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Keynote Address
February 19, 2010 Peter Stallybrass Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania Flash player here Video of this event is hosted at the Internet Archive. You can also download a podcast of this address at Making History.
Dickinson Meets DoubleClick: Remediating Poetry
Rachael Sullivan University of Texas at Dallas Panel: “Evolving Reading Practices” Flash player here Video of this event is hosted at the Internet Archive. On the Internet—where banner, pop-up, and in-text ads interweave with content—literature and seemingly unrelated words and images collide. When poetry is remediated on the Internet, the boundaries we set between the [...]
Rachael Sullivan
Talk: “Dickinson Meets DoubleClick: Remediating Poetry“ Panel: “Evolving Reading Practices” Rachael Sullivan holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is currently an M.A. student in Literary and Media Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her scholarly interests include contemporary poetry, media history and theory, and electronic literature. [...]
Layers of the Past: GIS, Social Process, and Contingency in Historical Mapping
Scott Nesbit University of Virginia Panel: “Mapping History” Flash player here Video of this event is hosted at the Internet Archive. Scholars have increasingly called for new tools that would enable them to organize the large digital collections that are increasingly available online. In a previous era of massive documentary publishing, historians at the Carnegie [...]
Scott Nesbit
Talk: “Layers of the Past: GIS, Social Process, and Contingency in Historical Mapping” Panel: “Mapping History” After attending Swarthmore College and the University of Virginia architecture school, Scott Nesbit began PhD work in History at UVa. His dissertation looks at how men and women talked about forgiveness in religious and political contexts during the Civil [...]
Hilary Menges
Panel Chair, “The Material Object in Digital Culture” I am a Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at Yale working on the history of the book, poetry, and authorship from the mid-seventeenth century through the eighteenth century. My dissertation, entitled “Monumental Remains: The Author and the Book in Early Modern English Literature,” investigates how poets envisioned [...]
The Dark Tide: Digital Preservation, Interpretive Loss, and the Google Books Project
Jessica Weare Stanford University Panel: “The Material Object in Digital Culture” Flash player here Video of this event is hosted at the Internet Archive. Jessica Weare’s paper “The Dark Tide: Digital Preservation, Interpretive Loss, and the Google Books Project” takes as its case study one obscure 1920s novel’s digitization for the Google Books Project. As [...]
Jessica Weare
Talk: “The Dark Tide: Digital Preservation, Interpretative Loss” Panel: “The Material Object in Digital Culture” Jessica Weare is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University. Her dissertation, Competing Narratives: British Memoirs and Fictions of the First World War, examines four figures of British modernism — Siegfried Sassoon, Richard Aldington, Robert Graves, and Vera Brittain — who [...]
Eugenia Kelbert
Talk: “Ménage á trois, or General Theory of Communication” Panel: “Finding the Words: The Digital Linguistics Database” Eugenia Kelbert joined the Comparative Literature department at Yale in 2008, following a BA in Medieval and Modern Languages (French & German) at The Queen’s College, Oxford. After graduating in 2007, she worked in Moscow as a freelance [...]
The Scholar as Archivist: A Case Study in Negotiating the Borders between Description and Analysis
Claudia Schlessman University of Pennsylvania Panel: “The Digital Age Library” Flash player here Video of this event is hosted at the Internet Archive. This study elucidates insights pertaining to source format; that is, the virtues of using both original and digital versions of documents. Drawing on experience from the seemingly disparate disciplines of academic research [...]