MLA Commons | Computer Studies in Language and Literature | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/computer-studies-in-language-and-literature/ Activity feed for the group, Computer Studies in Language and Literature. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:16:32 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 3484aff6e48f2f7f69993134073227bd Ryan Cordell deposited Surveying the Humanities MakerLab Movement in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1899996/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:00:05 -0400 SHMLM analyzes the humanities’ maker turn by surveying the research, pedagogical, and public service missions of existing humanities makerspaces; identifying commonalities among such efforts across disciplines, technologies, and organizational structures; comparing their activities and institutional identities with comparable contemporary STEM- o…[Read more]

]]> 0 f64e2f3d5fb28c7f060ad649bb9488c5 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Serán ceniza, mas tendrán sentido: orígenes de las humanidades digitales en España in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870995/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:07:52 -0500 Se recogen en este capítulo los movimientos iniciales y proyectos de humani-dades digitales sobre la lengua española entre 1971 y 1993. Se trata, sobre todo, de proyectos españoles desarrollados principalmente en relación con universidades y centros de investigación de Madrid. Se hace referencia también a otros centros y otros proyectos, sobre…[Read more]

]]> 0 7513183d4ee311789ebd0b55c730e6fc Shawna Ross deposited A Beginner’s Guide to Using Voyant for Digital Theme Analysis in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1821419/ Fri, 11 Nov 2022 02:25:42 -0500 “Digital Theme Analysis” depicts the role that thematic analysis plays in literary criticism, places traditional thematic analysis approaches alongside digital ones, and offers best practices for carrying out digital thematic analysis in the context of Voyant Tools. The chapter identifies thematic analysis as a meaningful pattern that can be tra…[Read more]

]]> 0 ac28dcacf475941c7ae631801e3bc882 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited El mito del pluricentrismo desde le realidad de la traducción in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1766339/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 04:03:59 -0500 The present work analyzes the application of the pluricentric interpretation
to the Spanish language from the repercussion that this current may have
to correctly interpret the complex reality of Spanish in the United States. The
concept of pluricentrism is not innocent, it tries to favor certain political and
economic interests and it can…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0aafcf3a575e7c9f312e54285fea0df Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Notas editoriales al Cantar de Mio Cid in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1766335/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 04:00:40 -0500 Como homenaje a Fernando González Ollé se realizó esta presentación de notas y correcciones a la edición de FMM en Biblioteca Nueva, 1997, como un modo de ampliar el diálogo y abrirlo al conjunto de participantes en el homenaje, fueran autores o lectores.

]]> 0 98603e9f03262c96161ada761593d591 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Miscelánea numeral diacrónica y tipológica con reflexiones sobre el Libro de Alexandre in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1726976/ Wed, 10 Feb 2021 02:28:53 -0500 This work includes a series of aspects of the study of numerals, from different perspectives and with different applications. It is particularly relevant the application of diachronic analysis to the establishment of a date for the Libro de Alexandre. some of those aspects were already treated by the author in different publications; however, they…[Read more]

]]> 0 3ec7d0b5e99c56d05c4218cdfc5ce1eb Jason Boyd deposited Narrative in a Digital Age (Winter 2021) in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1724414/ Fri, 22 Jan 2021 02:24:01 -0500 Syllabus for the English ENG921 course, “Narrative in a Digital Age” for the Winter 2021 semester, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.

]]> 0 e5946b15fb4d7c273fb633fa8809b457 Katherine D. Harris deposited Curating Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1719058/ Mon, 07 Dec 2020 02:24:10 -0500 This is the published introduction to the born-digital, open-access, peer-reviewed *Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities*. More a rationale and scholarly study of both Digital Pedagogy and DPiH in general, this introduces articulates the uses, theory, rationale about digital pedagogy as it has been shaped in U.S. institutions since the explosion of…[Read more]

]]> 0 7460193ce12a47b1b66f2f0405402f2e Marlene Manoff deposited The Stuff of Bits: An Essay on the Materialities of Information by Paul Dourish in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1711775/ Mon, 12 Oct 2020 02:23:45 -0400 A book review of The Stuff of Bits: An Essay on the Materialities of Information (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017) by John Dourish

]]> 0 151e2375e72a7e28e069b764cfb39dc6 Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited "Poor Black Squares": Afterimages of the Floppy Disk in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1668447/ Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:26:16 -0400 Chapter 21 of The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence, ed. Mark J.P. Wolf (New York and London: Routledge, 2019): 296-310.

]]> 0 ae29fd3b62c4a894c87f294abc577171 Kathi Inman Berens deposited Introduction: "What Is Creative Making As Creative Writing?" in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1665784/ Tue, 08 Oct 2019 16:25:21 -0400 This special issue of the Journal of Creative Writing Studies centers on how creative writing changes when writers actively engage computers as nonhuman collaborators in “creative making.” Using examples from McGurl’s The Program Era, Emily Dickinson, and the crowdsourced “translation” of Melville’s classic into Emoji Dick, Berens suggests th…[Read more]

]]> 0 04f1d77939f7b4038a9aea372919dc3a Carrie Johnston deposited Being Human in Digital Humanities Project Management- MLA 2020 panel abstract in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1663865/ Thu, 19 Sep 2019 03:48:43 -0400 This panel will consider the changing landscape of research support for digitally-inflected scholarship in higher education through the lens of digital humanities project management. Digital humanists acting as project managers must continually adapt their practices in response to shifting institutional priorities and concomitant changes in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 aabf9875d24594a12378e00aadec6ac8 Anastasia Salter deposited Introduction to Texts & Technology in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1660261/ Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:25:25 -0400 Syllabus for the introductory course in UCF’s Texts & Technology PhD program. Builds on a previous iteration of the course taught by Mel Stanfill.

]]> 0 6147f101f2180addd466fd51f41a5633 Brandon Walsh deposited Digital Literary Studies Syllabus in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1639771/ Tue, 07 May 2019 16:25:21 -0400 The syllabus for a graduate course on “Digital Literary Studies” taught in the UVA English department. Course was co-taught and co-constructed by Alison Booth and Brandon Walsh.

]]> 0 161ae1b3ebc59786d8eab205aa2dd72e Melanie Conroy deposited Visualizing the French Enlightenment Network Using Palladio in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1635189/ Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:28:03 -0400 Visualization tools can allow academics to produce their own diagrams without necessarily hiring a designer. I will walk through some examples of diagrams produced in Palladio, a digital humanities package developed in the Humanities + Design Lab at Stanford University. Palladio lends itself to qualitative studies because the visualizations that…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e5a7bbe35eb6fba00fede4131be252b Spencer Keralis deposited Disrupting Labor in the Digital Humanities; or, The Classroom Is Not Your Crowd in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628275/ Tue, 08 Jan 2019 03:48:43 -0500 Digital humanists have a labor problem, but it’s not what you might think. In this chapter, I describe the problem of student labor in digital humanities as I see it, and examine some of the structural issues that drive the use of student labor. I place the labor economy of digital humanities projects within the broader context of the innovation e…[Read more]

]]> 0 3378023a1ad1debc403c7670e4336ceb Patricia M. Hswe started the topic CFP for 2019 Association for Computers and the Humanities Conference—due Nov. 10 in the discussion Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/forums/topic/cfp-for-2019-association-for-computers-and-the-humanities-conference-due-nov-10/ Thu, 01 Nov 2018 01:05:03 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

November 10, the deadline to submit proposals for the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) conference, is fast approaching! Have you sent in your proposal yet?

ACH is the U.S.-based constituent organization in the Alliance for Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). Next summer, in partnership with Carnegie Mellon…[Read more]

]]> 0 d02ea4e9801fd4ad62571fb0b936fb36 Paul Fyfe deposited HON 313, Reading Machines syllabus and assignments (Fall 2017) in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1622070/ Thu, 25 Oct 2018 16:25:21 -0400 Syllabus, project assignments, and milestones for HON 313, “Reading Machines” (Fall 2017), a first-year interdisciplinary experience course at NC State University. Reading Machines invites students into a historically ranging, critically intensive, and hands-on learning environment about the technologies by which humans transmit ideas. The course…[Read more]

]]> 0 00211afb0455f1f0dc3c6ffa84c1bc00 Kim Knight deposited Wearable Interfaces, Networked Bodies, and Feminist Interfaces in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615473/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 15:18:51 -0400 An examination of the cyborg potential of wearable technology as located in dress-body-technology assemblages and a call for public humanities work, such as Fashioning Circuits, that extends the Quantified Self to think instead about the Quantified Other or the Quantified Self-in-kinship.

]]> 0 c9709a6b9d416f345f2ed9cfaedb1969 Jentery Sayers deposited Optophonic Reading, Prototyping Optophones in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615140/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:14:57 -0400 This article details the contributions of blind readers to the development, design, and marketing of the optophone, a text-to-tone transcription machine introduced in the early twentieth century. We combine archival research with prototyping to investigate the dimensions involved in past coding and decoding practices. If archives provide…[Read more]

]]> 0 32d51d73bc8f2ec8c29c8600f182ee86 Jentery Sayers deposited Studying Media through New Media in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1610963/ Sat, 16 Jun 2018 04:12:26 -0400 The Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities is about researching media through new media: for example, playing games to better understand their politics and mechanics, exhibiting new media art to witness how people engage it, building stories to become more familiar with their structures and narratives, making wearable technologies to…[Read more]

]]> 0 304a6f12270549d1fa47bad27c8ed7a8 Matthew K. Gold deposited Response to Critical Infrastructure Studies Panel in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1597602/ Thu, 18 Jan 2018 04:21:05 -0500 The following is a response delivered at the end of the Critical Infrastructure Studies Panel, which took place at the January 2018 Modern Language Association Conference in New York City. This response argues that the call for critical infrastructure studies can ultimately help us mobilize a critically informed resistance to capital and set of…[Read more]

]]> 0 e0be058988e6d24584db91fd4bd9a817 Lisa Marie Rhody deposited Beyond Darwinian Distance: Situating Distant Reading in a Feminist Ut Pictura Poesis Tradition in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1596828/ Sat, 13 Jan 2018 04:14:05 -0500 Looking from a distance, as a condition of knowledge, participates within a long-standing Western tradition of power relations. This article considers the use of “distant reading” as theorized by Franco Moretti in his book by the same title and suggests that the method of literary analysis that uses such a metaphor should be aware and critical of…[Read more]

]]> 0 b16453666bec364afa8b0a1d8f651c71 Angus Grieve-Smith deposited Annotation: U Store It in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1595542/ Mon, 08 Jan 2018 05:43:56 -0500 Document annotation is almost as old as writing. The designers of the World Wide Web envisioned a system that would allow people to publicly annotate any document. The advent of cloud computing has finally made this feasible: distributed annotation systems like Hypothes.is allow users to save annotations privately, or share them with the public.…[Read more]

]]> 0 e81b6cee995c48b612c8e79014f31909 Stephanie Rountree created the doc CFP: New Media and the U.S. South [Edited Collection] in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1594142/ Mon, 01 Jan 2018 18:23:41 -0500 0 c0109ca5e118f4d43cc30bcd07b79f68 Laura R. Braunstein deposited “And There Was a Large Number of People”: The Occom Circle Project at the Dartmouth College Library in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1588606/ Wed, 15 Nov 2017 16:40:20 -0500 The Dartmouth College Library’s Occom Circle Project produced a scholarly digital edition of the papers of Samson Occom (1723–1792), a Mohegan Indian and the most widely published Native American writer of the 18th century. This chapter describes the development of the Dartmouth College Library’s project management process. The Library at the t…[Read more]

]]> 0 69d44758eb8e041840eee92339641737 Linda V Troost deposited Choose Your Own Jane Austen Adventure (slides only) in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565905/ Mon, 03 Apr 2017 20:10:17 -0400 PDF of slides for a panel presentation on Jane-Austen and Regency-themed video games.

]]> 0 59de82728056eac1c5d511330b5e83c9 Kathi Inman Berens deposited Introduction to Digital Humanities: Digital Literary Studies in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1556736/ Fri, 06 Jan 2017 20:19:13 -0500 I piloted this course as “Introduction to Digital Humanities” during fall 2016 at Portland State University’s English department. Revising my syllabus for inclusion in university-wide cluster courses, I retitled it “Digital Literary Studies.”

]]> 0 e96d6a4346f6b282fb586c4a08c4b3ec Dene M. Grigar started the topic Thursday Night Literary Reading of Experimental Works in the discussion Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/forums/topic/thursday-night-literary-reading-of-experimental-works-2/ Sat, 24 Dec 2016 17:04:39 -0500 <p>MLA members who are also involved in the Electronic Literature Organization are hosting an evening of readings & performances during the Modern Language Association conference. The event takes place in the Connelly Auditorium (room 806) in the Terra Building at The University of the Arts, on January 5, 2017, from 8-10 p.m. The University of th…[Read more]

]]> 0 69808deae37ded667b955a2396b25080 John Laudun started the topic CFP: Culture Analytics Workshop at SocInfo 2016 in the discussion Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/forums/topic/cfp-culture-analytics-workshop-at-socinfo-2016/ Thu, 11 Aug 2016 02:29:10 -0400 CFP: Culture Analytics Workshop at SocInfo 2016

The Culture Analytics Working Group invites proposals for papers to be part of a day-long workshop on Culture Analytics at this year’s International Conference on Social Informatics.

Previous workshops have focused on the intersections of text and media, on UX design, on multiscale data-driven…[Read more]

]]> 0 bea695e7153aec253b71a050d8937c2b Roger Whitson deposited Digital Blake 2.0 in the group Computer Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/534924/ Mon, 16 Nov 2015 14:21:42 -0500 In an essay entitled “Digital Blake,” J. Hillis-Miller (2006) asks a question which dominates discussions of William Blake’s relationship to New Media: “[w]ould Blake have approved of the William Blake Archive?” (p29). The Archive has itself been the focus of enormous theoretical reflection. The “Articles about the Archive” section on the Archive…[Read more]

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