Digital Humanities and Italian Studies: Intersections and Oppositions. (3rd July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hall, Crystal
• Is Part Of: Italian culture. Volume 37:Number 2(2019)
• Page Start: 97
• Page End: 115
• Publication Date: 2019-07-03
• Subjects: Digital Humanities -- Italian -- literature -- history -- Dante; Arts, Italian -- Periodicals; Italian philology -- Periodicals; Italy -- Civilization -- Periodicals; 700.945
• DOI: 10.1080/01614622.2019.1717754
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0161-4622

Abstract

Abstract : This article examines the relationship between two fields of study, Italian Studies and Digital Humanities (DH), by documenting projects that employ digital or computational methods in the study of Italian language, literature, history, and the arts. In a complementary fashion, the author outlines the analytical questions of Italian scholars that have potential to advance inquiry in DH. A final section is devoted to contextualizing DH within the practice of Italian Studies at the institutional, program, and department levels by drawing on research of course offerings and a survey circulated in August 2017. The overall finding is that the area of overlap between DH and Italian Studies is intellectually rich, with increasing (yet still sparse) opportunities to develop specialization in this area.