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Feminist DH@UVA: A Collaboration
Event Info
Date:Friday, 01/12/2018
Time:30600.0-4:30PM
Place:Alderman Library, Room 421
Registration:Required! Details below.
Event Info

The Scholars’ Lab and UVA Library are pleased to bring to Grounds four leaders of literary digital projects focusing on a diverse range of women writers across history.

These four different digital projects share innovative ways to study networks of biographical records, including little-known early modern or eighteenth-century women writers, or all women writers associated with Britain, or women of many occupations across history, as represented circa 1830-1940. The projects have theorized and reflected on the argument and scholarship that go into ontologies, editorial practice, and database and visualization designs. Research collaborators and users of the projects can follow different paths into the archives of text or the personographies. Data visualization; the Text Encoding Initiative in a publishing and repository context; documenting the circulation of reviews, citations, and texts; tagging trends in gender ideology and typologies within the changing features of women’s biographies; and textual analysis are among the approaches we demonstrate and question in our practice.

Please join us for a full day of presentations as well as frank discussion of the challenges and rewards of four different approaches. All are welcome.

Susan Brown, Professor of English, University of Guelph, Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Digital Scholarship; Director of Orlando and Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory

Julia Flanders, Professor of the Practice of English, Northeastern University; Director, Digital Scholarship Group; Director, Women Writers Project

Laura Mandell, Professor of English, Texas A & M University; Director, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture; ARC (Applied Research Consortium); The Poetess Archive

Alison Booth, Professor of English, University of Virginia, and Academic Director of the Scholars’ Lab; Director of Collective Biographies of Women  in collaboration with Rennie Mapp, Worthy Martin, Daniel Pitti, Jeremy Boggs, and many others

Schedule: 8:30-9:30    Coffee and pastries 9:30-10:15   Susan Brown, Linking: Feminism, DH and Infrastructure 10:30-11:15  Julia Flanders, Open-Access Data from the Women Writers Project 11:30-12:15  Laura Mandell, Visualization and Gender Discovery LUNCH 2:00-2:45    Alison Booth, Can the Typologies Speak?: Problems for Feminist Biographical Networks 3:00-4:30   Discussion

Reception to follow from 5:00-7:00 in the Rotunda, Multipurpose Room.

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  • Questions?
    Contact Scholars' Lab's Head of Public Programs Laura Miller.