Index

Contents

INTRODUCTION
Digital Humanities: The Expanded Field | Lauren F. Klein 
and Matthew K. Gold ix

PART I
Histories and Futures of the Digital Humanities
   1 The Emergence of the Digital Humanities (as the Network
     Is Everting) | Steven E. Jones   3
   2 The “Whole Game”: Digital Humanities at Community
     Colleges | Anne B. McGrail   16
   3 Whats Next: The Radical, Unrealized Potential of Digital
     Humanities | Miriam Posner   32
   4 Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities | Kim Gallon   42
   5 QueerOS: A User’s Manual | Fiona Barnett, Zach Bias, 
      micha cârdenas, Jacob Gaboury, Jessica Marie Johnson, 
      and Margaret Rhee   50
     BLOG POSTS AND SHORT ESSAYS
   6 Father Busa’s Female Punch Card Operatives | Melissa Terras
     and Julianne Nyhan   60
   7 On the Origin of “Hack” and “Yack” | Bethany Nowviskie   66
   8 Reflections on a Movement: #transformDH, Growing Up | Moya 
     Bailey, Anne Cong-Huyen, Alexis Lothian, and Amanda Phillips   71

PART II
Digital Humanities and Its Methods
   9 Blunt Instrumentalism: On Tools and Methods | Dennis Tenen   83
   10 Putting the Human Back into the Digital Humanities: Feminism, 
     Generosity, and Mess | Elizabeth Losh, Jacqueline Wernimont,
     Laura Wexler, and Hong-An Wu   92
   11 Mid-Sized Digital Pedagogy | Paul Fyfe   104
   12 Re: Search and Close Reading | Michael Hancher   118
   13 Why We Must Read the Code: The Science Wars, Episode IV
     | Mark C. Marino   139
   14 Where Is Methodology in Digital Humanities? | Tanya & Clement   153
     BLOG POSTS AND SHORT ESSAYS
   15 Resistance in the Materials | Bethany Nowviskie   176
   16 Interview with Ernesto Oroza | Alex Gil   184
   17 Digital Humanities Knowledge: Reflections on the Introductory 
     Graduate Syllabus | Scott Selisker   194

PART III
Digital Humanities and Its Practices
   18 Alien Reading: Text Mining, Language Standardization, 
     and the Humanities | Jeffrey M. Binder   201
   19 My Old Sweethearts: On Digitization and the Future
     of the Print Record I Andrew Stauffer   218
   20 Argument, Evidence, and the Limits of Digital Literary Studies 
     I David L. Hoover   218	
   21 Pedagogies of Race: Digital Humanities in the Age of Ferguson
     I Amy E. Earhart and Toniesha L. Taylor   251
     BLOG POSTS AND SHORT ESSAYS
   22 Here and There: Creating DH Community | Miriam Posner   265
   23 The Sympathetic Research Imagination: Digital Humanities and
     the Liberal Arts | Rachel Sagner Buurma and Anna Tione Levine   274
   24  Lessons on Public Humanities from the Civic Sphere
     I Wendy E Hsu   280

PART IV
Digital Humanities and the Disciplines
   25 The Differences between Digital Humanities and Digital
     History | Stephen Robertson   289
   26 Digital History’s Perpetual Future Tense | Cameron Blevins 308
   27 Collections and/of Data: Art History and the Art Museum
     in the DH Mode | Matthew Battles and Michael Maizels   325
   28 Archaeology, the Digital Humanities, and the “Big Tent”
     I Ethan Watrall   345
   29 Navigating the Global Digital Humanities: Insights from Black 
     Feminism | Roopika Risam   359

     BLOG POSTS AND SHORT ESSAYS
   30 Between Knowledge and Metaknowledge: Shifting 
     Disciplinary Borders in Digital Humanities and Library
     and Information Studies | Jonathan Senchyne   368
   31 “Black Printers” on White Cards: Information Architecture 
     in the Data Structures of the Early American Book Trades
     I Molly O’Hagan Hardy   377
   32 Public, First j Sheila A. Brennan   384

part v
Digital Humanities and Its Critics
   33 Are Digital Humanists Utopian? | Brian Greenspan	393
   34 Ecological Entanglements of DH | Margaret Linley	410
   35 Toward a Cultural Critique of Digital Humanities
     | Domenico Fiormonte	438
   36 How Not to Teach Digital Humanities | Ryan Cordell	459
   37	Dropping the Digital | Jentery Sayers	475
     BLOG POSTS AND SHORT ESSAYS
   38 The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities | Wendy Hui Kyong
     Chun, Richard Grusin, Patrick Jagoda, and Rita Raley	493
   39 Difficult Thinking about the Digital Humanities | Mark Sample 510
   40 The Humane Digital ] Timothy Burke	514
   41	Hold on Loosely, or Gemeinschafi and Gesellschaft on the Web
     I Ted Underwood	519

PART VI
Forum: Text Analysis at Scale
   42 Introduction | Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein   525
   43 Humane Computation | Stephen Ramsay   527
   44 Distant Reading and Recent Intellectual History | Ted Underwood   530
   45 The Ground Truth of DH Text Mining | Tanya E. Clement   534
   46 Why I Dig: Feminist Approaches to Text Analysis
     I Lisa Marie Rhody   536
   47 More Scale, More Questions: Observations from Sociology
     I Tressie McMillan Cottom   540
   48 Do Digital Humanists Need to Understand Algorithms?
     I Benjamin M. Schmidt   546
   49 Messy Data and Faulty Tools I Joanna Swafford   556
   50 N + 1: A Plea for Cross-Domain Data in the Digital Humanities 
     I Alan Liu   559

SERIES INTRODUCTION AND EDITORS’ NOTE
     Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein 569
CONTRIBUTORS 573