Introduction: Media Histories, Media Archaeologies, and the Politics and Genealogies of the Digital Humanities

Dorothy Kim teaches medieval literature at Brandeis University. Her research focuses on race, gender, digital humanities, medieval women’s literary cultures, medievalism, Jewish/Christian difference, book history, digital media, and the alt-right. Her book, Jewish/Christian Entanglements: Ancrene Wisse and Its Material Worlds, is set to be published with the University of Pennsylvania Press. She has a forthcoming book, The Alt-Medieval: Digital Whiteness and Medieval Studies from the University of Minnesota Press in 2021. She has received fellowships from the SSHRC, Ford Foundation, Fulbright, Mellon, and AAUW. She is the co-project director in the NEH-funded Scholarly Editions and Translations project An Archive of Early Middle English. She is a project co-director for the Global Middle Ages Project (http://globalmiddleages.org) and is scheduled to co-write a book with Lynn Ramey (Vanderbilt University) on Medieval Global Digital Humanities for Cambridge UP for 2021. She has co-edited two collections in the Digital Humanities. The first collection, co-edited with Jesse Stommel (University of Mary Washington), on Disrupting the Digital Humanities (punctum books, 2018), discusses the marginal methodologies and critical diversities in the Digital Humanities. This current volume is her second edited DH collection. She has an edited volume in the Cultural History of Race series (the Cultural History of Race 1350–1550) with Kim Coles (University of Maryland) forthcoming in October 2021 at Bloomsbury. She is the associate editor for the Journal of Early Middle English and the co-editor for the medieval to early modern section of Literature Compass.