Advancing Digital Humanities ― Research, Methods, Theories

Advancing Digital Humanities moves beyond definition of this dynamic and fast growing field to show how its arguments, analyses, findings and theories are pioneering new directions in the humanities globally. Sections cover digital methods, critical curation and research futures, with theoretical and practical chapters framed around key areas of activity including modelling collections, data-driven analysis, and thinking through building. These are linked through the concept of 'ambitious generosity', a way of working to pursue large-scale research questions while supporting and enabling other research areas and approaches, both within and beyond the academy.

Katherine Bode is Senior Lecturer in Literary and Textual Studies at the Centre for Digital Humanities Research at the Australian National University, Australia. Her most recent monograph, Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field (2012), explores the critical potential of quantitative book historical and bibliographical methods for literary history.


Paul Longley Arthur is Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney, Australia. He was previously Deputy Director, ANU Centre for European Studies, a joint initiative of the European Commission and Australian National University. From 2010 to 2013, he was Deputy Director of the National Centre of Biography, ANU, and Deputy General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography.