Manifesto for the humanities : : transforming doctoral education in good enough times / / Sidonie Smith.

• Superior document: Digital Humanities
• VerfasserIn: Smith, Sidonie,
• Place / Publishing House: Ann Arbor : : University of Michigan Press,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Digital humanities (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (239 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

After a remarkable career in higher education, Sidonie Smith offers Manifesto for the Humanities as a reflective contribution to the current academic conversation over the place of the Humanities in the 21st century. Her focus is on doctoral education and opportunities she sees for its reform.Grounding this manifesto in background factors contributing to current "crises" in the humanities, Smith advocates for a 21st century doctoral education responsive to the changing ecology of humanistic scholarship and teaching. She elaborates a more expansive conceptualization of coursework and dissertation, a more robust, engaged public humanities, and a more diverse, collaborative, and networked sociality.

Table of Contents

Contents; Introduction; Part I: The Times Are Good Enough; Realities on the Ground; What Is to Be Done?; Part II: The Everyday Life of the Humanities Now; The Distributed University; Knowledge Environments; The New Media and Modes of Scholarly Communication; Going Open; Learning, Pedagogy, and Curricular Environments; or, How We Teach Now; The Possibly Posthuman Humanities Scholar; Manifesto for a Sustainable Humanities; Part III: Toward a 21st-Century Doctoral Education; A Time of Troubles, a Time of Opportunity; Breathing Life into the Dissertation; Responding to Counterarguments

A 21st-Century Doctoral EducationThe Upside of Change; Coda; Notes; Bibliography; Index