As previously discussed, although there is no singular, agreed-upon definition of Digital Humanities within the literature, there are key themes that most scholars touch upon in their writing on the subject. As noted in the introduction to this project,\u00a0Kathleen Fitzpatrick offers the following working definition of the Digital Humanities: \u201ca nexus of fields within which scholars use computing technologies to investigate the kinds of questions that are traditional to the humanities\u201d (Fitzpatrick 2012). Key to her definition is the idea of harnessing technology for humanities inquiry, which is the basic principle at the core of Digital Humanities research and teaching techniques. Building on this idea, scholar Luke Waltzer (2012) sees the Digital Humanities as creating the opportunity for openness, community, and collaboration within humanities academic work. In these definitions, Digital Humanities are not seen as their own, separate academic discipline. Instead, as argued by Erik Shell (2014), given the interdisciplinary nature of the field, the Digital Humanities cannot be and should not be marked as their own unique field. As highlighted by these scholars\u2019 respective definitions, the Digital Humanities are more often viewed as a set of techniques or approaches that can be applied to any field of study within the Humanities rather than a singular discipline with its own lines of inquiry. The interviewees from McMaster spoke to the ideas brought up in the literature and offered new creative insights.<\/p>\n