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Why did you decide to write The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation? I’ve spent the last decade working on ensuring long-term access to digital information. Over that time I’ve been frustrated by the ways that digital preservation is conceived of...

Predictions have an uncanny tendency to come true, just not in the way predicted. Take the early 1990s mantra of ‘the death of the book’---the existentially-laden theme of many a brow-furrowed academic conference, journal special issue, or edited collection...

Humanists love words, and with good reason. Studying the history of a word like culture reveals an enormous amount about how we make the world meaningful, who we are, and how we got this way. Scholars of literature, culture, and intellectual history have...

Literary criticism, magpie discipline, has long benefitted from borrowing techniques from other fields--philosophy, history, linguistics. In recent years, criticism adopted methods for dealing with aggregate data and text analysis originally developed to...