Transformative Digital Humanities: Challenges and Opportunities

Transformative Digital Humanities takes a two-pronged approach to the digital humanities: it examines the distinct kinds of work currently being undertaken in the field, while also addressing current issues in the digital humanities, including sustainability, accessibility, interdisciplinarity, and funding.

With contributions from humanities and LIS scholars based in China, Canada, England, Germany, Spain, and the United States, this collection of case studies provides a framework for readers to develop new projects as well as to see how existing projects might continue to develop over time. This volume also participates in the current digital humanities conversation by bringing forward emerging voices that offer new options for cooperation, by demonstrating how the digital humanities can become a tool for activism, and by illustrating the potential of the digital humanities to reexamine and reconstitute existing canons.

Transformative Digital Humanities considers what sorts of challenges still exist in the field and suggests how they might be addressed. As such, the book will be essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of information science and digital humanities. It should also be of great interest to practitioners around the globe.

Mary McAleer Balkun is Professor of English, Director of Faculty Development, and co-chair of the Digital Humanities Committee at Seton Hall University. She is also co-chair of the New Jersey Digital Humanities Consortium. She is the author of The American Counterfeit: Authenticity and Identity in American Literature and Culture (2006) and co-editor of three books.

Marta Mestrovic Deyrup is Professor/Outreach and Humanities Librarian at Seton Hall University Libraries, co-chair of the Digital Humanities Committee, and co-chair of the New Jersey Digital Humanities Consortium. She is the editor of Digital Scholarship and the author or editor of eight other books and numerous articles on scholarly communication, Slavic librarianship, and information-seeking behavior.