I’ve been thinking about making things as a way to “do” scholarship for a while now. There’s an unsurprising obsession among many of those at the border of digital studies and the “digital humanities” with bridging the gap between what we study and what we publish. But there’s always risk involved in making something weird. It’s easy to know what to do with a rejected essay for a journal: there’s always another venue, and revising, while painful, is manageable. Making things is a lot less certain. And once you’ve made something, there’s no guarantee your prospective search or tenure committee will find it valuable. At this year’s MLA Evaluating Digital Scholarship panel, many of the speakers relied on the additive model, or the monograph “plus” the experimental work.
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