Acknowledgments

Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023 is a book that took shape over the course of more years than we had anticipated in the midst of a global pandemic. Our debts are many, and we are grateful to everyone who helped bring this volume into the world. First and foremost, we thank our contributors for their incredible patience, for their generous and rigorous peer-review readings of each other’s work, and for bearing with us through three intense rounds of revision over multiple years. We are grateful to you for sticking with us, and with this book, through so much.

We want to thank the incredible research assistants who did so much work on this project: Nicole Cote, Janelle Poe, Tuka Al-Sahlani, and Ian Anderson at the CUNY Graduate Center; and Victor Ultra Omni and Kaelyn McAdams at Emory University. We appreciate your time, your attention to detail, your camaraderie, and your professionalism as we worked with you on this volume. Thank you for all of your contributions.

We extend our thanks to our editors and colleagues at the University of Minnesota Press: Leah Pennywark, our fantastic editor, who has approached this book and the Debates in the Digital Humanities series as a whole with care, patience, and wisdom; Doug Armato, whose vision continues to inspire us; Anne Carter, who does so much to steward these volumes into existence; Terence Smyre, whose expertise with Manifold helps us make these volumes available online; and the staff of the University of Minnesota Press, including Susan Doerr, Eric Lundgren, Daniel Ochsner, Emily Hamilton, Heather Skinner, Maggie Sattler, Anne K. Wrenn, Jeff Moen, Rachel Moeller, and Michael Stoffel. Thank you for your work and your partnership.

Matt would like to thank his valued colleagues at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center: Steve Brier, Luke Waltzer, Lisa Rhody, Louise Lennihan, George Otte, Joan Richardson, Bill Kelly, Maura Smale, David Olan, Josh Brumberg, Jason Nielsen, Elizabeth Macaulay, Kandice Chuh, Jeff Allred, Duncan Faherty, Kelly Josephs, Andie Silva, Robin Miller, Laurie Hurson, Boone Gorges, Krystyna Michael, Jojo Karlin, Stefano Morello, Patrick Smyth, Wendy Barrales, Miryam Nacimento, Filipa Calado, Rafa Davis Portela, Stephen Zweibel, Roxanne Shirazi, Andrew Dunn, Ann Fiddler, Andrew McKinney, and Kristin Hart. Thank you to my family—Danny, Jeanne, and Heather Gold—whose support grounds everything else. Deepest love and thanks to Liza, Felix, and Oliver for bearing with me and for bringing so much happiness into my life.

Lauren would like to thank the members of the departments of English and quantitative theory and methods for welcoming her to Emory University, especially her department chairs Ben Reiss (English) and Cliff Carrubba (QTM) and her colleagues in the digital humanities, Dan Sinykin and Ben Miller. She thanks Wayne Morse, Allen Tullos, Chase Lovellette, and Alexander Cors at the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, and Sarah McKee, at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, for supporting the DDH series. She would also like to recognize Dean Michael Elliott for his steadfast support of the digital humanities at Emory. To Greg, Loie, and Aurora on the family front: thank you for keeping me grounded during this long writing and editing process. Thank you to my parents, Diane and Francis Klein, and to my sister Amy Klein, who exhibit tireless support for my work. And to Kate McCandless, thank you for your love and care for our children, which is truly what allowed this book to come to be.