Over at Hyperallergic, I have contributed a new article on the removal of books from the fine arts library at UT-Austin and the planned movement of books from the libraries at UW-Madison [Article Here]. The tales of these two libraries is an increasingly familiar one, wherein thousands of books are deaccessioned or moved into off-site... Continue Reading →
Mapping Racism And Assessing the Success of the Digital Humanities
This week, The Chronicle of Higher Education published a piece (now behind a paywall) written by Prof. Timothy Brennan. In it, the digital humanities as a field is essentially assessed as a "bust." A concluding critique seemed particularly harsh: "Rather than a revolution, the digital humanities is a wedge separating the humanities from its reason to exist... Continue Reading →
Mapping the Digital Humanities at the University of Iowa
As I drove from Milwaukee to Iowa City last year, I thought about the digital humanists at the University of Iowa and the diversity of their work. Though the richness of the digital interfaces for the projects had drawn me in, it was their scope – the methodologies, the content, the geographic focus – that gripped... Continue Reading →