Register
Register here for the annual meeting and to begin or renew an ASA membership
Register here to submit a proposal through the ASA's 2013 submission site. (Closed)
Access your ASA membership account at JHU Press including online access to American Quarterly and the Encyclopedia of American Studies Online. Forgot your membership account passwordCreate an account to join an ASA community. Only current ASA members may contribute to the community blogs. Registration is not required to submit display or text ads or news and events or to view many pages. We will refuse posts that are not of professional interest to ASA members.
Click here for membership FAQ's
Group Members
The following people are members of this group:
The following people are administrators of this group:
Member Tools
We're sorry. You are not yet a member of the Digital Humanities Caucus.
Register or login to join this group.
Main | Resources | 2012 Roundtable | Contact | Contact Members
Digital Humanities Caucus
In the last decades, computing has become a standard part of academic and scholarly life, both in American Studies and across the disciplines.
At the least, computers are necessary tools that facilitate research, teaching and communication, but for many practitioners computing has served to reshape both the methods and theories that underlie their work. While many members of the American Studies Association are actively working in areas of digital humanities, and many more are influenced by the rise of new approaches that computing has enabled, there has yet to form a unified point of contact for ASA members interested in pursuing digital humanities from within an American Studies framework.
The Digital Humanities Caucus will work to further communication and collaboration by:
- Bringing together ASA members who are working across the various areas of digital humanities, including for example: digital history, electronic literature, cyberculture studies, virtual communities, GIS, online scholarly publications, the creation of digital editions and collections, and the creation of digital tools (cyberinfrastructure) for humanities scholars.
- Addressing directly the issues and practices of digital pedagogy and digital research as they affect the field of American Studies.
- Creating and sharing resources among Caucus members and with the wider ASA membership, through the ASA Web site and related venues.
- Working to foster greater mutual awareness among digital humanities scholars in American Studies and in other humanities disciplines.
- Developing proposals for conference sessions and related events for potential inclusion on the ASA annual meeting program.
Please join us! (Members should also join our Listserv discussion list.)
Contact information:
Susan Garfinkel
sgarfinkel “at” loc.gov
Community Blog
And Vice Versa
This entry is part of the American Studies and Digital Humanities 2012 Roundtable.
The term digital humanities includes a lot of things—visualization and mapping, text analysis and topic modeling, corpus building and preservation, the gathering of data, and the production of metadata, and the computational exploration of all of the above. Though all of these approaches are digital, they bear the same kinds of methodological differences that play out through our traditional fields; further, these approaches are often put to use in the service of strikingly different intellectual questions.
Digital Humanities at ASA San Juan
Please join the Digital Humanities Caucus for part or all of a Friday’s worth of sessions at the ASA meeting in San Juan. Please also consider participating in any of several ways:
Categories:
What do Digital Humanities and American Studies Have in Common?
This entry is part of the AmericanStudies and Digital Humanities 2012 Roundtable.
To introduce this online roundtable forum, “What Can the Digital Humanities Bring to American Studies, and Vice Versa?,” I’d like to briefly bring up the question—perhaps more correctly, the problem—of interdisciplinarity, and its related issues of individual and communal self-definition.
Participants Wanted: Digital Humanities Lightning Talks
The Digital Humanities Caucus of the American Studies Association seeks ASA conference attendees to participate in a session called “Digital Shorts: New Platforms of Knowledge Production and Resistance.”
Categories:
THATCamp Caribe and ASA in Puerto Rico
The American Studies Association (ASA) and THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology unconference) are pleased to announce THATCamp Caribe 2012, to be held November 12-14 at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez. THATCamp Caribe will immediately precede the November 15-18 ASA Annual Meeting in San Juan. Registration opens April 17th and spaces will be filled on a first come, first served basis.
Categories:
Quick Links
American Quarterly [official journal site]
American Quarterly [editorial site]
Encyclopedia of American Studies
Encyclopedia of American Studies [editorial site]