Welcome our new Deputy Secretary/Secretary, Claudia Berger! Claudia Berger (they/she) is the Digital Humanities Librarian at Sarah Lawrence College and Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute teaching digital humanities in the School of Information. Their research centers around critical making in digital humanities research and digital environmental humanities. They also serve as an editor of dh+lib. When not doing ..read more

Vice President/President Elect 1. Liz Grumbach and Pamella Lach (co-Vice President/President Elect team) Bios: Liz Grumbach (she/her/hers) is the Director of Digital Humanities and Research in the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University, occupying the ancestral territories of the O’Odham and Piipaash peoples. At ASU Lincoln, an organization committed to exploring participatory strategies for ..read more

We’re pleased to share nominees for the ACH 2024 Election! Vice President/President Elect 1. Liz Grumbach and Pamella Lach (co-Vice President/President Elect team) Bios: Liz Grumbach (she/her/hers) is the Director of Digital Humanities and Research in the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University, occupying the ancestral territories of the O’Odham and Piipaash ..read more

The ACH is leaving Twitter: we’re locking our Twitter account, and will no longer post, read, nor reply there. ACH members and the broader digital humanities community can find us on Bluesky (bsky.app/profile/ach.bsky.social), Mastodon (hcommons.social/@ach), our website (ach.org); and for ACH members, our newsletter (members.ach.org/join). Why we’re leaving Twitter We leave Twitter because of its ..read more

For our session at the 2024 MLA Convention, ACH will feature presentations related to the use of spatial technologies as they broadly pertain to research and teaching related to language, literature, and related fields. At their most basic, spatial technologies offer a way to bring in useful context when researching or teaching literature. But to ..read more

The Association for Computers and the Humanities is sad to share the news of Angel David Nieves’ passing on December 5, 2023. Angel served on the ACH Executive Council from 2019-2021. While on the exec, Angel was involved with the mentoring program. Most recently, Angel was Dean’s Professor of Public and Digital Humanities and Professor ..read more

The ACH seeks someone to participate in ACH’s leadership and the broader work of the ACH Executive Council, while serving as a key contributor to keeping the ACH running as ACH Deputy Secretary/Secretary. You are very likely eligible! Our key needs are willingness to contribute effort, and enthusiasm for involvement with DH and the ACH—whether ..read more

As announced at the ACH 2023 conference, ACH is soliciting working group proposals for the upcoming academic year. We’ve posted guidelines for proposals here, along with more information about the benefits of forming a working group. Each working group must have co-chairs who are ACH members. We hope that the ACH working group framework will ..read more

The Association for Computers and the Humanities is sad to share the news of David L. Hoover’s passing on May 25, 2023. David served on the ACH Executive Board from 2005 to 2008, and as Vice-President in 2006-2007. For decades, he was among the most faithful presences at the annual DH conference (remarkably, he presented ..read more

Computational research techniques such as text and data mining (TDM) hold tremendous opportunities for researchers across the disciplines, with the digital humanities at the forefront of work to build large corpora of creative works to gain better understandings into concepts such as how gender, race, and identity are shared over time. Unfortunately, legal uncertainty associated ..read more