Drawing on examples from the “Programming Historian en español” (PHes) and the “Proyecto Humboldt Digital” (ProHD), in this presentation I will argue that, while the FAIR Principles can guide how we build DH resources in the Global North, any attempt to apply them in the Global South (especially in Latin American countries) may replicate…[Read more]

Jane Austen’s Sanditon (begun 1807) is something of a mystery for Austen scholars. Since its first description in 1871 and its publication in 1925, Austen’s incomplete final novel fragment has inspired innumerable essays speculating about Austen’s intentions and plans, and countless continuations that attempt to provide a plot on top of Austen’s…[Read more]

Between 1776 and 1800 — at the end of Garrick’s reign at Drury and the rise of Edmund Kean — the shape of Europe, the role of women in the public sphere, and even the size of London’s patent theatres underwent renovation and reconstitution. The results often wore familiar faces, even as meaning was changed by new contexts and editorial f…[Read more]

Many innovations in Samuel Richardson’s final novel, Sir Charles Grandison, set it apart. I argue that the ways in which Richardson innovated in the final volume in particular altered his attitude toward closure. Richardson carried this modified way of thinking into the work of his late life, as self-editor and anthologizer. Grandison is a vital…[Read more]

This essay is part of a larger project that investigates the ways in which Burney’s endings (in her novels, plays, and life-writing) create a sense (or non-sense) of an ending. Here I consider Burney’s final novel, The Wanderer, in its place as Burney’s final fictional ending. In my reading of Burney’s novel-writing career, The Wanderer is at t…[Read more]

Sarah Fielding promoted rational reading practices through techniques that often differed from those used in the mid-eighteenth-century novel, particularly the contrary techniques employed by Samuel Richardson and her brother, Henry Fielding. Examining Fielding’s Remarks on Clarissa and her co-authored “dramatic fable” The Cry, this essay argue…[Read more]

From Masters of the Marketplace: British Women Novelists of the 1750s. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2010.

This paper will detail the development of an ontology that reflects the complex relationship between concepts of labor and office in the 18th century Moravian ego-documents of Fulneck, Yorkshire. Undertaking this type of rich and subject-driven data mining permits the exploration of the relationship between forms of labor in Moravian congregations…[Read more]

This presentation introduces the Proyecto Humboldt Digital (ProHD), a cooperation project between the Academy of Sciences and Humanities of Berlin-Brandenburg (BBAW, Germany) and the Casa Humboldt of the Office of the Historian of the City of La Havana (OHCH, Cuba). ProHD aims to preserve and provide online access to documents that witness the…[Read more]