Comments on: Conversation, Collaboration, Credit: The Graduate Researcher in the Digital Scholarly Environment

By: Susan Brown

Susan Brown — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 02:43:11 +0000

Great post, Melissa. Hannah, I am interested in this question you raise about why the positivity. While both academic job prospects and real world prospects are, I think, improved for emergent scholars working in DH, I agree that it’s not the whole story. I would hazard that part of it is also that involvement in DH so so often involves two things that are not usually part of the experience of the more typical English (or other humanities) graduate student or postdoc: truly collaborative work, and the chance to participate in making things in addition to critiquing things. I have a notion that creativity is a human impulse that is stifled in many ways by mainstream academic work.

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Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:07:02 +0000

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By: Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:38:28 +0000

Thanks, Hannah! And I agree with you. I’m now chairing the roundtable at Exile’s Return, so this is certainly an issue that I’m going to ask that we discuss. Perhaps those of us who are on the panel who will be at DSHI can sit down and discuss where we want this conversation to go, so that I can head us in the right direction with my introduction.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:37:09 +0000

Hannah, I agree with you. I’m now chairing the roundtable at Exile’s Return, so this is certainly an issue that I’m going to ask that we discuss. Perhaps those of us who are on the panel who will be at DSHI can sit down and discuss where we want this conversation to go, so that I can head us in the right direction with my introduction.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:29:13 +0000

Thanks so much for sharing this, Melissa. I would love to see our round table pick up from this conversation, rather than treading the same ground. I’m particularly interested in the affects of DH as you describe them, and as I’ve observed at the DHSI many times. As the ACCUTE Professional Concerns panel I intended made amply clear, the primary affect of English right now seems to be angst: about the job market, about the state of the discipline, about the future of the humanities in the university. DH, on the other hand, remains almost utopian in its positivity. I think there are reasons for this beyond the slightly expanded job prospects, and I’m curious about what they might be.