Apr
29
2016
The University of Chicago will be hosting a public workshop on “The Impact of the Digital on Japanese Studies” on November 11-12, 2016. The goal of the workshop is to bring together a variety of Japan scholars to consider how digital data and computational methods are changing the ways we organize and analyze cultural and […]
Nov
13
2014
On May 22-23, 2015, the Global Literary Networks group will host a major conference at the University of Chicago called “Cultural Analytics: Computational Approaches to the Study of Culture.” The event will bring together faculty and graduate students working at the intersection of literary history and applied computational analysis. This field has been growing for […]
Apr
02
2014
On May 9th, the Global Literary Networks team will host a one-day conference bringing together new scholarship on the history and sociology of global culture. The conference highlights research that cuts across the traditional division of qualitative methods (hermeneutics, historicism) from quantitative or data-driven ones (text-mining, network analysis). A major goal of the conference is […]
Jan
10
2014
These two talks were delivered by Hoyt and Richard at the recent MLA 2014 conference in Chicago. The Haiku Meme: Imitation and Influence in American Modernism (slides) [session #155] Who is Thomas Curtis Clark? Modernist Networks of Exclusion (slides) [session #233] Thank you to Andrew Goldstone (Rutgers), Amy Hungerford (Yale), Matthew Jockers (Nebraska), Andrew Piper […]
Sep
22
2013
The Global Literary Networks team is also doing a second panel at MLA 2014 with Andrew Piper, associate professor at McGill. Haun Saussy (Chicago) and Ted Underwood (Illinois) will be doing the responses. While our other panel focuses on issues specific to American modernism, this panel attends more to the relationship between comparative literature-transnational studies […]
Sep
19
2013
At the upcoming Modern Language Association Conference in Chicago, we will be presenting new work as part of the special session Seeing with Numbers: Sociological and Macroanalytic Approaches to Literary Exclusion. The session is co-organized with Andrew Goldstone (Rutgers), who will also be presenting a paper. Amy Hungerford (Yale) and Matthew Jockers (University of Nebraska) will […]
Mar
05
2013
Our project, under the title Global Literary Networks, has been selected to join the Neubauer Collegium’s inaugural cohort of research grants. The news was officially announced today. Here’s a description of the project, which will get underway in the fall of 2013: Global Literary Networks is a two-year digital humanities research project that examines the production, […]
Dec
05
2012
Back in October, we presented a general overview of our work at the annual University of Chicago Humanities Day. We had a good crowd of prospective students, alumni, and other interested people from the community. The lecture is now available on youtube. If you’re interested in hearing about our project first-hand, and about other digitally-enhanced […]
Dec
01
2012
We have recently finished a preprint version of our first collaborative essay, to be published in Boundary 2 next year. You can find it in our list of publications, but we wanted to put a link upfront. The essay, “Network Analysis and the Sociology of Modernism,” provides an introduction into the kind of work we […]