“It’s no secret that times are tough for scholars in the humanities.
Jobs are scarce, resources are stretched, and institutions of tertiary
education are facing untold challenges. Those of us fortunate enough
to hold tenured positions at financially stable colleges and
universities may be the last faculty to enjoy such comparative
privilege. The future shape of the academy is hard to predict, except
to acknowledge that it is unlikely to remain static. Our profession is
being rapidly reconfigured, but many changes are not happening quickly
enough. In the realm of the digital, for example, entrenched
traditional standards of assessment, support, and recognition still
fail to encourage the kind of exciting new research that keeps our
disciplines vibrant.”
Sheila Cavanagh writes in “Living in a Digital World: Rethinking Peer
Review, Collaboration, and Open Access,” published in The Journal of
Digital Humanities Vol. 1, No. 4 Fall 2012
