I argue that there is a place for English not only in the digital humanities but also in the study of digital culture more generally.
This is a time of expansion for the work of literature departments to include digital journalism, electronic literature, game studies, software studies, platform studies, and critical code studies.
The international Digital Arts and Culture conference, for which I served as program coordinator in 2009, has featured some of these new fields over the course of its history, sometimes before these disciplinary areas developed conferences of their own.
The MLA has also been indicating its readiness to embrace some of these new areas of scholarship by honoring Matthew Kirschenbaum this year with a book prize.
However, one of the aspects of my scholarly practice that differs from many literary critics is the fact that I frequently conduct interviews and do fieldwork
The feedback loop involved in blogging is also an important part of how I develop print projects..