Afterword. Issue 1 (17th December 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dombrowski, Quinn
• Is Part Of: Modern languages open. Issue 1(2021)
• Publication Date: 2021-12-17
• Subjects: Languages, Modern -- Periodicals; Comparative linguistics -- Periodicals; Philology -- Periodicals; 405
• DOI: 10.3828/mlo.v0i0.413
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2052-5397

Abstract

Modern languages and digital humanities – broadly defined – share a kind of kinship. Scholars in both fields face questions that traditional literary scholars of English would never have to answer. There always has to be some explanation for why one studies another language, or draws upon tools and methods that are more than incidentally digital. Much as advocates for modern languages and digital humanities speak to their benefits, neither offers its practitioners an easy path. Still, we tell ourselves that the struggle is worth it, because these paths take us to places we could not imagine if we limited ourselves to the analog and the Anglophone.