1st Edition

Hidden and Devalued Feminized Labour in the Digital Humanities On the Index Thomisticus Project 1954-67

By Julianne Nyhan Copyright 2023
254 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Hidden and Devalued Feminized Labour in the Digital Humanities examines the data-driven labour that underpinned the Index Thomisticus–a preeminent project of the incunabular digital humanities–and advanced the data-foundations of computing in the Humanities. Through oral history and archival research, Nyhan reveals a hidden history of the entanglements of gender in the intellectual and... Read more

Introduction; Chapter 1: On the histories of a history: the historical labour models of the Index Thomisticus (with contributions from Melissa Terras); Chapter 2: Hidden tasks, Hidden workers: keypunching the Index Thomisticus; Chapter 3: Situating the Index Thomisticus: views from the inside; Chapter 4. On the need for a "willingness to acknowledge mistakes" constructing the role of the keypunch operator; Chapter 5. On the making of the myth of the lone scholar: digital humanities as aetiology; Chapter 6. Conclusion: On the necessity of recovering the contributions of overlooked and lesser-known individuals to the history of computing in the Humanities

Biography

Julianne Nyhan is Professor of Humanities Data Science and Methodology at the Institut für Geschichte, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany and Professor of Digital Humanities at UCL, UK. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, she was formerly the Deputy- and Director of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (2018-2021) and Director of UCL’s MA/MSc in Digital Humanities (2017-2021). Her primary research interest is in the history of digital humanities, an area in which she has published widely.