Digital Humanities Texts - Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader by Melissa Terras, Julianne Nyhan and Edward Vanhoutte (eds.) (2013)

Many of the seminal essays in the field can be found in this collection. It's a nifty place to start for getting a sense of where the field is today.

  1. How and why did the transition from "Humanities Computing" to "Digital Humanities" happen? 
  2. Why, according to the contributors in this collection, is there a special affinity between digital platforms and literature?