Digital Humanities and Adjuncts: Putting the Human Back Into the Humanities

Published In

Disrupting the Digital Humanities

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2018

Subjects

Digital humanities, Digital pedagogy

Abstract

What is the role of adjunct teaching in the digital humanities? Could digital humanities become a hiring expectation, particularly among less-funded institutions, before digital pedagogy experts provide guidelines or best practices articulated specifically for adjunct working conditions? This essay examines the “adjunctification” of the humanities professoriate with a specific focus on the perception of digital humanities as immune from the hiring reductions endemic to the non-DH humanities. It discloses particular working conditions of adjunct instructors using DH methods in the classroom with little-to-no instructional support. It proposes an ethic of care that could be implemented to protect adjunct digital humanities faculty.

Description

Published by Punctum Books

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/27697

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