Editors’ Summary: This post responds to a Scholars’ Lab post (“Breadth and Depth, a Self-Centered Dialectic”) that discussed breadth and depth as two approaches to digital humanities professional development. This framing places DH careers on two axes, one where the expectation is to know little about a lot of things and the other where the expectation is narrow, specialist-level knowledge about a smaller subset of methods. In his post, Walsh acknowledges that this framing, which he had put forward himself, has in practice exacerbated anxieties amongst early career scholars. He proposes a third term for DH professional development, “breath,” which asks us to think about the inability to pursue universal expertise.
Editors’ Choice: Breath in DH
