Literary and Historical Network Analysis Masterclass
19 May 2016, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm
Event Information
Open to
- All
Organiser
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Lucy Stagg
Location
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G24, Foster Court, UCL, Malet Place, London, WC1E 7JG
Following seminar on big data, on Weds 18th May, he will be giving a masterclass on Literary and Historical Network Analysis. All welcome. Please note that is required.
Participants will need to bring their own laptops, and ideally will have installed Gephi in advance:
Suggested reading
- Scott Weingart's series
- Ryan Cordell's Reprinting, Circulation and the Network Author in Antebellum Newspapers
Professor Cordell's visit to Õ¬ÄÐÊÓƵ is funded by the
Tutor
is an assistant professor of English at Northeastern University and core founding faculty member in the . His scholarship focuses on convergences among literary, periodical, and religious culture in antebellum American mass media. Prof. Cordell collaborates with colleagues in English, history, and computer science on the NEH-, Mellon-, and ACLS-funded Viral Texts project, which uses robust data mining tools to discover reprinted content across large-scale archives of nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines. These "viral texts" help us to trace lines of influence among antebellum writers and editors, and to construct a model of viral textuality in the period.
Cordell is currently a Mellon Fellow of Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia and holds an ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship during the 2015-2016 academic year. He also serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of centerNet's journal, DHCommons; and writes about technology in higher education for the group blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education.