Digital technologies have opened up new possibilities for humanities research: from reading a million books to reconstructing ancient sites. These technologies necessitate humanists learning new skills, that in turn, provide new methods for analysing the historical record: from non-invasive techniques to read the text on ancient scrolls so badly damaged by fire that to unroll them would destroy them, to understanding world responses to current events as they unfoldon Twitter.
This talk will explore these new methods as well as the difficulties in integrating them into the traditional humanities curriculum and systems of rewards. It will end by presenting two case studies of humanities research fully integrating digital humanities methods: The Letters of 1919 and Contested Memories: The Battle of Mount Street Bridge.

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Susan Schreibman is Professor in Digital Humanities at Maynooth University and Director of An ForasFeasa, the Humanities Institute. Previously she was the Long Room HubSenior Lecturer of Digital Humanities at Trinity College Dublin, founding Director of the Digital Humanities Observatory (an all-Ireland Digital Humanities Centre), Assistant Dean for Digital Collections and Research, University of Maryland Libraries, and Assistant Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.
Professor Schreibman is the Founding Editor of The Letters of 1916 and The Thomas MacGreevy Archive. Her publications include Thomas MacGreevy: A Critical Reappraisal (Bloomsbury 2013), A Companion to Digital Humanities (Blackwell, 2004) and A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (Blackwell, 2008). She was the founding Editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative. Dr Schreibman is the Irish representative and co-Director of VCC2: Education and Research, for DARIAH a European infrastructure in Digital Humanities. She is a Co-PI of the NeDimah Methods Network.