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title: 'Behind the Will'
date: '2019-02-13T17:50:52-05:00'
permalink: /behind-the-will/
tags:
    - academia
---

I am honored that my colleagues in the College of Arts & Letters asked me to talk a bit about digital humanities and the role that it might play in reorienting the university toward the public good. We had a rather long conversation, more of which is represented in [the full story](http://www.cal.msu.edu/news/building-community-through-digital-humanities), but they wisely edited me down into a pithy (and beautiful; thanks, Pete!) minute-thirty:

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I’m grateful for the opportunity to think out loud a bit — and particularly just as [Generous Thinking](https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/generous-thinking) drops — about the ways the various pieces of my work work together.