At the core of this talk-in-progress is a fascination with the face to face encounter as an interpersonal event, an epistemic threshold, and a mimetic structure…
Project work in the HDW can count toward the requirements for a graduate certificate or an undergraduate minor in Data Science
Principal Investigator: Anupam Basu, Washington University in St. Louis. Early Modern Print: Text Mining Early Modern English offers a range of tools for the computational exploration and analysis of English print culture before 1700.
Principal Investigator: Lynne Tatlock, Washington University in St. Louis. One year after its first publication in London in 1847, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre first appeared in both English and in German translation in the German-language print domain, and over the next sixty years the novel circulated widely in the German-language print domain…
Principal Investigator: Abram Van Engen, Washington University in St. Louis. This project tracks every use of the phrase “city on a hill” and its variants from 1600 to the present in order to find out what this phrase means, in what context it most often appears, when it begins referring to America, and what kind of America it identifies.
Timothy J. Moore's database, The Meters of Roman Comedy, is now available.
Principal Investigator: Jami Ake. The Gender Violence Database is an accessible searchable tool designed for researchers, practitioners, and the general public interested in the multidisciplinary field of Violence Against Women.
Principal Investigator: Steven B. Miles, Washington University in St. Louis. During the past five centuries, migrant Cantonese (natives of the Pearl River delta in China’s Guangdong Province) have created a diaspora with trajectories spanning not only vast parts of China but also stretching across five continents. This project is developing a database intended to help researchers trace the commercial networks that supported one of these diasporic trajectories, upstream along the West River (Xijiang 西江) basin in southern China.
Intended as a resource for scholars, students, writers, and teachers, the James Merrill Digital Archive currently provides digital access to a small cross-section from the James Merrill Papers housed in Special Collections at Washington University
Principal Investigator: Matt Erlin, Washington University in St. LouisThis project employs the techniques of probabilistic topic modeling to test a set of longstanding assumptions about the periodization of German literary history.
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Principal Investigators: Joseph Loewenstein, Washington University in St. Louis, et al.The Spenser Archive is the digital component of Oxford University Press's forthcoming Collected Works of Edmund Spenser.
