“What DH Means to Me” is a regular feature in the Digital Humanities Newsletters. Members of the DH community across MSU campus share how they “do DH” in their own practice.
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.
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.
DH Core Faculty, WRAC Dept, describes what Digital Hummanties means to her within her scholarship.
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.
DH as a discipline and as a program at MSU is as productive as it is because it is now comfortable with being in a constant state of emergence, of coming into being.
As a graduate student, Digital Humanities has meant new avenues for intellectual exploration, opportunities to develop as an instructor, and a sense of community that connected me to people across the university.