The NEH Digital Humanities Initiative

Wow, this is really cool. I can think of a pile of uses for this kind of money. I think I foresee another grant application in the works…. Once I finish the books I’m working on right now, that is. My hockey article is coming along, too, thanks to my kind writing group at the NWP Summer Institute. They’re coming in each day with great poetry and narrative essays and I walk in with “guess what? Here’s another page or two from my hockey opus!”

NEH has launched a new digital humanities initiative aimed at supporting projects that utilize or study the impact of digital technology. Digital technologies offer humanists new methods of conducting research, conceptualizing relationships, and presenting scholarship. NEH is interested in fostering the growth of digital humanities and lending support to a wide variety of projects, including those that deploy digital technologies and methods to enhance our understanding of a topic or issue; those that study the impact of digital technology on the humanities–exploring the ways in which it changes how we read, write, think, and learn; and those that digitize important materials thereby increasing the public’s ability to search and access humanities information.

Digital Humanities Initiative