Emily Hind

  

I am a passionate researcher of literature, film, and other cultural phenomena related to Mexico. My research seeks to connect matters of piracy/copyright, drug law and lawlessness, bureaucracy and sexism, and all too many more areas of interdisciplinary thought. The need to defend the role of the humanities in commenting on these complex and intertwining issues seems crucial. Only a matter of days ago, the Mexican federal government eliminated scholarships through the CONACYT system for graduate studies in the Humanities. Only graduate students in STEM fields will receive the scholarships now, and it seems a death sentence for graduate programs in the humanities in Mexico. Although the U.S. does not yet face this gloomy situation, it is vital that we support a conversation sooner rather than later about how the "digital" humanities talks about the humanities themselves. Without the humanities, digital and otherwise, we are lost. The Thatcamp interests me because I want to listen to how scholars of the digital humanities promote their interests, and I want to encourage this conversation to avoid language that undercuts the overall endeavor of non-STEM critique.