Regardless of preference, most of us experience a difference between email conversations and discussions over coffee at a neighborhood cafe. Even the advanced capabilities of online video chat tools, which enable far more than asynchronous text exchange between multiple parties, offer something otherwise than the encounters we have across the...

(Richard A. Cohen translating Emmanuel Levinas, Ethics and Infinity, 23).

The print dissertation is still the standard of the humanities PhD. Yet, many schools are exploring assessment and advancement criteria related to digital scholarship in the humanities. I love Nicholas Bauch’s suggestion of “experimental humanities” as more fitting category than “digital humanities” for approaches to humanities research and writing that...

This post was the methodologies section of my initial dissertation proposal in the Spring of 2015.