Fred Gibbs

Fred Gibbs is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University and Director of Digital Scholarship at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. His current research explores late medieval and early modern understandings of poison, as well as the role of critical theory in the digital humanities. He teaches courses on digital history and various topics in the history of science, medicine, and technology.

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Critical Discourse in Digital Humanities

My interest in the role and nature of criticism in the digital humanities grows out of a question that Alan Liu recently asked: Where is the cultural criticism in the digital humanities?

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