Slides for a talk at the New England American Studies Association Spring Colloquium - "Professional Realities Inside and Outside the Academy" (May 3, 2014)

1. Professionalizing via
Digital Humanities
Roopika Risam
Salem State University
@roopikarisam

2. Defining Digital Humanities
• My definition:At the intersection of the
humanities and computing, digital humanities
combines the analytical work of the
humanities with digital technologies, tools,
and methodologies.

3. Snapshots of Digital Humanities
• Using computational technology to analyze
texts
• Engaging visualization tools in research
• Using mapping software or GIS to understand
literature or history

4. Snapshots of Digital Humanities
• Digitizing texts to create new archives and
theorize digital archival practices
• Using knowledge of culture and history to
understand digital objects and cultures
• Creating scholarship that pushes the
boundaries of print form

5. Will digital humanities save me?

6. No.

7. Will digital humanities kill
the humanities?

8. Seriously?

9. Digital Humanities and theTT

10. Digital Humanities and the JIL

11. DH Beyond theTT
RobertVega, “Graduate Student Alt-ac and Digital Humanities Jobs”
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/orgs/lacs/Students/Graduate-Students/
Career-Guides/Alt-ac.php

12. What can digital humanities
do for me?

13. Professionalization - Research
• The affordances of digital humanities
methods add dimensions to research that are
inaccessible without digital or computational
technology.

14. Professionalization -Teaching
• Digital humanities foregrounds
multimodality, an essential form of literacy
for our students.
• Bonus: Fun things.

15. Professionalization – Job Seeking
• Digital humanities enables us to envision
broad horizons for what we can “do” with
doctoral degrees.

16. Selected Resources
• Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld,
Todd Presner, Jeffrey Schnapp - Digital_Humanities
(MIT Press)
• Matthew K. Gold, ed. - Debates in the Digital
Humanities (University of Minnesota Press)
• MelissaTerras, Julianne Nyhan, and Edward
Vanhoutte, eds. - Defining Digital Humanities (Ashgate)
• #alt-academy: Alternative Academic Careers
(mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/alt-ac/)

17. Selected Resources
• DHCommons (dhcommons.org)
• Digital Humanities Now (digitalhumanitiesnow.org)
• Digital Humanities Quarterly (digitalhumanities.org/dhq)
• Hybrid Pedagogy (hybridpedagogy.com)
• Journal of Digital Humanities
(journalofdigitalhumanities.org)

18. Selected Resources
• Praxis Network (praxis-network.org)
• DH Answers (digitalhumanities.org/answers)
• Bamboo DIRT (dirt.projectbamboo.org)
• Centernet (digitalhumanities.org/centernet)
• THATCamp (thatcamp.org)