Interdisciplining Digital Humanities: Boundary Work in an Emerging Field

by Julie Thompson Klein

Interdisciplining Digital Humanities  sorts through definitions and patterns of practice over roughly sixty-five years of work, providing an overview for specialists and a general audience alike. It is the only book that tests the widespread claim that Digital Humanities is interdisciplinary. By examining the boundary work of constructing, expanding, and sustaining a new field, it depicts both the ways this new field is being situated within individual domains and dynamic cross-fertilizations that are fostering new relationships across academic boundaries. It also accounts for digital reinvigorations of “public humanities” in cultural heritage institutions of museums, archives, libraries, and community forums.

218 pages, Hardcover

First published January 5, 2015

Reviews

[Vivian Halloran · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helpful assortment of readings that fill in some of the gaps those of us who are autodidacts interested in DH know we still have. The variety of style, approach, and subject matter in each of the chapters makes for great episodic reading. It ultimately reads more like a compendium than as a cohesive tome.

[amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Basically the ur-lit review on some major concerns in DH as a discipline (disciplines, inter-discipline, etc etc -- read the intro for a better definition).