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Month: January 2016

Written by Ashley O'MaraJanuary 29, 2016

Coda: The Human in the Humanities

My first semester of grad school was kind of a wreck: I was constantly sick, my nerves were bound tight with anxiety, and my back and wrists were in pain from the Soviet-era metal chair-desks in a basement classroom. None of this was helped by the ideological distress I found myself in. Two pieces of

Written by Ashley O'MaraJanuary 22, 2016

A Match Made in the Archive: Reading and Poaching Through Ngrams and Rare Books

On a hunch, I went home after the DH events last September and typed “Jesuit” into the English corpus of Google Books’ Ngram Viewer. The tool is more powerful than what I used it for, but my search revealed how popular the word was in the English-language books that Google has digitized and made searchable.

Written by Ashley O'MaraJanuary 15, 2016

Common Knowledge?: EEBO, #FrEEBO, and Public Domain Information

Teaching Article

If you work in the humanities and you’ve used a database, a dictionary, or Google Docs in the past ten years, congratulations! — you’re already doing digital humanities. This was a point emphasized by Syracuse University professor Chris Hanson in a panel discussion on the digital humanities that I attended after the Six Degrees of

Written by Ashley O'MaraJanuary 8, 2016

The Human in the Digital Humanities

Teaching Article

The digital humanities (or as the cool kids call it, DH) have been in my peripheral vision since my first year in grad school: something that looks useful and fun; but for someone who dreads calculating grades, working with data is intimidating. Last September, a series of DH events in a symposium on the future

Written by Amy BurnetteJanuary 1, 2016

The English Renaissance “Timeline”: Part III

Reading Article

“Habits of behavior begin with the control of the hand, with the formations of the hand.” – Jonathan Goldberg[1] In “The English Renaissance ‘Timeline’: Part II,” I discussed how I came upon the works of English Renaissance calligrapher Esther Inglis, specifically through her drawing of an emblem from Jean-Jacques Boissard’s Emblemes (1588). The emblem became

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