Contents

Introduction

Digital Humanities: The Expanded Field | Lauren F. Klein and Matthew K. Gold

Part 1. Histories and Futures of the Digital Humanities

1. The Emergence of the Digital Humanities (as the Network Is Everting) | Steven E. Jones

2. The “Whole Game”: Digital Humanities at Community Colleges | Anne B. McGrail

3. What’s Next: The Radical, Unrealized Potential of Digital Humanities | Miriam Posner

4. Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities | Kim Gallon

5. QueerOS: A User’s Manual | Fiona Barnett, Zach Blas, Micha Cárdenas, Jacob Gaboury, Jessica Marie Johnson, and Margaret Rhee

Blog Posts and Short Essays

6. Father Busa’s Female Punch Card Operatives | Melissa Terras and Julianne Nyhan

7. On the Origin of “Hack” and “Yack” | Bethany Nowviskie

8. Reflections on a Movement: #transformDH, Growing Up | Moya Bailey, Anne Cong-Huyen, Alexis Lothian, and Amanda Phillips

Part 2. Digital Humanities and Its Methods

9. Blunt Instrumentalism: On Tools and Methods | Dennis Tenen

10. Putting the Human Back into the Digital Humanities: Feminism, Generosity, and Mess | Elizabeth Losh, Jacqueline Wernimont, Laura Wexler, and Hong-An Wu

11. Mid-Sized Digital Pedagogy | Paul Fyfe

12. Re: Search and Close Reading | Michael Hancher

13. Why We Must Read the Code: The Science Wars, Episode IV | Mark C. Marino

14. Where Is Methodology in Digital Humanities? | Tanya E. Clement

Blog Posts and Short Essays

15. Resistance in the Materials | Bethany Nowviskie

16. Interview with Ernesto Oroza | Alex Gil

17. Digital Humanities Knowledge: Reflections on the Introductory Graduate Syllabus | Scott Selisker

Part 3. Digital Humanities and Its Practices

18. Alien Reading: Text Mining, Language Standardization, and the Humanities | Jeffrey M. Binder

19. My Old Sweethearts: On Digitization and the Future of the Print Record | Andrew Stauffer

20. Argument, Evidence, and the Limits of Digital Literary Studies | David L. Hoover

21. Pedagogies of Race: Digital Humanities in the Age of Ferguson | Amy E. Earhart and Toniesha L. Taylor

Blog Posts and Short Essays

22. Here and There: Creating DH Community | Miriam Posner

23. The Sympathetic Research Imagination: Digital Humanities and the Liberal Arts | Rachel Sagner Buurma and Anna Tione Levine

24. Lessons on Public Humanities from the Civic Sphere | Wendy F. Hsu

Part 4. Digital Humanities and the Disciplines

25. The Differences between Digital Humanities and Digital History | Stephen Robertson

26. Digital History’s Perpetual Future Tense | Cameron Blevins

27. Collections and/of Data: Art History and the Art Museum in the DH Mode | Matthew Battles and Michael Maizels

28. Archaeology, the Digital Humanities, and the “Big Tent” | Ethan Watrall

29. Navigating the Global Digital Humanities: Insights from Black Feminism | Roopika Risam

Blog Posts and Short Essays

30. Between Knowledge and Metaknowledge: Shifting Disciplinary Borders in Digital Humanities and Library and Information Studies | Jonathan Senchyne

31. “Black Printers” on White Cards: Information Architecture in the Data Structures of the Early American Book Trades | Molly O’Hagan Hardy

32. Public, First | Sheila A. Brennan

Part 5. Digital Humanities and Its Critics

33. Are Digital Humanists Utopian? | Brian Greenspan

34. Ecological Entanglements of DH | Margaret Linley

35. Toward a Cultural Critique of Digital Humanities | Domenico Fiormonte

36. How Not to Teach Digital Humanities | Ryan Cordell

37. Dropping the Digital | Jentery Sayers

Blog Posts and Short Essays

38. The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities | Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Richard Grusin, Patrick Jagoda, and Rita Raley

39. Difficult Thinking about the Digital Humanities | Mark Sample

40. The Humane Digital | Timothy Burke

41. Hold on Loosely, or Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft on the Web | Ted Underwood

Part 6. Forum: Text Analysis at Scale

42. Introduction | Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein

43. Humane Computation | Stephen Ramsay

44. Distant Reading and Recent Intellectual History | Ted Underwood

45. The Ground Truth of DH Text Mining | Tanya E. Clement

46. Why I Dig: Feminist Approaches to Text Analysis | Lisa Marie Rhody

47. More Scale, More Questions: Observations from Sociology | Tressie McMillan Cottom

48. Do Digital Humanists Need to Understand Algorithms? | Benjamin M. Schmidt

49. Messy Data and Faulty Tools | Joanna Swafford

50. N + 1: A Plea for Cross-Domain Data in the Digital Humanities | Alan Liu

Series Introduction and Editors’ Note | Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein

Contributors

Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016