Research Guides
Textual Studies and Digital Humanities: Home
This guide supports UW's undergraduate Minor in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities and the Graduate Certificate in Textual and Digital Studies.
What is Textual Studies?
"Textual studies describes a range of fields and methodologies that evaluate how texts are constituted both physically and conceptually, document how they are preserved, copied, and circulated, and propose ways in which they might be edited to minimize error and maximize the text’s integrity."
- Textual StudiesByron, Mark. "Textual Studies." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. February 23, 2021.
What is Digital Humanities?
"Defined succinctly, 'digital humanities' involves the application of computational techniques to traditional humanities problems, both as a scholarly practice and as the study thereof. 'Digital humanities' thus describes both a technology-empowered methodological approach (or approaches) and a self-reflective critical component."
- Digital HumanitiesBurrows, Simon, and Michael Falk. "Digital Humanities." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. January 22, 2021.
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