Reblogging from a different blog that I am closing down…

Reblogging from another blog I am closing down…

Posted this to the wrong blog a while ago….

What’s Next for Literary Studies? – NYTimes.com

Upward of 40 sessions (at MLA) are devoted to what is called the “digital humanities,” an umbrella term for new and fast-moving developments across a range of topics: the organization and administration of libraries, the rethinking of peer review, the study of social networks, the expansion of digital archives, the refining of search engines, the production of scholarly editions, the restructuring of undergraduate instruction, the transformation of scholarly publishing, the re-conception of the doctoral dissertation, the teaching of foreign languages, the proliferation of online journals, the redefinition of what it means to be a text, the changing face of tenure — in short, everything.

via What’s Next for Literary Studies? – NYTimes.com.