Survey: how do you read? « Text Mining and the Digital Humanities. How do you read? A six-question multiple-choice survey. I’m working on understanding the reading practices of humanities scholars. I’ve learned a lot from in-person interviews, but now I’m looking to confirm my understanding with a larger survey. If you’re a humanities scholar, and […]
HASTAC seeking Postdoctoral Scholar for NSF EAGER Social Network Data Grant | HASTAC. HASTAC is currently seeking a Postdoctoral Scholar to carry out social network data analysis for a newly awarded $294,000 NSF EAGER project “Assessing the Impact of Technology-Aided Participation and Mentoring on Transformative Interdisciplinary Research: A Data-Based Study of the Incentives and Success […]
The Laboratorium : HathiTrust Wins. Judge Baer issued his decision in the HathiTrust case, and it’s a near-complete victory for HathiTrust and its print-disabled codefendants. The opinion doesn’t even make it seem like a close case. On every substantive copyright issue, HathiTrust won: Section 108 on library privileges doesn’t limit the scope of fair use. A search […]
Digital Humanities Implementation Grants | National Endowment for the Humanities. Office of Digital Humanities Receipt Deadline January 23, 2013 for Projects Beginning September 2013 Brief Summary This program is designed to fund the implementation of innovative digital-humanities projects that have successfully completed a start-up phase and demonstrated their value to the field. Such projects might enhance our understanding […]
Dan Cohen’s Digital Humanities Blog. I just wanted to remind potential doctoral students in history that George Mason University and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media have Digital History Research Awards for students entering the History and Art History doctoral program. Students receiving these awards will get five years of fully funded studies, as follows: $20,000 research stipends in […]
H-Net Job Guide. The Department of History at Idaho State University seeks a tenure track, assistant professor in digital history, focusing on historical GIS. The field of specialization is open, though preference is towards candidates who will reinforce department strengths in environmental history, women’s history, transnational history, or the North American West. A Ph.D. in […]
Digital Humanities Design Consultant. The Pennsylvania State University Libraries are currently seeking a Digital Humanities Design Consultant who is a creative researcher interested in exploring an “alternative academic” career and in expanding the modes of humanistic research through emerging and existing technologies. The person in this position will be a critical part of initiating services […]
Faculty Job Openings › University of Connecticut. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is dedicating four new faculty positions to the Digital Humanities and New Media cluster. Three of the four positions will specialize in the Digital Humanities, and will encompass the use of technology in the study of text and the adaptation of literary criticism to account for the […]
Assistant Professor, Digital Media, Tenure-Track – Faculty Positions – NYU Steinhardt. The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin September 1, 2013. We are seeking to fill a position in […]
This paper examines the state of the current digital humanities canon, provides a historical overview of the decline of early digitally recovered texts, literature designed to expand the literary canon, and offers suggestions for ways that the field might work toward expansion of the digital canon. My research shows that a subfield of early literary […]
