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What DH Means to Me: Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Honestly, perhaps the most-cited thing I’ve ever published is a chapter in Debates in the Digital Humanities, in which I quoted an old ProfHacker blog post, in which I offered a provisional definition of DH. The blog post is now 16 years old — old enough to drive! — but it’s a definition I’d mostly stand by today: “a nexus of fields within which scholars use computing technologies to investigate the kinds of questions that are traditional to the humanities, or, as is more true of my own work, who ask traditional kinds of humanities-oriented questions about computing technologies.” The…
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What DH Means to Me: Julian Chambliss
Digital Humanities, for me, is an interdisciplinary practice that aims to build a more holistic view of the world and the experiences that shape it. I often frame my work as public digital humanities because I see DH not simply as a set of tools, but as a critical framework that bolsters our ability to understand identity and community through researching, teaching, and practice. Through projects such as Comics as Data North America (CaDNA), or community-centered digital archives such as Voices of the Black Imaginary, I approach DH as a form of generative intervention. These projects ask how metadata, platforms,…
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What DH Means to Me: Max Evjen
What DH Means to Me: Max Evjen I learned about Digital Humanities when I was working as Performance and Digital Engagement Specialist at the MSU Museum (2015-2019), and increasingly I’ve seen how Digital Humanities happens in the museum context while I’ve been involved by presenting at Museum Computer Network Conferences and volunteering for that organization. When someone is using a digital tool to analyze collections, or make them more accessible through digital means I see that as digital humanities. Projects such as the Pink Art project at Williams College Museum of Art or the Open API at the Art Institute…
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What DH Means to Me: Matt Handelman
I am associate professor of German, core faculty in the Digital Humanities, Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in LiLaC, and Interim Chair of Digital Humanities. This might sound like a strange combination of interests, but it goes to the heart of what DH means to me. I started my undergraduate majors in mathematics and German literature with little sense that the two subjects had anything in common. However, as my studies in both continued (and as I encountered more mathematical theories named after Gauss, Riemann, Hausdorff, Weierstraß, etc.), I became more and more convinced of the overlaps between German culture…
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What DH Means to Me: Yuri Cantrell
My journey into digital humanities came from a love of technology, working with software and hardware, that eventually led me into the humanities and scholarship. I began working on immersive projects, serious games for training and VR simulations, and soon transitioned into higher education from studio work. The environment provided a wide range of uses for digital tools, and I discovered the various ways faculty were leveraging technology to enrich their research and instruction.
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What DH Means to Me: Dani Willcutt
Digital Humanities (DH) has come to mean a lot to me. In 2018 – which is when my introduction to DH occurred – it was a graduate certificate that I thought would make an interesting addition to my curriculum vitae. When I made the decision to join the Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate at MSU, I had no idea that it was going to completely change my career trajectory. I had never even considered myself a technical person (heck, I still use a paper planner). By the time I was halfway through my first year as a Cultural Heritage Informatics (CHI)…
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What DH Means to Me: Natalie Phillips
What I love most about DH is how its inclusivity and emphasis on community engagement has urged me to grow, expanding my work in cognitive studies of literature and eighteenth-century history of mind into art exhibits on Creativity in the Time of Covid-19 that champion disability justice and accessibility.
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What DH Means To Me: Steve Rachman
I have been working with Digital Humanities for more than twenty-five years and it meanings have shifted over that time, but I think the constants have lay in its usefulness for thinking about literature, reaching out to new communities, and creating new forms of access and scholarship. My first encounter with this “thing” called or would come to be called Digital Humanities.
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What DH Means to Me: Kate Birdsall
DH Core Faculty, WRAC Dept, describes what Digital Hummanties means to her within her scholarship.
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What DH Means to Me: Amanda Tickner
Digital Humanities as a discipline often expands collaborative activity into humanities disciplines that traditionally have been focused on solo work, and I think this is valuable.