Intersectionality in Digital Humanities
Barbara Bordalejo
Roopika Risam
9781641890502
208 pages
Amsterdam University Press
Overview
Coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in the late
1980s, intersectionality makes the case that
dimensions of identity, such as gender and
race, cannot be understood in isolation from
each other because they work together to
shape lived experience. As digital
humanities has expanded in scope and
content, questions of how to negotiate the
overlapping influences of race, class, gender,
sexuality, nation, and other dimensions that
shape data, archives, and methodologies
have come to the fore. Taking up these
concerns, the authors in this volume explore their effects on the methodological, political,
and ethical practices of digital humanities.
Essays examine intersectionality from a
range of positions: the influence of
overlapping identities on scholars within the
digital humanities community; how the fields
in which they work are subject to competing
tensions created by intersecting power
structures within digital humanities and
academia; and the methodological
possibilities and scholarly potential for
intersectionality as a framing theory in digital
humanities scholarship.
Author Bio
Barbara Bordalejo
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Barbara Bordalejo is a textual critic and digital humanist with a background in English literature. She is Assistant Professor at KU Leuven, Belgium.
Roopika Risam
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Roopika Risam is Assistant Professor of English at Salem State University, Mass. Her research focuses on the role of digital humanities in African diaspora studies.