WWABD? Intersectional Futures in Digital History
WWABD: What would Aphra Behn—world traveler and spy, playwright and poet of scandal, innovator of novelistic forms—do, were she to imagine a future for digital humanities in period-specific scholarship? This essay outlines a vision for the DH section of Aphra Behn Online: An Interactive Journal for...
| Published in: | ABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830 |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Aphra Behn Society
2017-10-01
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| Online Access: | http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol7/iss2/4/ |
| Summary: | WWABD: What would Aphra Behn—world traveler and spy, playwright and poet of scandal, innovator of novelistic forms—do, were she to imagine a future for digital humanities in period-specific scholarship? This essay outlines a vision for the DH section of Aphra Behn Online: An Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830. In particular, I see three important and interrelated places for development: theorizing the feminized labor of digital recovery, editing, and textual preparation; offering thoughtful and feminist approaches to digital pedagogy that are specific to the work we do in the period; and critically assessing the absences in existing digital projects. Our digital future needs to foster flexibility, experimentation, and intersectional thinking. |
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| ISSN: | 2157-7129 2157-7129 |