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Digital Americanists

This is the wiki-based website for the new professional organization Digital Americanists. According to the constitution adopted on May 26, 2007 at the American Literature Association conference in Boston, MA, the purposes of the society are:

  • To support the creation and recognition of scholarship on American literature and culture in digital media, including hemispheric and transnational scholarship.
  • To support the development of the technological and administrative infrastructure to sustain and evaluate such scholarship.
  • To support informal and formal conversation, reflection, and collaboration among Americanists and other interested parties using the tools of digital scholarship.

We invite you to consider membership in this new organization. Once you've become a member, please add your profile to the Member Profiles section of the website. Additionally, if you work on a digital project relevant to the study of American literature and culture, please add that project to the Associated Digital Projects list.

The founding officers are:

Andrew Jewell, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, President
Edward Whitley, Lehigh University, Vice-President
Amanda Gailey, University of Georgia, Secretary/Treasurer

Please join the Digital Americanists at the American Literature Association 2008

The Digital Americanists will host two sessions at the American Literature Association's annual meeting in San Francisco, CA, May 22-25, 2008.

Friday, May 23, 2008, 9:30-10:50am

Session 8-A Discoveries Through Digitization (Pacific B/C)
Organized by the Digital Americanists

Chair: Andrew Jewell, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

  • "Discovering the Text through Experimental Digital Humanities Infrastructure," Amy Earhart, Texas A&M University
  • "Digitizing the Sealts 'Check-List of Books Owned and Borrowed': New Insights on Melville's Reading and Collecting," Steven Olsen-Smith, Boise State University
  • "Digital Scholarship and Graduate Studies in American Literature," Elizabeth Lorang, University of Nebraska, Lincoln


Friday, May 23, 2008, 3:30-4:50am

Session 12-A Roundtable: The Politics of Digital Scholarship (Pacific B/C)
Organized by the Digital Americanists

Moderator: Edward Whitley, Lehigh University

  • Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
  • Amanda Gailey, University of Georgia
  • Matt Cohen, Duke University
  • Laura Mandell, Miami University
  • Andrew Jewell, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Hope to see you there!

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