Contents

INTRODUCTION

The Digital Humanities Moment | Matthew K. Gold

PART I

Defining the Digital Humanities

1: What Is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments? | Matthew Kirschenbaum

2: The Humanities, Done Digitally | Kathleen Fitzpatrick

3: “This Is Why We Fight”: Defining the Values of the Digital Humanities | Lisa Spiro

4: Beyond the Big Tent | Patrik Svensson

BLOG POSTS

The Digital Humanities Situation | Rafael C. Alvarado

Where’s the Beef? Does Digital Humanities Have to Answer Questions? | Tom Scheinfeldt

Why Digital Humanities Is “Nice” | Tom Scheinfeldt

An Interview with Brett Bobley | Michael Gavin and Kathleen Marie Smith

Day of DH: Defining the Digital Humanities

PART II

Theorizing the Digital Humanities

5: Developing Things: Notes toward an Epistemology of Building in the Digital Humanities | Stephen Ramsay and Geoffrey Rockwell

6: Humanistic Theory and Digital Scholarship | Johanna Drucker

7: This Digital Humanities Which Is Not One | Jamie “Skye” Bianco

8: A Telescope for the Mind? | Willard McCarty

BLOG POSTS

Sunset for Ideology, Sunrise for Methodology? | Tom Scheinfeldt

Has Critical Theory Run Out of Time for Data-Driven Scholarship? | Gary Hall

There Are No Digital Humanities | Gary Hall

PART III

Critiquing the Digital Humanities

9: Why Are the Digital Humanities So White? or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation | Tara McPherson

10: Hacktivism and the Humanities: Programming Protest in the Era of the Digital University | Elizabeth Losh

11: Unseen and Unremarked On: Don DeLillo and the Failure of the Digital Humanities | Mark L. Sample

12: Disability, Universal Design, and the Digital Humanities | George H. Williams

13: The Digital Humanities and Its Users | Charlie Edwards

BLOG POSTS

Digital Humanities Triumphant? | William Pannapacker

What Do Girls Dig? | Bethany Nowviskie

The Turtlenecked Hairshirt | Ian Bogost

Eternal September of the Digital Humanities | Bethany Nowviskie

PART IV

Practicing the Digital Humanities

14: Canons, Close Reading, and the Evolution of Method | Matthew Wilkens

15: Electronic Errata: Digital Publishing, Open Review, and the Futures of Correction | Paul Fyfe

16: The Function of Digital Humanities Centers at the Present Time | Neil Fraistat

17: Time, Labor, and “Alternate Careers” in Digital Humanities Knowledge Work | Julia Flanders

18: Can Information Be Unfettered? Race and the New Digital Humanities Canon | Amy E. Earhart

BLOG POSTS

The Social Contract of Scholarly Publishing | Daniel J. Cohen

Introducing Digital Humanities Now | Daniel J. Cohen

Text: A Massively Addressable Object | Michael Witmore

The Ancestral Text | Michael Witmore

PART V

Teaching the Digital Humanities

19: Digital Humanities and the “Ugly Stepchildren” of American Higher Education | Luke Waltzer

20: Graduate Education and the Ethics of the Digital Humanities | Alexander Reid

21: Should Liberal Arts Campuses Do Digital Humanities? Process and Products in the Small College World | Bryan Alexander and Rebecca Frost Davis

22: Where’s the Pedagogy? The Role of Teaching and Learning in the Digital Humanities | Stephen Brier

BLOG POSTS

Visualizing Millions of Words | Mills Kelly

What’s Wrong with Writing Essays | Mark L. Sample

Looking for Whitman: A Grand, Aggregated Experiment | Matthew K. Gold and Jim Groom

The Public Course Blog: The Required Reading We Write Ourselves for the Course That Never Ends | Trevor Owens

PART VI

Envisioning the Future of the Digital Humanities

23: Digital Humanities As/Is a Tactical Term | Matthew Kirschenbaum

24: The Digital Humanities or a Digital Humanism | Dave Parry

25: The Resistance to Digital Humanities | David Greetham

26: Beyond Metrics: Community Authorization and Open Peer Review | Kathleen Fitzpatrick

27: Trending: The Promises and the Challenges of Big Social Data | Lev Manovich

28: Humanities 2.0: Promise, Perils, Predictions | Cathy N. Davidson

29: Where Is Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities? | Alan Liu

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTRIBUTORS

Chapter 1: What Is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments? | Matthew Kirschenbaum