Slides from MLA 2019 session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” an open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum.

This article analyzes Stop-and-Frisk policing within the long history of lynching through the analytical framework of performance studies. Contemporary audio recordings of stop-and-frisk procedures are thought in relation to the historical examples of the Zoot Suit Riots and late 19th-century and early 20th-century lynchings of African Americans.

In light of (re)new(ed) interest in focusing interdisciplinary scholarly attention on the history of capitalism – a focus captured in Edward Baptist’s recent book, The Half has Never Been Told – this essay reads Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy as a key text for considering the history of capitalism as central to conceptions of circum-…[Read more]

In light of (re)new(ed) interest in focusing interdisciplinary scholarly attention on the history of capitalism – a focus captured in Edward Baptist’s recent book, The Half has Never Been Told – this essay reads Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy as a key text for considering the history of capitalism as central to conceptions of circum-…[Read more]

This is a panel paper for “Critical Computation: What’s Next?” This paper discusses an unpublished aspect of the article “The Transformation of Gender in English-Language Fiction,” published in Cultural Analytics in 2018. In this paper I discuss ways in which we (Ted Underwood, David Bamman, and I) tried to explain the decline of women writers in…[Read more]

Short paper presented for MLA 2019 Session 417 – “Critical Computation: What’s Next?”

Short paper presented for MLA 2019 Session 417 – “Critical Computation: What’s Next?”

Paper for Session 417: Critical Computation: What’s Next?

At the intersection of comics and medicine is the rise of the Graphic Medicine scholarship field. This course examines the ways in which the sequentialized hybrid of word and image is bringing new insights to patient, healthcare, and clinical experiences.

In any manner of ways, the comics medium (whether known as comic books, graphic novels,…[Read more]

This presentation explains my undergrad/grad seminar “East Asian DH” (EALC111/511) at University of Pennsylvania in Spring 2018. I focus on the survey format of the seminar, as dictated by the challenge of trying to reach students working on many aspects of the un-discipline of East Asian studies, which encompasses a large region, at least three…[Read more]

Datasets, that is, digital collections of related information, and data visualizations are really crucial ways for understanding the circulation of African American short stories and black literature in general. Calculating the number of unique stories and the many reprints allow us to survey how editors collectively shaped canonical histories.…[Read more]

Build Your Online Presence, Share Your Scholarship, and Collaborate on MLA Commons and Humanities Commons, session 140

This workshop introduces the features of MLA Commons and Humanities Commons, highlighting a number of cases that demonstrate how people are using the platform to get feedback on work in progress, develop a professional online…[Read more]

Short paper presented for session 417 on Critical Computation.