Don’t despair, create! (Or despair, and create!) Many of us are turning to creative outlets to keep the stresses of a global pandemic at bay. a thousand little fires is a space to share and see what we create while reconciling with self-isolation. One new creation each day. If you’ve been knitting, making music, baking…

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This week, we’ve gathered another selection of posts on digital humanities during a pandemic, covering topics from museums to transcription to prison education. You can find last week’s roundup here. Working Together to Transcribe Ancient Documents During COVID-19 Sarah Emily Bond As the pandemic known as COVID-19 grips the globe, thousands of instructors in the United…

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The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a range of reflections and resources related to digital humanities, especially on digital pedagogy, labor, data visualization, and online collections. We have collected some of them here, and we hope it serves as a useful resource for our readers. Reflections The Stakes of Multilingual DH in the United States Quinn…

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Digital Humanities Now is taking the week off for spring break. All posts nominated this week will be included for consideration when we return next week. Keep nominating!

Over 100 years since the Dawes Act land grabs, theft of Indigenous resources continues through misappropriated identity. Non-Natives frequently dismiss these “family myths” as harmless, claiming they do not affect Natives in any material way. I wanted to see the data. Content Note: This post contains references to anti-Indigenous slurs & other racism. Background On…

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Where We All Ended Up by Lee Skallerup Bessette I don’t know if I can say what impact THATCamp had on (checks notes) Comparative Literature, but I do know, personally, what impact it had on my teaching and my career. A decade ago, I was a contingent faculty member in the middle of nowhere. I…

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Knowledge activism vs passive consumption – rethinking Wikipedia in education Kindness on the Internet has been much in the news of late and this quote from novelist Henry James stood out to me: Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third…

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