The Song of the Digital Humanists

To the same tune as “Errantry”:

I am the very model of a modern dig'tal humanist.

— Jacob T. Levy (@jtlevy) October 18, 2017

My software parses data novelistic and voluminous

— Kieran Healy (@kjhealy) October 18, 2017

I know the keywords vital and I search the texts historical

— Natalie Brender (@NatalieBrender) October 18, 2017

For evidence of shifts of form in genres categorical

— Kieran Healy (@kjhealy) October 18, 2017

I know my methods irritate established new historicists
Provoking them to write Op-Eds dyspeptic and quite moralist

— Kieran Healy (@kjhealy) October 18, 2017

But though they write my coding off as empty and reductionist
I'd rather read more Python than some bloody deconstructionist

— Kieran Healy (@kjhealy) October 18, 2017

For my bibliometric knowledge, though I’m tech-y and adventury,
Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century;

— Natalie Brender (@NatalieBrender) October 18, 2017

But still, in matters data-rich, prosaic and quite numinous
I am the very model of a modern dig’tal humanist.

— Natalie Brender (@NatalieBrender) October 18, 2017