“Digital Skin” Database Shannon Kenny and Jeremy Cornelius
For our digital humanities project, we would like to make an open access database which centers around the body politic. Jan Radway discusses the body politic i...
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Discourse and Digital Dialogues
Lit Review Discourse is the overarching, dominant, cultural or institutional “narrative,” and it circulates hegemonically or hierarchically (“vertically”) more ...
Atlas of Astounding Stories
For my seminar project, I will continue the work I started last week for topic modeling. I took as my subject the twelve monthly issues of Astounding Stories of...
Evangeline Images Archive
For our project, Caroline and I would like to expand our mini digital archive project, Faces of Evangeline, by archiving various illustrations of Henry Wadswort...
Snails in the 21st Century: Grass Digital Archive Proposal
Günter Grass, in one of his final interviews, revealed a deep-seated antipathy towards the digital sphere. He says, “I still write my manuscripts by hand. After...
From “Cornfield Journalist” to Political Commentator
Joel Chandler Harris lived with debilitating shyness, repeatedly expressed regret at having his name in print, and insisted that he was a mere “cornfield journa...
ARGs and Library Research
In addition to teaching writing mechanics, analytical writing, and argumentative writing, English GTAs and faculty are tasked with instructing students at LSU b...
Of Grass and Grammar
This week’s excercise and readings regarding data collection and topic setting is illuminating insofar as it demonstrates the similarities between the Soc...
Canary in a Text Mine Cont’d
Underwood says topic modeling is a way of inferring what discourses could have contributed to the creation of a set of texts. This idea relates to the notion of...
