Schools of Schools of “Humanities Computing”

Posted: February 14, 2009 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Digital Humanities, Essays, Research, Reviews | Tags: Computers, digital humanities, schools, Teaching, university of alberta | Leave a comment »   When I went to Yale to begin my PhD in 1989, the English department—or perhaps just the graduate students, a group that tends to feel these things more strongly—was mourning the decline of the “Yale School”. New Historicism was the increasingly dominant critical approach at the time, and while it seemed that all the Deconstructionists had been at Yale, none of the major New Historicists were—Stephen Greenblatt got his PhD (and B.A. and M.A.) from Yale, but, like Michel Foucault, seems never to have held a faculty appointment there. I was thinking of this sense of “school” yesterday, while I was attending the University of Alberta’s Humanities Computing Graduate School conference. Read the rest of this entry »

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