Title

Digital Scholarship: Current Challenges in Hiring, Promotion, and Tenure

Authors

Bridget Whearty, Binghamton University (SUNY, State University of New York)Follow

Document Type

Presentation

Publication Date

10-11-2019

Keywords

digital scholarship, digital humanities, books of hours, promotion, tenure, hiring

Abstract

This is the performance script and slides (embedded) of my Oct 11, 2019 talk given at the University of Albany Library's Digital Scholarship Conference--Digital Scholarship: Opportunities and Challenges (see https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/dsconf/).

This talk examines how local conditions can strongly discourage pretenure faculty from engaging in innovative digital work. Arguing that individual faculty, larger institutions, local communities, and the humanities themselves lose out when digital scholarship is not adequately valued, I offer an "alternative universe tenure timeline," outlining some of the work I would have done in the past five years if digital scholarship was valued for promotion and tenure.

Recommended Citation

Whearty, Bridget, "Digital Scholarship: Current Challenges in Hiring, Promotion, and Tenure" (2019). English, General Literature, and Rhetoric Faculty Scholarship. 6.
https://orb.binghamton.edu/english_fac/6