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

Using qualitative data, including extensive interview material and ethnographic research, to explore the experiences and ideas of African Americans as they confront and construct gentrification, this book aims to contextualize Black Washingtonians’ perspectives on belonging and attachment during a marked period of urban restructuring and d…[Read more]

While acknowledging the difficulties cities face, Leading the Inclusive City mounts a powerful case that cities do have tools at their disposal for ameliorating inequality, advancing social justice, promoting environmental responsibility, and bolstering community empowerment. Susan Marie Martin thinks citizens of all cities will find this book…[Read more]

Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, On the Commodity Trail explores the colourful and fascinating histories of everyday objects. Susan Marie Martin finds the author’s writing style, which includes historical ironies, and parallels between concepts and lived experience, have created a text accessible to a broad, curious readership.

For centuries Cork’s Shawlies, working-class women, survived by trading on public streets. My study explores how the first Irish Free State government, and Cork’s local authority, limited the rights of poor women to earn by subsistence trading with The Street Trading Act, 1926. The government insisted this would regulate street trading. In pra…[Read more]

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

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.

Front matter for Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century