Humanities & Literature: Digital Humanities

Welcome to the CUNY (City University of New York) Digital Humanities Resource Guide, a collaboratively produced introduction to the field of Digital Humanities.

A community-based Q&A board for digital humanities.

An article featured in Digital Humanities Quarterly written by Patrick Svensson, Professor of Humanities and Information Technology at Umeå University and the former Director of HUMlab.

Digital Humanities Quarterly is an open-access, peer-reviewed, digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities. Published by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations.

Humanist is an international seminar on digital humanities founded in 1987. Its aim is to provide a forum for discussion of intellectual, scholarly, pedagogical, and social issues and for exchange of information among participants. Published by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations.

National Endowment for the Humanities website for their Office of the Digital Humanities.

18thConnect focuses on eighteenth century literary and historical studies. The digital resources included are peer-reviewed and reflect research on British and American works.

NINES is the Networked Infrastructure for Nineteeth-Century Electronic Scholarship. Peer-reviewed digital scholarly resources reflecting research on 19th century British & American works.

Digital Medievalist is an international web-based community for medievalists working with digital media.

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Early Modern Resources is a gateway site for anyone studying the early modern period (c.1500-1800 CE). Sites are checked for suitability but not rigorously evaluated.

The Internet Shakespeare Editions publishes only high quality materials with an aim is to provide the best in Shakespeare scholarship and performance on a site that is freely available.

Anthology of Medieval, Renaissance, 17th Century and Restoration era literature. Also links to Luminarium Encyclopedia: a project begun in 2001 to provide historical contexts
for the people, places, and events featured in Luminarium.

Digital editions of classical Greek & Roman literary texts.

Romantic Circles is a refereed scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture.

The Rossetti Archive facilitates the scholarly study of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the painter, designer, writer, and translator. Contains pictorial and textual works.

The World of Dante is a multi-media research tool intended to facilitate the study of the Divine Comedy through a wide range of offerings. These include an encoded Italian text which allows for structured searches and analyses, an English translation, interactive maps, diagrams, music, a database, timeline and gallery of illustrations.

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on almost 36,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.