In this course you will learn to apply computational methods to create historical arguments. You will learn to work with historical data, including finding, gathering, manipulating, analyzing, visualizing, and arguing from data, with special attention to geospatial, textual, and network data. These methods will be taught primarily through…[Read more]

This article argues that scholars must understand mass digitized texts as assemblages of new editions, subsidiary editions, and impressions of their historical sources, and that these various parts require sustained bibliographic analysis and description. To adequately theorize any research conducted in large-scale text archives—including r…[Read more]

Review of Timothy Knepper, Negating Negation: Against the Apophatic Abandonment of the Dionysian Corpus (James Clarke & Co: Cambridge, 2015) in Modern Believing 58.4 (2017), 406-408.

This chapter discusses Maurice Sendak’s depictions of Jewish mother’s in conversation with his relationship with his _own_ mother.

Rose Macaulay’s The World My Wilderness (1950) rewrites post-Second World War crises of displacement, child combat, and state re-integration through the genre of the domestic melodrama. Adolescent protagonists Barbary and Raoul move from France to London at the end of the war as both combatants and refugees, having spent the conflict aiding the R…[Read more]

This article approaches the problem of reconstructing the culturally situated audience experience of radio programming through the example of Louis MacNeice’s wartime radio broadcasts, notably “Alexander Nevsky” and “Christopher Columbus”. The article draws on audience research reports, internal correspondence, and close analysis of the broadcasts…[Read more]

This article provides an overview of the history of radio studies as it intersects with twentieth-century literary studies, and outlines recent research trends in the field. Beginning with the earliest theorists and practitioners of radio (including Hilda Matheson, Rudolf Arnheim, and Lance Sieveking), the article considers how mid-twentieth…[Read more]