Readings

READINGS


Scholars Program – Recommended Reading List

Bailey, Moya. “#transform(ing)DH Writing and Research: An Autoethnography of Digital Humanities and Feminist Ethics.” Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 2, 2015. 

Bawden, David Bawden and Lyn Robinson. "The dark side of information: overload, anxiety and other paradoxes and pathologies." Journal of Information Science, vol. 35, issue 2, Nov. 2008.

Brennan, Sheila. “Public, First.” Debates in the Digital Humanities. U of Minnesota P.

Brooks, Tisha, Elizabeth Cali, Howard Rambsy II and Lora Smallman. “Building an African American Literary Studies Dataset: A Collaborative and Technological Process.” CLA Journal

Vol. 59, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE: Digital Humanities (MARCH 2016), pp. 269-278

Brown, Susan, et al. “Published yet never done: The Tension Between Projection and Completion in Digital Humanities Research.” Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 2, 2009. 

Christen, Kimberly. “On Not Looking: Ethics and Access in the Digital Humanities.” March 18, 2014.

Earhart, Amy. “Can Information Be Unfettered?: Race and the New Digital Humanities Canon.”Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016. U of Minnesota P, 2016. 

Evans, Elizabeth F. and Matthew Wilkens. “Nation, Ethnicity, and the Geography of British Fiction, 1880-1940.” Journal of Cultural Analytics (2018).

Farmer, Ashley.  “Archiving While Black.” Chronicle of Higher Education.  July 22, 2018.  

Gallon, Kim. “Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities.” Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016. U of Minnesota P, 2016.  

Gil, Alex. “The User, the Learner and the Machines We Make.” May 21, 2015.

Gil, Alex and Élika Ortega. “Global Outlooks in Digital Humanities: Multilingual Practices and Minimal Computing.” Doing Digital Humanities. (eds) Richard Lane, Raymond Siemens, and Constance Crompton. London/NY: Routledge, 2016.

Hsu, Wendy. “Lessons on Public Humanities from the Civic Sphere.” Debates in the Digital Humanities. U of Minnesota P.

Klein, Lauren. “The Image of Absence: Archival Silence, Data Visualization, and James Hemings.” American Literature 85.4 (December 2013): 661-688.

Knight, Kim Brillante. “Making Space: Feminist DH and a Room of One’s Own,” Feb. 18, 2017. 

Lopez, Lori Kido and Jackie Land. Critical Race and Digital Studies Syllabus Vol. 1. Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies, 2019.

Morgan, Paige. "Delivering on the Deliverables." Digital Humanities: 2018, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Conference, 24-30 June 2018, Mexico City, Mexico. Conference paper.

Piper, Andrew. “Novel Devotions: Conversional Reading, Computational Modeling, and the Modern Novel.” New Literary History (2015)

Rambsy, Howard. “African American Scholars and the Margins of DH.” PMLA, vol. 135: 1 Jan. 2020. Special Topic “Varieties of Digital Humanities.”

Risam, Roopika. “Beyond the Margins: Intersectionality and the Digital Humanities.” Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 2, 2015. 

Rose, Mary Z. “Why and How to Create Digital Special Collections.” CLA Journal Vol. 59, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE: Digital Humanities (MARCH 2016), pp. 259-268

Sayers, Jentrey. “Minimal Definitions.” Oct. 2, 2016.

Smith, Martha Nell. “Electronic Scholarly Editing.”A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. 

So, Richard Jean, Hoyt Long and Yuancheng Zhu."Race, Writing and Computation: Racial Difference and the US Novel, 1880-2000,"Journal of Cultural Analytics, 11 Jan. 2019.

So, Richard Jean and Edwin Roland. “Race and Distant Reading.” PMLA, vol. 135: 1 Jan. 2020. Special Topic “Varieties of Digital Humanities.”

Underwood, Ted. “Theorizing Research Practices We Forgot to Theorize Twenty Years Ago.” Representations (2014).

Williams, George H. “Disability, Universal Design and the Digital Humanities.”Debates in the Digital Humanities. U of Minnesota P.   

Williams, Patrick. "The Machine Stops: Critical Orientations to Our Information Apparatus." Critical Approaches to Credit-Bearing Information Literacy Courses, edited by Angela Pashia and Jessica Critten, ACRL Press, 2019, pp. 213-230.

Other Resources

KU Libraries Research Data Management modules

Research Data MANTRA (University of Edinburgh)

DataONE Education Modules

Data Ab Initio (blog with lots of good easy-to-read info)

Digital Humanities Quarterly

Digital Research Tools (DiRT)

The International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA)

Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities