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## Responses to Nan Z. Da's "The Digital Humanities Debacle" and "The Computational Case against Computational Literary Studies" ### Original articles Nan Z. Da, "[The Computational Case against Computational Literary Studies](https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/702594)," Spring 2019, *Critical Inquiry*. Nan Z. Da, "[The Digital Humanities Debacle](https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Digital-Humanities-Debacle/245986)," March 27, 2019, *The Chronicle of Higher Education*. ### Responses #### *Critical Inquiry* Online Forum "[Computational Literary Studies: A Critical Inquiry Online Forum](https://critinq.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/computational-literary-studies-a-critical-inquiry-online-forum/)" (April 1-3, 2019) "[More Responses to 'The Computational Case against Computational Literary Studies'](https://critinq.wordpress.com/2019/04/12/more-responses-to-the-computational-case-against-computational-literary-studies/)" (April 12, 2019) Featuring contributions from: Mark Andrew Algee-Hewitt, Katherine Bode, Sarah Brouillette, Edward Finn, Lauren Klein, Hoyt Long, Andrew Piper, Ted Underwood, Nan Z. Da, Stanley Fish, Taylor Arnold, and Duncan Buell. #### *Journal of Cultural Analytics* Andrew Piper, "[Do We Know What We Are Doing?](http://culturalanalytics.org/2019/04/do-we-know-what-we-are-doing/)" (April 1, 2019) Fotis Jannidis, "[On the Perceived Complexity of Literature: A Response to Nan Z. Da](https://culturalanalytics.org/2019/06/on-the-perceived-complexity-of-literature-a-response-to-nan-z-da/)" (June 17, 2019) Michael Gavin, "[Is There a Text in My Data? (Part 1): On Counting Words](https://culturalanalytics.org/2019/09/is-there-a-text-in-my-data-part-1-on-counting-words/)" (September 17, 2019) #### Other responses Ted Underwood, ["Dear Humanists: Fear Not the Digital Revolution"](https://www.chronicle.com/article/Dear-Humanists-Fear-Not-the/245987/) March 27, 2019. *The Chronicle of Higher Education*. William Benzon, "[On the direction of literary history: How should we interpret that 3300 node graph in Macroanalysis?](https://www.academia.edu/40550795/On_the_direction_of_literary_history_How_should_we_interpret_that_3300_node_graph_in_Macroanalysis_Version_2)" (draft) October 7, 2019. #### Did we miss any responses? Let us know! [@MIThyperstudio](https://twitter.com/mithyperstudio)