Introducing “Social Identity In Early Modern Print: Shakespeare, Drama...
Today I am enormously pleased to introduce my PhD thesis, entitled “Social Identity In Early Modern Print: Shakespeare, Drama (1514-1662), and EEBO-TCP Phase I”. It investigates how Shakespeare’s use...
View Article10 Things You Can Do with EEBO-TCP Phase I
The following are a list of resources I presented at Yale University (New Haven, CT, USA) on 4 May 2016 as part of my visit to the Yale Digital Humanities Lab. Thank you again for having me! This...
View ArticleWhat’s a “book” in Early English Books Online?
Recently I have been employed by the Visualising English Print project, where one of the things we are doing is looking at improving the machine-readability of the TCP texts. My colleague Deidre has...
View ArticleHeather’s 3 rules of doing digital scholarship
In my new job as Digital Scholarship Fellow in Quantitative Text Analysis, I’m starting to work with students and faculty in the Liberal Arts on the hows and ways of counting words in lots of texts....
View ArticleHow I use Twitter as an academic
An enormous amount of academic life happens in digital spaces these days. The microblogging service Twitter, which has been around since 2007, has all but replaced the academic listserv in 2017....
View ArticleUsing Voyant Tools in the Undergraduate Research Classroom
[note: this post is cross-posted to the Early Modern Recipes Online Collective (EMROC) blog. see it here.] This semester I have partnered with Dr Marissa Nicosia (Penn State Abington) on an...
View ArticleCall for Papers – Revealing Meaning: Feminist Methods in Digital Scholarship
Posted August 2019 This volume, tentatively titled Revealing Meaning: Feminist Methods in Digital Scholarship, will gather chapters in which digital methodologies can engage directly with...
View ArticleMoby Dick is About Whales, or Why Should We Count Words?
Why are we interested in counting words? The immediate payoff is not always clear. Many of us are familiar with what I like to call the Moby Dick is About Whales model of quantitative work, wherein we...
View ArticleA Gentle Introduction to Excel and Spreadsheets for Humanities People
I understand that a lot of Humanities researchers do not use spreadsheets or Excel very often in their lives. It’s not something we’re really trained in, nor is it really that much of a necessity in...
View ArticleAgainst Cultural Heritage Wastelands
This is a version of remarks I prepared for The Future of Early Modern Marginalia roundtable at the 2023 Renaissance Society of America conference. I want to use my 10 minutes today to discuss digital...
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