My colleague and collaborator, Sarah Roger, and I recently submitted the manuscript for The Routledge Guide to Canadian Literature & Digital Humanities. This book is part of a Routledge series offering gentle introductions to topics in Canadian literature. Ours focuses on CanLit & DH, the history of the intersections of the two, historical and contemporary projects, future directions (as we see them), and some practical advice for getting started.
We include discussions of Sandra Djwa’s early work on digital concordances of Canadian poetry, Frank Davey & Fred Wah’s ‘online’ journal, Swiftcurrent, Northrop Frye’s address to a 1990 meeting of humanities computing people, the evolution (& sometimes hubris) of the Humanist listserv, Jordan Abel’s digital poetic experiments, and much more.
It’s always exciting to move from brainstorming to scattered ideas to fragments of an argument to a draft of a book. Here are said fragments in the process of being converted to less-fragmentary book form:
The book will appeal to those interested in Canadian literature and computer programming so we anticipate sales in the millions. Please look for it to be published next year!
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