National Institute forNITLE Digital Humanities: Community Voices
How are liberal arts campuses engaging the digital humanities today? What approaches are being used, and who is using them? What impact are these efforts having and what ends achieved? The NITLE digital humanities initiative is working to identify and bring attention to those in the community leading on-the-ground efforts at liberal arts colleges, making innovation happen, and contributing to the development of the field. Here are their voices.
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February 21
As NITLE notes on the front page of their Initiative in Digital Humanities, “the digital humanities are here, albeit unevenly distributed.” Those doing digital humanities work at smaller schools face particular challenges. Without the infrastructure of a digital humanities center (and its attendant support staff), liberal arts college scholars embarked on digital projects can feel very isolated. Indeed, many of you reading this may be the only DHer on your campus, or part of a small cohort working to introduce DH into the research and curriculum at your school… -
December 1
In our second installment of videos on Digital Humanities and the Undergrad, Jen Rajchel, an English Major at Bryn Mawr College explains what she learned from developing her online thesis project, Mooring Gaps: Marianne Moore’s Bryn Mawr Poetry. Rajchel’s comments demonstrate both the value of engaging students in authentic research and the benefits of moving […] -
November 23
Brett Bobley, Director, and Jennifer Serventi, Senior Program Officer in the Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) answer some questions about NEH-funded professional development opportunities in the digital humanities and how they might benefit faculty and staff at small liberal arts colleges. Several Institutes for Advanced Topics in the […] -
September 14
In an earlier post I argued that the digital humanities are important for small liberal arts colleges because they offer opportunities to connect undergraduates to humanities research. But how do students feel about that? Recently, I had the opportunity to explore that connection with Jen Rajchel, an English major at Bryn Mawr College. Rajchel first encountered the digital […]
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August 23
Patrick Rashleigh, a Faculty Technology Liaison at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, recently took part in the NEH-sponsored One Week, One Tool institute. In this post, he reflects on that experience and how small liberal arts colleges might learn from it to collaborate in the support of the digital humanities. This past July, George Mason University’s Center for […] -
June 7
Bob Kieft, College Librarian, Occidental College, invites members of the NITLE community to join Occidental College, Hamilton College, Wheaton College and Willamette University in exploring digital scholarship. At the NITLE Summit in March of 2010, three colleges, Hamilton, Occidental, and Wheaton (MA), conducted a session entitled “Digital Humanities and the Liberal Arts College.” […] -
December 17
What’s the future for scholarly publishing? Faculty research in the liberal arts? Yesterday, I had the chance to catch up — via IM — with Kathleen Fitzpatrick, who will deliver the keynote address at the 2010 NITLE Summit. She will speak on “The Future of Scholarly Publishing: Supporting Faculty Research in the Liberal Arts College.” […]