1st Edition

Introduction to Digital Humanities Enhancing Scholarship with the Use of Technology

By Kathryn C. Wymer Copyright 2021
106 Pages
by Routledge

106 Pages
by Routledge

106 Pages
by Routledge

Introduction to Digital Humanities is designed for researchers, teachers, and learners in humanities subject areas who wish to align their work with the field of digital humanities. Many institutions are encouraging digital approaches to the humanities, and this book offers guidance for students and scholars wishing to make that move by reflecting on why and when digital humanities tools might... Read more

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Reasons to engage with the digital humanities

Chapter 2: Dealing with digital ephemerality

Chapter 3: Possibilities and limitations of digital tools

Chapter 4: Working with text

Chapter 5: Working with images and visualizations

Chapter 6: Working with performances

Chapter 7: Expanding your project’s reach

Chapter 8: Making space and time for digital humanities projects

Further reading

Bibliography

Biography

Kathryn C. Wymer is Professor of English and Digital Humanities Lab Coordinator at North Carolina Central University. She has served on the Executive Board of the Digital Humanities Collaborative of North Carolina and as DH Fellow and Liaison between NCCU and Duke University’s John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. Her work on digital humanities has appeared in The Digital Medievalist, Kairos, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Her most recent work focuses on digital humanities pedagogy. She received her PhD in English from UNC-Chapel Hill.

"Introduction to Digital Humanities provides a concise and accessible guide… the volume would be a valuable reference for humanities researchers and practitioners aiming to further enhance their work by digital approaches, for novices trying to embark on a DH project, as well as for teachers and students in humanities disciplines seeking to keep up with the DH trend in their instruction and learning."

--Yali Shi, School of Foreign Studies, Jiangnan University, China