Lecture: Discovery and Digital Curation of Textual Archives
Category: the Townsend Center for the Humanities
Lecture: Discovery and Digital Curation of Textual Archives
Seminar: Characterization and Gender, 1800-2008
Ted Underwood teaches in the School of Information Sciences and the English Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He was trained as a Romanticist and now applies machine learning to large digital collections. His most recent book, Distant Horizons: Digital Evidence and Literary Change (Univ of Chicago, Spring 2019) addresses new perspectives opened up by large digital libraries.
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Lecture: Modeling Perspective and Parallax to Tell the Story of Genre Fiction
Seminar | Quantifying without Computers
Laura McGrath is the Associate Director of the Stanford University Literary Lab and a postdoctoral fellow in English. Her primary interests lie in computational approaches to post45 American fiction. She is at work on a manuscript, a literary history of the agent, entitled Middlemen: Making Literature in the Age of Multimedia Conglomerates. She is also working on a second, trade book called Comps: The Big Data Behind the Book Business.
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Lecture | Corporate Style: The Effect of Comp Titles on Contemporary Literature
Digital Humanities Working Group
The DH Working Group began in 2011 as a place to facilitate interdisciplinary conversations around topics in the Digital Humanities (broadly defined). We welcome participants from all disciplinary backgrounds, beginners and experts in digital skills, students, faculty, and staff.
Seminar: What Can Machine Learning Teach Us About Literature?
Lecture: Corpus Poetics: Thinking the Writer's Career with Data