Corpus Poetics: Thinking the Writer's Career with Data
Andrew Piper
Thursday, September 20th, 2018
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall (Geballe Room)
http://bit.ly/corpus-poetics
Please join us for discussions around the intersections of data and literature with Andrew Piper, Professor of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University and Director of the .txtLAB. Professor Piper will speak on "Corpus Poetics: Thinking the Writer's Career with Data" at 5:30pm, and he will also host an open seminar on the same date, "What Can Machine Learning Teach Us About Literature?" from 11-12:30.
Andrew Piper is a Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University. He directs .txtLAB, a digital humanities laboratory at McGill, and is editor of the new web-based, open-access journal, CA: Journal of Cultural Analytics. He is the author of over two-dozen articles in major academic and popular journals, as well as the books Dreaming in Books (2009; Winner of the MLA Prize for a First Book), Book Was There (2012), Interacting with Print (2017), and, most recently, Enumerations: Data and Literary Study (2018).
Sponsored by the UC Berkeley Department of Comparative Literature, the School of Information, Digital Humanities at Berkeley, The Digital Humanities Working Group, the D-Lab, the Townsend Center for the Humanities, and the UC Berkeley Library