What Jane Saw: Regency Art Exhibits in a Ghost Building
The digital humanities project What Jane Saw reconstructs two Regency-era London Pall Mall exhibitions: the Shakespeare Gallery of 1796 and the Sir Joshua Reyno...
Author: Gayle Fallon
Practical Advice and Popular Perception
Last week, I stumbled upon “Here and There: Creating DH Community,” an informal talk by Miriam Posner (UCLA). The purpose of the talk is to give con...
Using ThingLink as a Tool for Visual Media Analysis
The first assignment my ENGL 1001 students will complete next semester is a visual analysis assignment, in which students must identify a pattern within an exam...
A “Sense of Authorial Presence”: Stylometrics and the Gawain-poet
In 1988, medieval literature scholars R. A. Cooper and D. A. Pearsall published “The Gawain Poems: A Statistical Approach to the Question of Common Authorship,”...
Mining for Vikings and Outlaws
For this project, I chose to look at data mined from a small set of Old Norse sagas (both modern retellings and medieval text translations) and from a set of 30...
Polyglot Sources for News Articles about Freya Stark
My main goal was to create a news archive containing contemporary information about the life and work of British explorer Freya Stark (1893-1993). I wanted the ...
Reading Access through Historical Artifact
People of Color in European Art History (http://medievalpoc.tumblr.com/) uses art to correct the notion that med/Ren Europe was not inhabited and heavily influe...
Volunteering for the Smithsonian Transcription Center
The Smithsonian (https://transcription.si.edu/) is currently crowdsourcing an impressive number of transcription projects, and I was curious to se...
Digital Immediacy
In his response to Ed Folsom’s “Database as Genre,” Jerome McGann notes the importance of considering interface and user interaction as influe...
