Four college faculty contribute to digital humanities textbook

Photo Credit: A New Companion to the Digital Humanities
Thu, 04/21/2016 - 14:33

The textbook A New Companion to Digital Humanities, 2nd Edition was published by Wiley in January, 2016 with essays from five UNL faculty who are experts in digital humanities work:

  • Ken Price, Department of English: "Social Scholarly Editing”
  • Matthew L. Jockers, Department of English: "Text Mining the Humanities" (co-authored with Ted Underwood of UIUC)
  • Steve Ramsay, Department of English: "Hard Constraints: Designing Software in the Digital Humanities”
  • William G. Thomas III, Department of History: "The Promise of the Digital Humanities and the Contested Nature of Digital Scholarship”
  • Kay Walter, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities: "Only Connect: The Globalization of the Digital Humanities" (co-authored with Daniel Paul O’Donnell, Alex Gil, and Neil Fraistat)
UNL has a global reputation as a pioneer of digital humanities, especially after hosting the 2013 Digital Humanities ConferenceThe Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH), a joint program of the UNL Libraries and the College of Arts and Sciences, was established in 2005.