Introduction: American Quarterly in the Digital Sphere
Introduction: American Quarterly in the Digital Sphere is a scholarly work, published in 2018 in ''American Quarterly''. The main subjects of the publication include power, media studies, caucus, digital humanities, politics, political science, online game, American studies, disappointment, scholarship, humanities, sociology, and narratology. However, the initial manifestation of the "Digital Projects Review" struck many scholars as being out of step with the vibrant and innovative American studies approaches to digital humanities that have emerged over the past two decades.1 This frustration found an outlet on social media, and on the DH Caucus email list, which eventually led the six of us to propose this special issue, "Toward a Critically Engaged Digital Practice: American Studies and the Digital Humanities." The diversity of institutional affiliations, research perspectives, disciplinary backgrounds, and professional roles within the authors' End Page 361 group of coeditors has enabled a collaboration that, authors hope, both reflects and advances the synergies of exciting new work emerging at the intersections of American studies and digital humanities, as highlighted in the following pages.