Disrupting the Digital Humanities

All too often, defining a discipline becomes more an exercise of exclusion than inclusion. Disrupting the Digital Humanities seeks to rethink how we map disciplinary terrain by directly confronting the gatekeeping impulse of many other so-called field-defining collections. What is most beautiful about the work of the Digital Humanities is exactly the fact that it can't be tidily anthologized. In fact, the desire to neatly define the Digital Humanities (to filter the DH-y from the DH) is a way of excluding the radically diverse work that actually constitutes the field. This collection, then, works to push and prod at the edges of the Digital Humanities - to open the Digital Humanities rather than close it down. Ultimately, it's exactly the fringes, the outliers, that make the Digital Humanities both lovely and rigorous.This collection does not constitute yet another reservoir for the new Digital Humanities canon. Rather, our aim is less about assembling content as it is about creating new conversations. Building a truly communal space for the digital humanities requires that we all approach that space with a commitment to: 1) creating open and non-hierarchical dialogues; 2) championing non-traditional work that might not otherwise be recognized through conventional scholarly channels; 3) amplifying marginalized voices; 4) advocating for students and learners; and 5) sharing generously to support the work of our peers.TABLE OF CONTENTS //Cathy N. Davidson, Preface: Difference is Our Operating SystemDorothy Kim and Jesse Stommel, Disrupting the Digital Humanities: An IntroductionI. EtymologyAdeline Koh, A Letter to the Humanities: DH Will Not Save YouAudrey Watters, The Myth and the Millennialism of 'Disruptive Innovation'Meg Worley, The Rhetoric of Disruption: What are We Doing Here?Jesse Stommel, Public Digital HumanitiesII. IdentityJonathan Hsy and Rick Godden, Universal Design and Its DiscontentsAngel Nieves, DH as 'Disruptive Innovation' for Restorative Social Justice: Virtual Heritage and 3D Reconstructions of South Africa's Township HistoriesAnnemarie Perez, Lowriding through the Digital Humanities III. JeremiadMongrel Coalition Against Gringpo, Gold Star for You, Mongrel Dream LibraryMichelle Moravec, Exceptionalism in Digital Humanities: Community, Collaboration, and ConsensusMatt Thomas, The Trouble with ProfHackerSean Michael Morris, Digital Humanities and the Erosion of InquiryIV. LaborMoya Bailey, #transform(ing)DH Writing and Research: An Autoethonography of Digital Humanities and Feminist EthicsKathi Inman Berens and Laura Sanders, DH and Adjuncts: Putting the Human Back into the HumanitiesLiana Silva Ford, Not Seen, Not HeardSpencer D. C. Keralis, Disrupting Labor in Digital Humanities; or, The Classroom Is Not Your CrowdV. NetworksMaha Bali, The Unbearable Whiteness of the DigitalEunsong Kim, The Politics of VisibilityBonnie Stewart, Academic Influence: The Sea of Change VI. PlayEdmond Y Chang, Playing as MakingKat Lecky, Humanizing the InterfaceRobin Wharton, Bend Until It Breaks: Digital Humanities and Resistance VII. StructureChris Friend, Outsiders, All: Connecting the Pasts and Futures of Digital Humanities and CompositionLee Skallerup-Bessette, W(h)ither DH? New Tensions, Directions, and Evolutions in the Digital HumanitiesChris Bourg, The Library is Never NeutralFiona Barnett, After the Digital Humanities, or, a PostscriptConclusionDorothy Kim, #DecolonizeDH or A Practical Guide to Making DH Less White.…