This article investigates Henry James’s digital afterlives by analyzing popular James-themed images and articles that have been shared on the Internet since 2000. Adapting Richard Dawkins’s theory of virality and Michael Anesko’s concept of James’s cultural capital, this article engages with viral content published on websites such as Bustle,…[Read more]

This essay draws parallels between the intellectual labor of the Jamesian narrator and that of social media user, both of whom use similar techniques to arrange and interpret data streams (consciousness, expression, dialogue, action, text). I argue that James’s social politics of conversation is not only suited to making digital interlocutors c…[Read more]

Syllabus for ENGL 758D, The Speculative Situation, graduate seminar in the University of Maryland English department, Fall 2017.

Figure 7: Links, “Address on Emancipation in the British West Indies,” (1844) “The Fugitive Slave Law,” (1854) and “The Emancipation Proclamation” (1862)

Figure 6: Corpus Terms, “Address on Emancipation in the British West Indies,” (1844) “The Fugitive Slave Law,” (1854) and “The Emancipation Proclamation” (1862)

Figure 5: Cirrus word cloud, “Address on Emancipation in the British West Indies,” (1844) “The Fugitive Slave Law,” (1854) and “The Emancipation Proclamation” (1862)

Figure 4: “New England Reformers” Collation, Side-by-Side Comparison

Figure 3: “New England Reformers” Collation, Heat Map

Figure 2: “New England Reformers” Collation, 1844 and Centenary Edition, Side-by-Side Comparison

Figure 1: “New England Reformers” Collation, 1844 and Centenary Edition, Heat Map

This course will introduce you to the new humanist field of oceanic studies, which foregrounds the history of ocean travel and epistemologies over the humanities’ implicit yet traditional and ingrained focus on the nation-state. You will be introduced to these theories by reading literature and viewing films related to one particular topic w…[Read more]

By the end of this course, you will have encountered Sherlock in just about as many media and textual forms as the great detective has disguises: novels, short stories, illustrated serials in The Strand, plays, poems, essays, parodies, TV episodes, silent films, Hollywood films, comic books, and fan fiction. Each unit will require you to complete…[Read more]