Video of My Talk on Geolocation at Illinois

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Apr 092013
 

I gave a talk on my recent work — titled “Where Was the American Renaissance: Computation, Space, and Literary History in the Civil War Era” — as part of the Uses of Scale planning meeting at Illinois earlier this month. Ted Underwood — convener of the meeting and driving force behind the Uses of Scale project — has posted a video of the event, which includes my talk as well as Ted’s extended intro and a follow-up round table discussion on future directions in literary studies.

The event was lovely; my thanks to Ted for the invitation, to the attendees for some very useful discussion, and to the Mellon Foundation and the University of Illinois for funding the Uses of Scale project, with which I’ve been involved as a co-PI over the past year.


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Books I Read in 2012

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Dec 312012
 

As in past years, here’s a list of the new (to me) fiction I read this year. Criticism and rereads are excluded.

  • Döblin, Alfred. Berlin Alexanderplatz. (1929) Feel like I should have gotten more from this.
  • Farrell, J.G. Troubles. (1970) Not a fan.
  • Gass, William H. The Tunnel. (1995) Equal parts intriguing and frustrating.
  • Hamid, Mohsin. The Reluctant Fundamentalist. (2007) Of some professional interest re: memoir-like fiction.
  • Dyer, Geoff. Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi. (2009)
  • Houellebecq, Michel. The Map and the Territory. (2010)
  • Banks, Russell. Lost Memory of Skin. (2011)
  • Phillips, Arthur. The Tragedy of Arthur. (2011) I like Phillips a lot, but my interest waned.
  • Russell, Karen. Swamplandia! (2011) Taught this; an interesting failure, I think.
  • Whitehead, Colson. Zone One. (2011) Taught this, too. Liked it even more after reading Andy Hoberek’s piece on it in CL.
  • Johnson, Adam. The Orphan Master’s Son. (2012) Liked this.
  • Marcus, Ben. The Flame Alphabet. (2012) Didn’t do much for me; too precious by half.
  • Miller, Madeline. The Song of Achilles. (2012) Am liking this a lot.
  • Stein, Leigh. The Fallback Plan. (2012)

An enjoyable year, as always. I particularly liked Zone One and Song of Achilles (the latter of which I’m still working on). Not sure where I’ll start in 2013; I’m a couple of chapters into The Book of Happenstance by Ingrid Winterbach (which I like so far) and I have a handful of others waiting on my Kindle.


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Greetings, HASTAC Scholars 2013!

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Oct 022012
 

 

Hello, HASTAC Scholars! I’m excited to be included in such a diverse and dynamic group, and I look forward to participating in a year of collaboration, development, and experimentation. In what follows I’ll introduce myself and my research interests and projects. I discovered HASTAC through and decided to apply for its Scholars program because of the work of a Scholar from last year's class, whom I was lucky enough to meet at a conference that she organized this past summer.

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Race and TEI

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Sep 252012
 

Scholars, I need some feedback. Who else is marking up racial elements using TEI? 

Power dynamics stemming from race and gender are the basis of my research within 19th century literature, and I've had difficulty with how to mark race, words and phrases that indicate race without referencing it directly, and racial slurs. I am planning to present a paper on this topic, so I would like to hear how other people have addressed these issues.

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