"What's Going On in Digital Humanities?" Come find out - and join the discussion!

What?s Going On in Digital Humanities?
A HASTAC ScholarsDiscussion Forum, open now at
http://www.hastac.org/scholars/forum/02-16-09Whats-Going-On-in-Digital-Humanities

In the recent HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum on ?TheFuture of the Digital Humanities? featuring Brett Bobley of the NEH's Office of Digital Humanities, Willard McCartyweighed in from King's College London suggesting that instead of trying to categorize the digital humanities as a?discipline? or an ?attitude,? we should instead ?ask, ?What's going on?? andnote how differently humanities computing is playing out across the variousdigital humanities. In other words, ask not what the practice is, rather wherewe're going and what sort of institutional arrangements suit that going best.?

And so, as a follow up to our recent forum, and with nods toboth Erving Goffman and Marvin Gaye, we raise the question: ?What?s going on in the digitalhumanities today??  When the forum opens on Monday, February 16, we invite you to report on how the digital humanities are playing out in your institution,organization, or location.  Tell us aboutthe innovative projects you are launching, the groups you are forming, thesupport you are finding or lacking, the training you are receiving or offeringand the courses you are teaching or taking. We hope you will join this forum facilitated by HASTAC Scholars Staci Shultz andIsabel Millan and help us see ?what?s going on in the digital humanities? today!

Staci Shultz is a PhDstudent in the Joint Program in English & Education at the University of Michigan. She has a bachelor?s degree in English from UC Berkeley and amaster?s degree in English from Boston College. Her dissertation focuses on college students? participation in onlinefandoms and the ways in particular that fan fiction sites sponsor literacypractices. Research on emerging spaces and discourses, she argues, can lead tomore innovative, relevant, and engaging composition pedagogy that taps intostudents? experiences in the extracurriculum.

 Isabel A. Millan is adoctoral student in American Culture at the University of Michigan. She received her master?s degree in Ethnic Studies from San Francisco State University and her bachelor?s degree in bothAnthropology and Women?s Studies from the University of California, SantaBarbara. Hercurrent research interests include new media/digital technologies andglobalization; children?s literature and multimedia; transnational feminist,queer and critical race theories. She is especially interested in theresponsible development and usage of technology, and is also a strong advocateof technology?s role in education and community networking/mobilization.

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