http://mith.umd.edu/engl668k/?p=1671 ENGL 668K at the University of Maryland Mon, 12 Jun 2017 13:00:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 http://mith.umd.edu/engl668k/?p=1671#comment-32130 Matthew Kirschenbaum Wed, 01 May 2013 22:04:30 +0000 http://mith.umd.edu/engl668k/?p=1671#comment-32130 Sounds like it was an interesting talk. The “divide” you note is real, and palpable, and largely an artifact, I suspect of tangled institutional histories. Rhet/comp has been some of the most forward thinking constituencies in university English departments (when those programs are housed in an English department, as is the case here at UMD though not everywhere) as regards computers and computing; at the same time, rhet/comp often finds itself marginalized within departments who opt to make literary history/criticism the center of their intellectual identity. I suspect some of the distance between R/C and digital humanities (and before it, humanities computing as it was once known) was an attempt on the part of the latter to align itself with the “research” side of their parent units, rather than teaching or support. Not the most generous move, but one that would have certainly seemed justifiable in a tactical sense.

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