Digital Humanities

Terras Prompt: 9/19

¶ 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 Stephen Ramsay, Jerome McGann, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Lisa Spiro: all of the authors that we’ve read up to this point are literary scholars. Most of them work and teach in English departments today, and all of them earned PhDs in English literature. Melissa Terras’ background is, however, different: Terras (who is one of the editors of the Defining Digital Humanities textbook) received her PhD in engineering from Oxford University. But it’s clear from her writing in “Disciplined: Using Educational Studies to Analyse ‘Humanities Computing'” that Terras has been involved with the field of digital humanities (previously called humanities computing) from the very start.

¶ 2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 In what ways do these disciplinary differences appear visible in Terras’ essay? How does Terras’ approach to discussing computational analysis (and the digital humanities in general) compare to those of the other authors we’ve read so far this semester? What concerns seem to preoccupy her in this essay, and how might those concerns be tied to specific disciplinary goals or objectives?

¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 [Another way of putting that last question is this: do English scholars and engineering scholars working in the field of the digital humanities appear to care about the same things? If so, what does that reveal about the field of the digital humanities? If not, why not?]

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