Intersectionality in Digital Humanities

Coined by Kimberle Crenshaw in the late1980s, intersectionality makes the case thatdimensions of identity, such as gender andrace, cannot be understood in isolation fromeach other because they work together toshape lived experience.

As digitalhumanities has expanded in scope andcontent, questions of how to negotiate theoverlapping influences of race, class, gender,sexuality, nation, and other dimensions thatshape data, archives, and methodologieshave come to the fore.

Taking up theseconcerns, the authors in this volume explore their effects on the methodological, political,and ethical practices of digital humanities. Essays examine intersectionality from arange of positions: the influence ofoverlapping identities on scholars within thedigital humanities community; how the fieldsin which they work are subject to competingtensions created by intersecting powerstructures within digital humanities andacademia; and the methodologicalpossibilities and scholarly potential forintersectionality as a framing theory in digitalhumanities scholarship.