Abstract
In her much-cited blog post of July 26, 2011, Melissa Terras writes:
In many regards, “Big Tent Digital Humanities” is a nice concept. It is true that the DH community is considerably more open, approachable, welcoming, and willing to embrace new approaches than many traditional areas of humanities academia. Big Tent DH, then, is an ecumenical approach, whilst giving the freedom for individual scholars to explore their own interests, wherever in the research and teaching spectrum they lie. (Terras, “Peering inside the Big Tent”)
However, writes Terras,
Despite all this, there will be a lot of folk left peering into