1. Bringing Scholars and
Corpora Together
DM2E Kick-Off Meeting
1 March 2012
Dr Susan Schreibman
Trinity Long Room Hub Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities
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Dr Susan Schreibman
Trinity Long Room Hub Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities
4. First of all, it is a kind of work, a labor requiring
large amounts of time and resources. This labor is
compensated as such, by a salary. Second, it is a
disciplinary activity, that is, it is governed by
conventions of interpretation and protocols of
research developed over many decades. These
techniques take years to acquire . . . Third,
professional reading is vigilant; it stands back from
the experience of pleasure in reading [...] so that the
experience of reading does not begin and end in
the pleasure of consumption, but gives rise to a
certain sustained reflection. And fourth, this reading
is a communal practice. Even when the scholar
reads in privacy, this act of reading is connected in
numerous ways to communal scenes; and it is often
dedicated to the end of a public and publishable
“reading”
Dr Susan Schreibman
Trinity Long Room Hub Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities
