Week 14: What will the digital humanities look like in the future?

Thanks for your enthusiastic participation in yesterday’s “Green Team / Red Team” review. I hope you left class with a few specific ideas about how to improve your individual project, and I hope you’ll come see me during office hours if you’d like another set of eyes to see your project in progress.

Next week, we will have our final reading discussion of the semester and one more Gray Jacket workshop. Here’s a quick preview:

• On Monday, we’ll consider the future of the digital humanities, with Arian and Michelle serving as our discussion superheroes. Please read and be ready to discuss pages 99–120 in Digital_Humanities, as well as the following articles from Part VI of Debates in the Digital Humanities: “Digital Humanities As/Is a Tactical Term,” by Matthew Kirschenbaum; “The Digital Humanities or a Digital Humanism,” by David Parry; and “Humanities 2.0: Promise, Perils, Predictions,” by Cathy N. Davidson.
• On Wednesday, our colleagues from Newman Library will join us to review the current draft of The Gray Jacket and offer us their suggestions for improving and completing the project. Before you come to class, you should ensure that all of the articles from your assigned issue have been double- and triple-checked to eliminate OCR errors and ensure conformity with our style guide.

We’re coming down to the wire on both the collaborative class project and the individual project, so if you need help with anything, now is the time to let me know.