Humanities Scholarship

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
But come . . .
Hamlet

General Humanities Resources

• ACLS American Council of Learned Societies
• AHA American Historical Association
• APA American Philological Association
• Arts and Humanities Data Service
• ADE - The Association of Documentary Editing
• The British Academy
• BUBL LINK Humanities, a national information service for higher education in the U.K.
• CFHSS-FCSH, The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences - Fédération Canadienne des Sciences Humaines
• The Digital Cultures Project, University of California Multi-Campus Research Group
• Electronic Literature Organization, To facilitate and promote the writing, publishing, and reading of literature in electronic media
• Humanities Resources, maintained by Yale University Library
• HUMBUL, Humanities Bulletin Board at Oxford University
• The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• Matrix, based at Michigan State University and devoted to the application of new technologies in humanities and social science teaching and research
  • H-Net, Online resources for Humanities and Social Sciences, maintained at Michigan State University
  • H-NCC - The National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History
• MHRA, Modern Humanities Research Association, United Kingdom
• MLA, The Modern Language Association of America
• NEH, National Endowment for the Humanities
• NINCH: The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage
  • Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials
  • Copyright Town Meetings
• OAH, Organization of American Historians
• The Society for Textual Scholarship
  • TEXT
• SSHRC, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
• Voice of the Shuttle: Humanities Resources

Humanities Computing

• ACH The Association for Computers and the Humanities
• ADHO The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
  • DHQ Digital Humanities Quarterly
• Association of Internet Researchers
• ALLC Association for Literary & Linguistic Computing
• CCH Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London
  • Seminar in Humanities Computing
• CETH The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities
  • SGML Resources
  • XML Resources
  • Plain and Encoded Electronic Texts: a Taxonomy and Guidelines for Evaluation
• CHASS Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Toronto
  • Computing in the Humanities Working Papers
  • CCH Software Archive
• Computers and the Humanities, the official journal of The Association for Computers and the Humanities
• Computing in the Humanities, maintained by Jack Lynch at the University of Pennsylvania
• Electronic Text and Humanities Computing Centres
• Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Site, maintained by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum at the University of Virginia
• HEML, The Historical Event Markup and Linking project provides a means of coordinating and navigating disparate historical materials on the internet.
• Humanist Discussion Group
• IATH Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia
  • Projects, and works in progress
  • Tools
• MITH: Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
• NINES, a networked interface for nineteenth-century electronic scholarship
• the nora project, advanced data mining of humanties content
• Online Databases Demo
• Oxford Humanities Computing Unit [ceased operations, 4/15/2002]
  • CTI Textual Studies [closed in 2000]
• Oxford Text Archive
• TAPoR, Text Analysis Portal for Research at McMaster University
• Text Technology, a journal dedicated to computer technologies and their applications to text
• University of California eScholarship Repository, a central location for depositing pre-publication scholarship
• UCLA Digital Humanities Center
• More E-Text and Library Sites

Humanities Computing: Papers, Discussions, Conferences

• Humanities Computing, Willard McCarty, Preliminary draft entry for The The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, New York: Dekker, 2003
• What is Humanities Computing?, Toward a Definition of the Field, by Dr. Willard McCarty, Center for Computing in the Humanities, Kings's College, London
  • We would know how we know what we know: Responding to the computational transformation of the humanities, by Willard McCarty
  • The Scholarly Environment of Humanities Computing: A Reaction to McCarty
• A Roadmap for Humanities Computing
• "Guidelines for Evaluating Computer-Related Work in the Modern Languages" and "The MLA Statement on Computer Support" ADFL Bulletin 28, no. 3 (Spring 1997): 50-52
• A Computer is Not a Typewriter, or Getting Right with Information Technology in the Humanities, by Stanley N. Katz, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University Lecture in the Digital Directions Speakers Series, University of Virginia, 4 February 1999
• Documenting the Reinvention of Text: The Importance of Failure, by John Unsworth, JEP 3.2
• Humanities computing: formal methods, experimental practice, a one-day colloquium held at King's College London, May 13, 2000
• The Semantic Web by Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, and Ora Lassila, in Scientific American, May 2001
• Born-Again Bits, A Framework for Migrating Electronic Literature, By Alan Liu, David Durand, Nick Montfort, Merrilee Proffitt, Liam R. E. Quin, Jean-Hugues Réty, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, August 5, 2005
• Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities, sponsored by the University of Virginia and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, September 28-30, 2005

Humanities Resources Online

• Classical
  • L'Année Philologique, International Database of Classical Bibliography
  • Argos, a limited area search engine for the ancient and medieval worlds
  • Bryn Mawr Classical Review
  • The Chicago Homer, a multilingual database
  • De Imperatoribus Romanis, an online encyclopedia of Roman Emperors
  • STOA, providing a resource for collaborative scholarship and electronic publication
    • METIS: A QTVR Interface for Greek Archaeological Sites: You want to see something cool?
    • The Suda On Line Project
    • New Commentaries on Cicero's Letters
  • Corinth Computer Project
  • Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome
  • The Duke Papyrus Archive
  • Archive of Papers and Watermarks in Greek Manuscripts, produced by Robert W. Allison, Bates College
  • Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology Server, University of Michigan
  • The Perseus Project
  • TLG The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
  • Project Libellus
  • Forum of Trajan in Rome, sponsored by The Getty Education Institute and others
  • Pompeii Forum Project, University of Virginia
  • Who's Who in Ovid's Metamorphoses, The Analytical Onomasticon Project
    • An Analytical Onomasticon to the Metamorphoses of Ovid
  • The Vergil Home Page
  • Library of Congress Resources for Greek and Latin Classics
  • Study Guide to Wheelock Latin by Dale A Grote
  • Library of Congress Vatican Exhibit
  • PRAP: Pylos Regional Archaeological Project
  • The Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit, and several others.
  • The Jigsaw Puzzle Problem Revisited (Dead Sea Scrolls and Computers)
  • Resources for Classical and Medieval Studies
• Medieval
  • The Medieval Academy of America
  • The Confessions of Augustine: electronic edition
  • The Digital Scriptorium, A Prototype Image Database & Visual Union Catalog of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
    • Transcription DTD provides a set of XML tags for the transcription of medieval manuscripts, for use either with excerpts (e.g., transcripts of individual pages) or with full transcripts of an entire manuscript
  • The Durham Liber Vitae Project, a unique manuscript from ninth-century Northumbria with later additions made at Durham Cathedral Priory
  • Labyrinth: Medieval Resources by WWW at Georgetown University
  • Old English Corpus Online
  • The Heroic Age, an online journal
  • The Middle English Compendium, University of Michigan
  • Middle English at The University of Virginia
  • Records of Early English Drama (REED)
  • Medieval Drama Links, a personal selection by Sydney Higgins
  • Digital Dante
  • DanteNet, Online Resources for Dante Scholars provide by the Dante Society of America
    • Dartmouth Dante Project [Telnet: At the prompt type "Connect DANTE" then press Enter]
  • Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350-1485)
    • Geoffrey Chaucer
    • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • Parzival-Projekt, an electronic edition of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival
  • TEAMS Middle English Texts
  • PhiloBiblon — a bio-bibliographical database of early texts produced in the Iberian Peninsula
  • Les Tres riches heures du Duc de Berry
• Renaissance
  • Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership
  • Renaissance Electronic Texts (RET)
  • The Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake, at the Library of Congress
  • The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
  • Renaissance Forum
  • Alciato's Emblematum Liber
  • Galileo Project
  • Montaigne Studies
  • Early Modern Literary Studies
  • Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
  • Spenser Home Page
  • The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe, an electronic edition
  • Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
  • Shakespeare Web
  • Are There Ciphers in Shakespeare?, by Penn Leary
    • Decimals and Logarithms in the Works?
  • The John Donne Society
  • The Donne Variorum Web Site
  • Digital Donne
  • John Donne Journal
  • English Literature and Religion
  • English Literature: Early 17th Century (1603-1660)
    • Francis Bacon: Resources
    • John Donne: Resources
    • John Milton: Resources
  • Milton Reading Room, Dartmouth College
  • The Milton-L Home Page
  • The Milton Quarterly
  • The Milton Review
  • Renaissance Society of America
  • South Central Renaissance Conference
    • Explorations in Renaissance Culture
  • The Hakluyt Society
• Et Cetera
  • Astrolabe, Elle est constituée d'articles indépendants reliés entre eux et reliés à l'Internet par des liens hypertextuels.
  • Esoterica: The Journal of Esoteric Studies
  • Eighteenth-Century Resources, maintained by Jack Lynch at Rutgers University, Newark Campus
    • The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual
  • C18-L's Selected Readings, an interdisciplinary bibliography of eighteenth-century studies covering the "long 18th century" (1660-1830)
  • "Pope and the Allegorical Mode", an experiment in html
  • Online Concordance to the Electronic Edition of The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, ed. David V. Erdman (1988)
  • The Blake Archive at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia
  • Lyrical Ballads
  • Keats-Shelley Journal Home Page
  • The Proceeings of the Old Bailey, London, 1674-1834
  • Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine
  • Romantic Circles, Byron, Keats, the Shelleys, and their contemporaries
  • The Victorian Web, maintained by George P. Landow
  • Victoria Research Web, maintained by Patrick Leary, History Department, Indiana University
  • Walt Whitman Archive
  • The Henry James Scholar's Guide to Web Sites
  • Dickinson Electronic Archives
  • The Ambrose Bierce Site
    • The Devil's Dictionary, Bierce's masterpiece
    • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge The award-winning film based on Bierce's story — watch it now!
  • Cather Archive
  • Making of America, a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction
  • ephilosopher.com
  • The American Studies Program, at the University of Virginia
  • British poetry E-Text project, at the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia
  • T.S. Eliot at Project Bartleby
    • Prufrock and Other Observations
  • IRITH: Irish Resources in the Humanities
  • Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature: An Overview, site maintained by George P. Landow
  • The Cyberspace and Critical Theory Overview
  • Literary Resources, maintained by Jack Lynch at Rutgers University, Newark Campus
  • LITPAGE, resources for readers, writers, students, and teachers of literature
  • Art History Resources, maintained by Yale University Library
  • Art Source web server
  • Godey's Ladies Book
  • PHRASEOLOGY: A Catalogue of Multilingual Resources on the Internet
  • Academic Dialogue on Applied Ethics at Carnegie Mellon University
  • College and University Home Pages
  • American Studies Crossroads Project
  • Jamestown Colony and Fort
  • National Council for the Social Studies
  • Art on Film Online, affiliated with the School of Information & Library Science (SILS) at Pratt Institute
  • Scholarly Societies across the World
  • TELA/Scholars Press Web Site, includes links to Scholarly Societies
  • ABES: Annotated Bibliography for English Studies
  • Lucid Mapping and Codex Transformations in the Z-Buffer, some experimental VRML texts by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
  • Plain English Campaign
  • Common Errors in English, maintained by Paul Brians, Washington State University
  • Grammar and Style Notes, by Jack Lynch, Rutgers University, Newark Campus
  • World Wide Words: Exploring the English Language, Michael Quinion's Language Pages

Humanities Centers

• Humanities Research Centres, King's College, London
• Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes
  • The Center for the Humanities at the Oregon State University, Corvalis
  • The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley
  • The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin
  • The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
  • The Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas
  • The National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
  • The Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois
• The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, District of Columbia
• Winterthur Museum, Library, and Garden, Winterthur, Delaware

English Department Links

• English Department Home Pages Worldwide maintained by David L. Hoover at New York University
• English at Johns Hopkins University
• English Language and Literature at The University of Maryland, College Park
• Department of English at The University of Texas
• Web Resources for the Study of English, maintained by Paul Brians, Washington State University

The above collection of scholarly resources is no longer being actively maintained.