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Disrupting the Digital Humanities seeks to rethink how we map disciplinary terrain by directly confronting the gatekeeping impulse of many other so-called field-defining collections. What is most beautiful about the work of the Digital Humanities is exactly the fact that it can’t be tidily anthologized. In fact, the desire to neatly define the Digital Humanities (to filter the DH-y from the DH) is a way of excluding the radically diverse work that actually constitutes the field. This collection, then, works to push and prod at the edges of the Digital Humanities — to open the Digital Humanities rather than close it down. Ultimately, it’s exactly the fringes, the outliers, that make the Digital Humanities both lovely and rigorous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection does not constitute yet another reservoir for the new Digital Humanities canon. Rather, our aim is less about assembling content as it is about creating new conversations. Building a truly communal space for the digital humanities requires that we all approach that space with a commitment to: 1) creating open and non-hierarchical dialogues; 2) championing non-traditional work that might not otherwise be recognized through conventional scholarly channels; 3) amplifying marginalized voices; 4) advocating for students and learners; and 5) sharing generously to support the work of our peers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTABLE OF CONTENTS \/\/\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCathy N. Davidson, “Preface: Difference is Our Operating System”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDorothy Kim and Jesse Stommel, “Disrupting the Digital Humanities: An Introduction”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI. Etymology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdeline Koh, “A Letter to the Humanities: DH Will Not Save You”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAudrey Watters, “The Myth and the Millennialism of ‘Disruptive Innovation’”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeg Worley, “The Rhetoric of Disruption: What are We Doing Here?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJesse Stommel, “Public Digital Humanities”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eII. Identity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Hsy and Rick Godden, “Universal Design and Its Discontents”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAngel Nieves, “DH as ‘Disruptive Innovation’ for Restorative Social Justice: Virtual Heritage and 3D Reconstructions of South Africa’s Township Histories”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnnemarie Perez, “Lowriding through the Digital Humanities”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIII. 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