Discussion of Policies and Major Course Themes ... Read More
Discussion of Two Recent Perspectives on Digital Humanities ... Read More
Text Analysis Methods Workshop: Getting Started with Python, Git, and Github ... Read More
Slides for Week 1 ... Read More
HOMEWORK (in addition to readings): Create and Share Box.com Folder ... Read More
Jockers, Matthew, and Gabi Kiriloff. "Understanding Gender and Character Agency in the 19th Century Novel," The Journal of Cultural Analytics. Montreal, December, 2016. n.p. [Link]
Liu, Alan. "The Meaning of the Digital Humanities," PMLA. Vol. 128, No. 2, 2013. 409-423. [Link]
Mandell, Laura. "Gendering Digital Literary History: What Counts for Digital Humanities," A New Companion to Digital Humanities. Malden, John Wiley & Sons, 2016. 588-602. [Link]
Sign-up Sheet for Class Discussion Facilitators ... Read More
Text Analysis Methods Workshop 2: Using a Jupyter Notebook, Basic Python, an Example Script ... Read More
Brett, Megan R. "Topic Modeling: A Basic Introduction," Journal of Digital Humanities. Vol. 2, No. 1, 2012. n.p. [Link]
Schmidt, Ben. "Words Alone: Dismantling Topic Models in the Humanities," Journal of Digital Humanities. Vol. 2, No. 1, 2012. n.p. [Link]
Weingart, Scott B., and Elijah Meeks. "The Digital Humanities Contribution to Topic Modeling," Journal of Digital Humanities. Vol. 2 Winter, No. 1, 2012. n.p. [Link]
Recommended but Not Required: Underwood, Ted, and Andrew Goldstone. "The Quiet Transformations of Literary Studies: What Thirteen Thousand Scholars Could Tell Us," New Literary History. Volume 45, Number 3, Summer 2014 . 359-384. [Link]
Guest Speaker: Scott Weingart ... Read More
Text Analysis Methods Workshop 3: Python Fundamentals continued ... Read More
Drucker, Johanna. "Chapter Excerpt," Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge. Cambridge, MA, Harvard UP, 2014. 125-137. [Link]
D’Ignazio, Catherine, and Lauren F. Klein. "Feminist Data Visualization," IEEE VIS Conference. Baltimore, October, 2016. 1-5. [Link]
Galey, Alan, and Stan Ruecker. "How a Prototype Argues," Literary and Linguistic Computing. Vol. 25, No. 4, 2010. 405-424. [Link]
Guest Speaker: Alison Langmead ... Read More
Text Analysis Methods Workshop 4: Basics of Text Processing ... Read More
Turn in DH Code Analysis ... Read More
Ramsay, Stephen. "The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around; or, What You do with a Million Books," Pastplay: Teaching and Learning History with Technology. Ann Arbor, U of Michigan P, 2010. 111-120. [Link]
van Zundert, Joris J. "Screwmeneutics and Hermenumericals: The Computationality of Hermeneutics," A New Companion to Digital Humanities. Malden, John Wiley & Sons, 2016. 331-347. [Link]
Recommended but Not Required: Zalta, Edward N. et. al., eds. "Logical Empiricism," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, First published April 4, 2011, substantive revision April 5, 2017. n.p. [Link]
Text Analysis Methods Workshop 5: Part-of-Speech Tagging and Named Entity Recognition ... Read More
Archer, Dawn. "Data Mining and Word Frequency Analysis," Research Methods for Reading Digital Data in the Digital Humanities. Edinburgh, U of Edinburgh P, 2016. 72-92. [Link]
Ignatow, Gabe, and Rada Mihalcea. "The Philosophy and Logic of Text Mining" and "Research Design and Basic Tools," An Introduction to Text Mining: Research Design, Data Collection, and Analysis. Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage, 2018. 41-55 and 59-73. [Link]
Piper, Andrew. "There Will be Numbers," The Journal of Cultural Analytics. Montreal, May, 2016. n.p. [Link]
Text Analysis Methods Workshop 6: Working with Corpora and Datasets ... Read More
Turn in Proposal for Final Paper Assignment ... Read More
Bode, Katherine. "The Equivalence of 'Close' And 'Distant' Reading; Or, toward a New Object for Data-Rich Literary History," Modern Language Quarterly. Vol. 78, No. 1, 2017. 77-106. [Link]
Long, Hoyt, and Richard Jean So. "Literary Pattern Recognition: Modernism between Close Reading and Machine Learning," Critical Inquiry. Volume 42, Number 2, Winter 2016. 235-267. [Link]
Recommended but Not Required: Argamon, Shlomo, et. al. "Vive la Différence! Text Mining Gender Difference in French Literature," Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 3, No. 2, 2009. n.p. [Link]
Guest Speaker: Tatyana Gershkovich ... Read More
Text Analysis Methods Workshop 7: Dictionaries and Lexicons ... Read More
Discussion of Research Proposals ... Read More
Bamman, David, Sabrina Lee, and Ted Underwood. "The Transformation of Gender in English-Language Fiction," The Journal of Cultural Analytics. Montreal, February, 2018. n.p. [Link]
Drucker, Johanna. "Why Distant Reading Isn’t," PMLA. Vol. 132, No. 3, 2017. 628-635. [Link]
Piper, Andrew. "Think Small: On Literary Modeling," PMLA. Vol. 132, No. 3, 2017. 651-658. [Link]
Recommended but Not Required: Beckman, Milo. "These Are The Phrases Each GOP Candidate Repeats Most," FiveThirtyEight. 2016 Election, March 10, 2016. n.p. [Link]
Text Analysis Methods Workshop 8: Levenshtein distance and fuzzy matching ... Read More
Allison, Sarah et. al. "Style at the Scale of the Sentence," Stanford Literary Lab Pamphlet 5. Stanford, June, 2013. 1-30. [Link]
Blatt, Ben. "He Wrote, She Wrote," Nabokov's Favorite Word is Mauve. New York, Simon & Schuster, 2017. 31-58. [Link]
Wadsworth, Fabian B., Jérémie Vasseur, and David E. Damby. "Evolution of Vocabulary in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath," Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. Vol. 32, No. 1, September 2017. 660–671. [Link]
Recommended but Not Required: Holmes, David. "The Evolution of Stylometry in Humanities Scholarship," Literary and Linguistic Computing. Vol. 13, Issue 3, 1998. 111–117. [Link]
Text Analysis Methods Workshop 9: Collocations and N-grams ... Read More
Turn in Text Corpus for Final Paper Assignment ... Read More
Algee-Hewitt, Mark, and Mark McGurl. "Between Canon and Corpus: Six Perspectives on 20th-Century Novels," Stanford Literary Lab Pamphlet 8. Stanford, January, 2015. 1-29. [Link]
Bode, Katherine. "Thousands of Titles Without Authors: Digitized Newspapers, Serial Fiction, and the Challenges of Anonymity," Book History. Vol. 19, No. 1, 2016. 284-316. [Link]
Clement, Tanya E. "'A thing not beginning and not ending': Using Digital Tools to Distant Read Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans," Literary and Linguistic Computing. Vol. 23, No. 3, September 2008 . 361–81. [Link]
Recommended but Not Required: Parrish, Allison. "The Average Novel," NaNoGenMo2017. Github, November, 2017. n.p. [Link]
Text Analysis Methods Workshop 10: The vector space model and cosine similarity ... Read More
Isaac, Jessica. "Graphing the Archives of Nineteenth-Century Amateur Newspapers," Book History. Vol. 19, No. 1, 2016. 317-348. [Link]
Underwood, Ted. "The Life Cycles of Genres," The Journal of Cultural Analytics. Montreal, May, 2016. n.p. [Link]
Recommended but Not Required: Piper, Andrew. "Fictionality," The Journal of Cultural Analytics. Montreal, December, 2016. n.p. [Link]
Text Analysis Methods Workshop 11: TF-IDF and clustering ... Read More
Reagan, Andrew J., et. al. "The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes," EPJ Data Science. Vol. 5, Issue 31, 2016. 1-10. [Link]
Tatlock, Lynne et. al. "Crossing Over: Gendered Reading Formations at the Muncie Public Library, 1891-1902," The Journal of Cultural Analytics. Montreal, March, 2018. n.p. [Link]
Recommended but Not Required: Heuser, Ryan, Franco Moretti, Eric Steiner. "The Emotions of London," Stanford Literary Lab Pamphlet 13. Stanford, October, 2016. 1-10. [Link]
Text Analysis Methods Workshop 12: Topic Models and Word2vec ... Read More
Turn in Initial Results for Final Paper Assignment ... Read More
No Class -- Thanksgiving Break ... Read More
Edmondson, Chloe. "An Enlightenment Utopia: The Network of Sociability in Corinne," Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 11, No. 2, 2017. n.p.. [Link]
Warren, Christopher, et. al. "Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: A Statistical Method for Reconstructing Large Historical Social Networks," Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 10, No. 3, October 2016. n.p. [Link]
Recommended but Not Required: Granovetter, Mark S. "The Strength of Weak Ties," American Journal of Sociology. Volume 78, Number 6, May 1973. 1360-1380. [Link]
Text Analysis Methods Workshop 14: Machine learning classification (linear and logistic regression) ... Read More
Earhart, Amy. "Can Information Be Unfettered? Race and the New Digital Humanities Canon," Debates in the Digital Humanities. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2013. 309-318. [Link]
Risam, Roopika. "Beyond the Margins: Intersectionality and the Digital Humanities," Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 9, No. 2, 2015. n.p. [Link]
Recommended but Not Required: Wernimont, Jacqueline. "Whence Feminism? Assessing Feminist Interventions in Digital Literary Archives," Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 7, No. 1, 2013. n.p. [Link]
Text Analysis Methods Workshop 15: Network analysis and visualization ... Read More
Canceled: Houston, Natalie M. "Reading the Visual Page in the Digital Archive," Research Methods for Reading Digital Data in the Digital Humanities. Edinburgh, U of Edinburgh P, 2016. 36-50. [Link]
Canceled: Trettien, Whitney. "A Deep History of Electronic Textuality: The Case of Eng/ish Reprints Jhon Milton Areopagitica," Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 7, No. 1, 2013. n.p. [Link]
Reminder: Class Cancelled ... Final Papers Due by End of Day ... Read More