Contents

Introduction: The Digital Humanities, Moment to Moment

Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein

Part I:

Openings and Interventions

1. Toward a Political Economy of Digital Humanities

Matthew N. Hannah

2. All the Work You Do Not See: Labor, Digitizers, and the Foundations of Digital Humanities

Astrid J. Smith and Bridget Whearty

3. Right-to-Left (RTL) Text: Digital Humanists Plus Half a Billion Users

Masoud Ghorbaninejad, Nathan P. Gibson, and David Joseph Wrisley

4. Relation-Oriented AI: Why Indigenous Protocols Matter for the Digital Humanities

Michelle Lee Brown, Hēmi Whaanga, and Jason Edward Lewis

5. A U.S. Latinx Digital Humanities Manifesto

Gabriela Baeza Ventura, María Eugenia Cotera, Linda García Merchant, Lorena Gauthereau, and Carolina Villarroel

Part II

Theories and Approaches

6. The Body Is Not (Only) a Metaphor: Rethinking Embodiment in DH

Harmony Bench and Kate Elswit

7. The Queer Gap in Cultural Analytics

Kent K. Chang

8. The Feminist Data Manifest-NO: An Introduction and Four Reflections

Tonia Sutherland, Marika Cifor, T. L. Cowan, Jas Rault, and Patricia Garcia

9. Black Is Not the Absence of Light: Restoring Black Visibility and Liberation to Digital Humanities

Nishani Frazier, Christy Hyman, and Hilary N. Green

10. Digital Humanities in the Deepfake Era

Abraham Gibson

11. Operationalizing Surveillance Studies in the Digital Humanities

Christina Boyles, Andrew Boyles Petersen, and Arun Jacob

Part III

Disciplines and Institutions

12. A Voice Interrupts: Digital Humanities as a Tool to Hear Black Life

Alison Martin

13. Addressing an Emergency: The “Pragmatic Tilt” Required of Scholarship, Data, and Design by the Climate Crisis

Jo Guldi

14. Digital Art History as Disciplinary Practice

Emily Pugh

15. Building and Sustaining Africana Digital Humanities at HBCUs

Rico Devara Chapman

16. A Call to Research Action: Transnational Solidarity for Digital Humanists

Olivia Quintanilla and Jeanelle Horcasitas

17. Game Studies, Endgame?

Anastasia Salter and Mel Stanfill

Part IV

Pedagogies and Practices

18. The Challenges and Possibilities of Social Media Data: New Directions in Literary Studies and the Digital Humanities

Melanie Walsh

19. Language Is Not a Default Setting: Countering DH’s English Problem

Quinn Dombrowski and Patrick J. Burns

20. Librarians’ Illegible Labor: Toward a Documentary Practice of Digital Humanities

Spencer D. C. Keralis, Rafia Mirza, and Maura Seale

21. Reframing the Conversation: Digital Humanists, Disabilities, and Accessibility

Megan R. Brett, Jessica Marie Otis, and Mills Kelly

22. From Precedents to Collective Action: Realities and Recommendations for Digital Dissertations in History

Zoe LeBlanc, Celeste Tường Vy Sharpe, and Jeri Wieringa

23. Critique Is the Steam: Reorienting Critical Digital Humanities across Disciplines

James Malazita

Part V

Forum: #UnsilencedPast

Kaiama L. Glover

24. Being Undisciplined: Black Womanhood in Digital Spaces

A Conversation with Marlene L. Daut and Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel

25. How This Helps Us Get Free: Telling Black Stories through Technology

A Conversation with Kim Gallon and Marisa Parham

26. “Blackness” in France: Taking Up Mediatized Space

A Conversation with Maboula Soumahoro and Mame-Fatou Niang

27. The Power to Create: Building Alternative (Digital) Worlds

A Conversation with Martha S. Jones and Jessica Marie Johnson

Acknowledgments

Figure Descriptions

Contributors