Scholars who have studied the contested meaning of “creole” in Louisiana have
typically maintained that the “Creole myth,” that is the strategic redefinition of
the term “creole” to refer to the white descendants of Louisiana’s original French
and Spanish settlers, emerged during or shortly after the Civil War. Drawing on
a newspaper art…[Read more]

Scholars who have studied the contested meaning of “creole” in Louisiana have
typically maintained that the “Creole myth,” that is the strategic redefinition of
the term “creole” to refer to the white descendants of Louisiana’s original French
and Spanish settlers, emerged during or shortly after the Civil War. Drawing on
a newspaper art…[Read more]

Published in New Orleans in 1845 by a group of free men of color, Les Cenelles: Choix de poésies indigènes is now commonly recognized as the first collection of African American poetry. As a testament to and expression of the intellectual prowess of New Orleans’s francophone free Black community, Les Cenelles deserves to be read as a formally int…[Read more]

Gender roles in Shakespeare’s plays take on new meanings when they are embodied by Asian actors. Learning more about Asian approaches to performance not only enriches our worldview but also makes Asian cultures less abstract and Asian people more relatable as fellow human beings. Reflecting the idea that strength and empowerment can take many f…[Read more]

Since the nineteenth century, stage and film directors have mounted hundreds of adaptations of Shakespeare drawn on East Asian motifs, and by the late twentieth century, Shakespeare had become one of the most frequently performed playwrights in East Asia. There are five striking themes surrounding cultural, racial, and gender dynamics. Gender…[Read more]

Since the nineteenth century, stage and film directors have mounted hundreds of adaptations of Shakespeare drawn on East Asian motifs, and by the late twentieth century, Shakespeare had become one of the most frequently performed playwrights in East Asia. There are five striking themes surrounding cultural, racial, and gender dynamics. Gender…[Read more]

Libertarias (1996) and Land and Freedom (1995) explore the complex situation
of women militia during the Spanish Civil War. A queer reading of the female
body in these films highlights wartime female masculinity (Halberstam) and
female solidarity. In renegotiating worn expectations of sexuality and gender,
the films question and ultimately…[Read more]

A distinctive style of “Scottish Gothic’”emerged, after 1815, in fiction by Walter Scott, James Hogg, and fellow members of the Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine circle. This chapter introduces this corpus of Scottish Gothic literature, specifies some ways in which the uncanny entailments of Scottish Gothic relate to religious discourse (very muc…[Read more]

I briefly survey the function of books, written artifacts, literary criticism and connoisseurship/curation in apocalyptic literature from Mary Shelley to Malka Older (with a nod to the Book of Revelation) and in contemporary Young Adult fiction and “cli-fi” — science fiction and fantasy centered around climate change, such as Kim Stanley…[Read more]

Shakespeare’s As You Like It breathed abroad preserves Marlowe’s denouement in his tragedy of Leander from a Ganymede turned.

To suggest Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” breathed abroad includes two witnesses to Marlowe’s denouement something omitted when “Hero and Leander” is published in 1598 to “the gentle aire” of Walsingham’s “liking” and replaced in the subsequent publication of “Hero and Leander, An Amorous Poem” dedicated to Lady Audrey.

This is a strictly descriptive paper that summarizes the LANEHAQ for presentation and discussion at the CSHDS conference, session Humanités numériques au Québec

This paper documents the initial stages of an experiment in creating ephemeral live coding languages – “JSoLangs” – for diverse artistic, educational, and critical purposes. The experiment takes place in the context of the larger Estuary project: a browser-based, collaborative platform that allows multiple, distinct live coding not…[Read more]

The named places in REED London are more than just points on a map. We can use them to understand patterns in where performances were more or less likely to occur. But spatial information can lead to more surprising discoveries about performances that expand beyond a single location, and help us rethink who would have witnessed something…[Read more]

The video recording of the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/mtkFR5fVtkM

The end of the 19th and early 20th centuries saw great archaeological activity in Egypt, a period that came to be known as the ‘Golden Age’ of Egyptology. Our digital project began in 2010 with the unpublished diaries of Mrs. Emma B. Andrews, who tra…[Read more]

Conçu pour transformer le flux de travail numérique des revues scientifiques dans le domaine des sciences humaines et sociales, Stylo (https://stylo.huma-num.fr) est un outil pensé pour offrir une chaîne éditoriale complète et continue de la rédaction à la publication pour les chercheur·e·s et les étudiant·e·s, en évitant la perte de données et de…[Read more]