Reframing Digital Humanities: Conversations with Digital Humanists

Study overview of the reviewed opening

Chambliss’s introduction connects digital humanities with community-centred historical work. Projects documenting and presenting African American experiences in Central Florida helped shape an approach concerned with public engagement as well as academic outcomes. The podcast became a way to explain that work and explore how digital humanities is understood.

The conversation series brings different scholars’ practices and values into view. The author explicitly avoids claiming an encyclopaedic definition of the field. Its limits arise from the selection of interviewees and the perspective through which the project developed.

The verified parts consider visions for digital humanities, identity, cultural reproduction and community. They connect digital methods with questions about whose histories are recovered, how knowledge becomes public and what work is done with communities. The introduction also discusses the care required in turning recorded conversation into readable text. This guide covers the introduction and contents, not a separate summary of every interview or a claim that all contributors agree.

Book contents

1. Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Public Digital Humanities
2. Rob Nelson and Making Digital Scholarship
3. Sharon Leon and Digital Pathways
4. Kathryn Tomasek and Encoding Digital Humanities
5. Maryemma Graham and the Black Imagination
6. Hilary Green and Transformative Digital History
7. Dhanashree Thorat and a Postcolonial Digital Humanities
8. Roopika Risam and New Digital Worlds
9. Amy Derogatis and the Sound of Religion
10. Brooks Hefner and Circulating American Magazines
11. Robert Cassanello and a Digital Public History
12. Laurie Taylor and Cultivating Caribbean Knowledge
13. Connie L. Lester and Finding Regional History
14. Consortium for Critical Diversity in a Digital Age Research (CEDAR) and a Community-Centric Digital Humanities

Questions for study

The following prompts are Academic Master’s editorial material.

• How can a public history project shape a digital humanities practice?
• What are the limits of defining a field through selected conversations?
• Why should an interview’s speaker remain visible in interpretation?

Sources and coverage

Introduction read in full (PDF pages 15–18); title, licence and complete part and interview contents checked.

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