Theory – Digital Humanities Now

Editors’ Choice: On Digital Humanities in Japan, the Public Humanities and Digital History: An Interview with Prof. Kikuchi Nobuhiko

Our take: This post is a part of a series featuring interviews with researchers working at institutions affiliated with the National Institutes for the Humanities exploring different projects, ideas, and initiatives. This interview with Prof. Kikuchi Nobuhiko, the Vice-Director of the Center for Data-Driven Research on Premodern Japanese Texts at the National Institute of Japanese […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Mapping Eighteenth-Century British Travel Writing on the Orient

Scholars have provided various perspectives on how Europe historically perceived the Orient, such as Said (1978) with his ground-breaking work Orientalism, as well as Ballaster (2005) and Osterhammel (2018). Moreover, despite this enormous literature on Orientalism, most studies remain limited to specific, well-known texts such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (Baktır 2014; Lowe 1991). Additionally, […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Digital Writing as Mode of Thinking & #DigiWriMo

The connectivity of web-based networks and myriad digital applications have opened up vast new opportunities, formats, and audiences for writing. Blogs, texting, crowdsourced research, the hyperlink, and multimodal composition are now somewhat ubiquitous. Digital writing is not simply a matter of integrating new tools into an unchanged repertoire of writing processes. Rather, digital writing today […]