Driven by the debate between "specialist" and "generalist" methods of analysis in the study of world literature, we embarked upon a case study consisting of a textual analysis of the dialogical relationship between patient and therapist in "factional" Irish and English novels. By appropriately encoding text passages and using suitable visualization techniques, we aspired to provide a methodology that could be utilized at both national and international levels of study. This paper will argue that both the findings generated by the software developed, and those discovered through the development process, serve to visibly enhance both traditional textual scholarship and work in the field of Digital Humanities. The INKE Research Group comprises over 35 researchers (and their research assistants and postdoctoral fellows) at more than 20 universities in Canada, England, the United States, and Ireland, and across 20 partners in the public and private sectors. INKE is a large-scale, long-term, interdisciplinary project to study the future of books and reading, supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, as well as contributions from participating universities and partners, and bringing together activities associated with book history and textual scholarship, user experience studies, interface design, and prototyping of digital reading environments. Introduction This article provides an individual reflection on the interdisciplinary team research conducted by a group of two literary scholars and computer scientists for a project presented at DH2010 (Keating, Howell, & Kelleher, 2010). 2 Driven by the debate between "specialist" and "generalist" methods of analysis in the study of world literature, we embarked upon a case study consisting of a textual analysis of the dialogical relationship between patient and therapist in "factional" Irish and English novels. By appropriately encoding text passages and using suitable visualization techniques, we aspired to provide a methodology that could be utilized at both national and international levels of study. Although driven by a specific research question, in embarking upon our project our concern was as much with the processes, successes, and challenges of this cross-disciplinary collaboration, as with the results yielded. 3 This paper will argue that both the findings generated by the software developed, and those discovered through the development process, serve to visibly enhance both traditional textual scholarship as well as work in the field of Digital Humanities.
