture.

T. L. Cowan is assistant professor of media studies (digital media cultures) in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media (UTSC) and the Faculty of Information (iSchool) at the University of Toronto. With Jas Rault, T.L. is co-director of the Cabaret Commons and the Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory (DREC) and coauthor of Heavy Processing.

Marlene L. Daut is professor of French and African American studies at Yale University. She is author of Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism and Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789–1865.

Quinn Dombrowski is academic technology specialist in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages and in the library at Stanford University. They are author of Drupal for Humanists and Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolatur: Confessions of the University of Chicago.

Kate Elswit is professor of performance and technology and head of digital research at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. She is author of Watching Weimar Dance and Theatre & Dance, and collaborates with Harmony Bench on Dunham’s Data: Katherine Dunham and Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry and Visceral Histories, Visual Arguments: Dance-Based Approaches to Data.

Nishani Frazier is associate professor of American studies and history at University of Kansas. She is author of Harambee City: The Congress of Racial Equality in Cleveland and the Rise of Black Power Populism.

Kim Gallon is associate professor of Africana studies at Brown University. She is author of Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press.

Patricia Garcia is assistant professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan.

Linda García Merchant is public humanities data librarian at the University of Houston Libraries.

Lorena Gauthereau is digital programs manager for the U.S. Latino Digital Humanities Center (USLDH)/Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage at the University of Houston.

Masoud Ghorbaninejad works at a software company and is a digital humanities consultant at several universities.

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

Nathan P. Gibson is a researcher in Jewish–Christian–Muslim relations and Middle Eastern studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich.

Kaiama L. Glover is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French and Africana Studies and faculty director of the Digital Humanities Center at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is author of A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being and Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon.

Matthew K. Gold is associate professor of English and digital humanities at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), where he serves as advisor to the provost for Digital Initiatives and director of the GC Digital Scholarship Lab. He is coeditor of the Debates in Digital Humanities series at the University of Minnesota Press.

Hilary N. Green is the James B. Duke Professor of Africana Studies at Davidson College. She is author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865–1890.

Jo Guldi is associate professor of history at Southern Methodist University. She is author of The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights and Roads to Power: Britain Invents the Infrastructure State and coauthor of The History Manifesto.

Matthew N. Hannah is assistant professor of digital humanities in the School of Information Studies at Purdue University Libraries.

Jeanelle Horcasitas is a technical writer at DigitalOcean.

Christy Hyman is assistant professor of human geography and African American studies at Mississippi State University.

Arun Jacob is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto.

Jessica Marie Johnson is assistant professor in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University and a fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is author of Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World.

Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, professor of history, and a professor at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. She is author of Vanguard, Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America; Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women; and All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830–1900.

Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel is associate professor of romance studies at Duke University. She is author of Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire.

Mills Kelly is professor of history at George Mason University and director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. He is author of Teaching History in the Digital Age and Without Remorse: Czech National Socialism in Late Habsburg Austria.

Spencer D. C. Keralis is an independent scholar.

Lauren F. Klein is Winship Distinguished Research Professor and associate professor in the departments of English and quantitative theory and methods and director of the Digital Humanities Lab at Emory University. She is author of An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States (Minnesota, 2020), coauthor of Data Feminism, and coeditor of the Debates in Digital Humanities series at the University of Minnesota Press.

Zoe LeBlanc is assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Jason Edward Lewis is University Research Chair in Computational Media and the Indigenous Future Imaginary and professor of computation arts at Concordia University. He is coauthor of Against Reduction: Designing a Human Future with Machines and coeditor of Educational, Psychological, and Behavioral Considerations in Niche Online Communities.

James Malazita is assistant professor of science and technology studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Alison Martin is assistant professor at Dartmouth College.

Rafia Mirza is digital scholarship librarian at Southern Methodist University.

Mame-Fatou Niang is associate professor of French and Francophone studies at Carnegie Mellon University. She is author of Identités Françaises.

Jessica Marie Otis is assistant professor of history and director of public projects at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

Marisa Parham is professor of English and digital studies, and the director of African-American Digital and Experimental Humanities (AADHum) at the University of Maryland. She is author of Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture and coeditor of Theorizing Glissant: Sites and Citations.

Andrew Boyles Petersen is a digital asset librarian at Esri.

Emily Pugh is principal research specialist for digital art history at the Getty Research Institute. She is author of Architecture, Politics, and Identity in Divided Berlin.

Olivia Quintanilla is professor of ethnic studies at MiraCosta Community College.

Jas Rault is assistant professor of media studies in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media at the University of Toronto Scarborough and the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. They are the author of Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In and, with T. L. Cowan, Heavy Processing.

Anastasia Salter is director of graduate programs and Texts and Technology for the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Central Florida and coauthor of A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy and Adventure Games: Playing the Outsider.

Maura Seale is history librarian at the University of Michigan. She is coeditor of Creating Space for All Learners: Exploring Equitable and Inclusive Pedagogies and The Politics of Theory in the Practice of Critical Librarianship.

Celeste Tường Vy Sharpe is assistant professor of history at Normandale Community College in Bloomington, Minnesota.

Astrid J. Smith is a rare book and special collections digitization specialist with Stanford University Libraries’ digital production group.

Maboula Soumahoro is associate professor in the English department of the University of Tours. She is author of Le Triangle et l’Hexagone, réflexions sur une identité noire, translated by Kaiama L. Glover as Black Is the Journey, Africana the Name.

Mel Stanfill is associate professor in the Texts and Technology Program and the Department of English at the University of Central Florida. Stanfill is author of Exploiting Fandom: How the Media Industry Seeks to Manipulate Fans and coauthor of A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy (with Anastasia Salter).

Tonia Sutherland is assistant professor in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California Los Angeles.

Carolina Villarroel is Brown Foundation Director of Research of the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Program and co-director of the U.S. Latino Digital Humanities Center (USLDH) at the University of Houston.

Melanie Walsh is assistant teaching professor in the Information School at the University of Washington. She is author of Introduction to Cultural Analytics & Python, a free online programming textbook for humanities scholars and students.

Hēmi Whaanga is professor and head of school for Te Pūtahi-a-Toi (School of Māori Art, Knowledge and Education) at Massey University.

Bridget Whearty is assistant professor of English at Binghamton University.

Jeri Wieringa is assistant professor and director of the REL Digital Lab in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama.

David Joseph Wrisley is professor of digital humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi.

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