New book on digital humanities crosses subject borders

Digital humanities is today an integrated part of humanistic research at many universities, and initiatives in the field take a variety of forms. At Linnaeus University, Digital Humanities currently develops as a cross-disciplinary field. It is based on existing collaborations between faculties, in the form of an iInstitute tied to the international iSchool organization, as part of a research excellence centre on Data Intensive Sciences and Applications (DISA), and as a European collaboration within the Dariah-EU network – to mention a few. Digital Humanities also recently started the Digital Humanities, Master Programme, where many of the researchers contributing to this book are active as teachers.

The papers in the anthology Doing Digital Humanities: Concepts, Approaches, Cases are edited by Joacim Hansson and Jonas Svensson, both professors at Linnaeus University. The contributions emanate from a conference on digital humanities, arranged and funded by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Linnaeus University on March 12–13, 2020. The book is part of the university’s initiative to implement digital humanities across departments and faculties, with both a scientific and a pedagogical approach, building on competences already present among its researchers and teachers.

Focusing the humanities as such, this volume contains contributions from the scholarly fields of archaeology, history, library and information science, linguistics, comparative literature, media and communication studies, e-learning, and the study of religions. It displays a variety of cross-disciplinary connections, new research questions, and innovative methodological approaches – all hallmarks of the wide field of digital humanities.

Doing Digital Humanities is published as open access and can be freely downloaded using the link above.