{"id":1276,"date":"2017-01-28T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T20:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:38","slug":"bits-and-the-bard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/01\/28\/bits-and-the-bard\/","title":{"rendered":"Bits and the Bard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1283 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shakespeare-at-computer.jpeg\" alt=\"shakespeare at computer\" width=\"314\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shakespeare-at-computer.jpeg 314w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shakespeare-at-computer-150x76.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shakespeare-at-computer-300x153.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>he annual convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA) is the greatest show on earth for the humanities and for some years now, digital humanities\u2014using computer technology to understand literature and the arts\u2014have been all the rage. They present new ways to approach the work of humanities scholarship, and they\u2019ve already delivered not just new results but new <em>kinds<\/em> of results.\u00a0Digital humanities have also become integrated into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/The-Job-Market-Moment-of\/238944\">academic job market<\/a>. That raises the question: Will expertise in digital humanities get graduate students the academic jobs that so many of them seek?\u00a0<strong>Sidonie Smith<\/strong>, an English professor at U-M\u00a0and a former president of the MLA thinks this new work has a chance to revolutionize what humanists do. She declares in her 2015 book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.umich.edu\/8845473\/manifesto_for_the_humanities\">Manifesto for the Humanities,<\/a> that the new digital environment &#8220;ratchets up the urgency of pursuing a 21st-century vision of doctoral education.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA) is the greatest show on earth for the humanities and for some years now, digital humanities\u2014using computer technology to understand literature and the arts\u2014have been all the rage. They present new ways to approach the work of humanities scholarship, and they\u2019ve already delivered not just new results but new\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/01\/28\/bits-and-the-bard\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,130],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-education","tag-research"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shakespeare-at-computer.jpeg",314,160,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shakespeare-at-computer-150x76.jpeg",150,76,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shakespeare-at-computer-300x153.jpeg",300,153,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shakespeare-at-computer.jpeg",314,160,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shakespeare-at-computer.jpeg",314,160,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shakespeare-at-computer.jpeg",314,160,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shakespeare-at-computer.jpeg",314,160,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shakespeare-at-computer-200x140.jpeg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shakespeare-at-computer-60x42.jpeg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shakespeare-at-computer.jpeg",314,160,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shakespeare-at-computer.jpeg",314,160,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shakespeare-at-computer.jpeg",314,160,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The annual convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA) is the greatest show on earth for the humanities and for some years now, digital humanities\u2014using computer technology to understand literature and the arts\u2014have been all the rage. 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