Mar 05 2013

Literary Networks joins the UofC’s Inaugural Neubauer Cohort

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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, diffusion, and reception of literature on a macro-interpretative scale using tools of network analysis and network visualization. Combining large datasets, social scientific methods, and textual close reading, this project investigates the social dimensions of modernist literary history and aesthetics in the twentieth century by de-framing traditional literary categories – such as influence and dissemination – and introducing and adapting new categories from other disciplines. Using modernist poetry from the United States as the starting point, the project branches out to Japan, China, and Latin America to track the relation between modernist poetic activities in different national contexts. The project brings together theoreticians and technicians from literary studies, sociology, computer science, statistics, and visual design to explore new approaches to the analysis, preservation, and presentation of “big data”; new media platforms for processing, displaying, and disseminating digitally inflected work; and team-based scholarship.

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Dec 05 2012

Humanities Day Lecture

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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 research taking place at U of C, please have a look.

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Dec 01 2012

Our First Essay

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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 are doing and also serves as a proof-of-concept for further inquiry. We welcome any and all feedback!

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Nov 15 2012

DHCS 2012

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For those of you in the greater Chicago area, please come check out the 2012 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science. Hoyt will be demonstrating a few pieces of our literary networks project and talking about some of the ways that network analysis and interactive visualization can enhance scholarly engagement with big bibliographic data.

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Nov 04 2012

Lab Notes

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Here is where you will find postings on our work in progress. We hope to use this page as a testing ground for new concepts, ideas, and images that we are in the process of working through. Status updates about the project will also be posted here.

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