Introduction to Digital Humanities

Kathryn C. Wymer is Professor of English and Digital Humanities Lab Coordinator at North Carolina Central University. She has served on the Executive Board of the Digital Humanities Collaborative of North Carolina and as DH Fellow and Liaison between NCCU and Duke University’s John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. Her work on digital humanities has appeared in The Digital Medievalist, Kairos, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Her most recent work focuses on digital humanities pedagogy. She received her PhD in English from UNC-Chapel Hill.

• Acknowledgments IntroductionChapter 1: Reasons to engage with the digital humanitiesChapter 2: Dealing with digital ephemerality Chapter 3: Possibilities and limitations of digital toolsChapter 4: Working with textChapter 5: Working with images and visualizationsChapter 6: Working with performancesChapter 7: Expanding your project’s reachChapter 8: Making space and time for digital humanities projectsFurther readingBibliography

"Introduction to Digital Humanities provides a concise and accessible guide… the volume would be a valuable reference for humanities researchers and practitioners aiming to further enhance their work by digital approaches, for novices trying to embark on a DH project, as well as for teachers and students in humanities disciplines seeking to keep up with the DH trend in their instruction and learning."--Yali Shi, School of Foreign Studies, Jiangnan University, China