Interdisciplining Digital Humanities: Boundary Work in an Emerging Field

by Julie Thompson Klein

Overview

Interdisciplining Digital Humanities sorts through definitions and patterns of practice over roughly sixty-five years of work, providing an overview for specialists and a general audience alike. It is the only book that tests the widespread claim that Digital Humanities is interdisciplinary. By examining the boundary work of constructing, expanding, and sustaining a new field, it depicts both the ways this new field is being situated within individual domains and dynamic cross-fertilizations that are fostering new relationships across academic boundaries. It also accounts for digital reinvigorations of “public humanities” in cultural heritage institutions of museums, archives, libraries, and community forums.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780472072545
Publisher:	University of Michigan Press
Publication date:	01/05/2015
Series:	Digital Humanities
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Julie Thompson Klein is Professor of Humanities in the English Department and Faculty Fellow for Interdisciplinary Development in the Division of Research, Wayne State University.

Gail Ryder, who created the cover art, is a graduate of the Master’s in Interdisciplinary Studies at Wayne State University and an Associate Professor of Humanities at Siena Heights University, where she teaches liberal arts courses and composition—online. Bringing her classroom to the virtual world has given her the opportunity to merge a strong interest in the visual arts with her passion for curriculum development. Her newest creation is a course on the Harlem Renaissance. In her spare time, she works on collages, multi-media journals, and one-act plays about the locker room at the local YMCA.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Emerging 1

1 Interdisciplining 14

2 Defining 37

3 Institutionalizing 67

4 Professionalizing 90

5 Educating 108

6 Collaborating and Rewarding 135

Resourcing Andy Engel 157

Print References for Chapters 1-6 173

Index 189