Fourth Texas-Jalisco Conference in Education and Culture, University of North Texas Panel: New Frontiers for Research, Teaching and Learning: Digital Scholarship and Latin@ Archives/Nuevas Fuentes para Investigación, Enseñanza and Aprendizaje: Estudios Digitales y Archivos Latin@s

1. Border Trouble:
On the Frontiers of Digital Scholarship
Spencer D. C. Keralis
Director for Digital Scholarship, Research Associate Professor
@hauntologist |spencer.keralis@unt.edu
UNT‟s Digital Scholarship Co-Operative (DiSCo)
disco.unt.edu |@UNTDiSCo | disco@unt.edu
New Frontiers for Research, Teaching and Learning: Digital Scholarship and Latin@ Archives
Nuevas Fuentes para Investigación, Enseñanza and Aprendizaje: Estudios Digitales y Archivos Latin@s
IV Jalisco Texas Conference in Education and Culture, March 22, 2013, University of North Texas

2. Smithers, W. D. (Wilfred Dudley), 1895-1981.. U. S. - Mexico boundary from El Paso to Van
Horn, Texas. Map, Map, n.d.; digital image,
(http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth11949/ : accessed March 22, 2013),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting The Archives of the Big Bend, Alpine, Texas.

3. “institutional support for digital humanities by
administrators, foundations, and legislators can
work to conceal or compensate for reduced
support given to the traditional humanities, and as
such can contribute to the undermining of the
liberal arts in higher education.”
Richard Grusin
“The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities – Part 2”
http://www.c21uwm.com/2013/01/09/dark-side-of-the-digital-humanities-part-2/

4. The Center for Digital Research in the
Humanities (CDRH) – University of Nebraska

5. The Center for Digital Research in the
Humanities (CDRH) – University of Nebraska

6. The Dark Side of DH
Digital Humanities is:
• insufficiently diverse.
• suffers from “techno-utopianism” and “claims to be the solution for every
problem.”
• “a blind and vapid embrace of the digital”
• insists upon coding and gamification to the exclusion of more humanistic
practices.
• detache[d] from the rest of the humanities (regarding itself as not just “the
next big thing,” but “the only thing”).
• complicit with the neoliberal transformation of higher education; it
“capitulates to bureaucratic and technocratic logic”;
• support[ed by] comes administrators who see DH‟ers as successful
fundraisers and allies in the “creative destruction” of humanities education.
On „The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities‟ January 5, 2013, 11:14 am,
Chronicle of Higher Education
By William Pannapacker

7. Treaty of Velasco, Text, 1836; digital images, (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth31159/ :
accessed March 22, 2013), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History,
http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Star of the Republic Museum, Washington, Texas.

8. http://www.library.ubc.ca/chineseinbc/

11. UNT‟s Digital Scholarship Co-Operative (DiSCo)
disco.unt.edu |@UNTDiSCo | disco@unt.edu