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fictions of autonomy
| Autonomy in the Journal of Dutch Literature | Dec. 23, 2015 |
| For Daniel Albright | Jan. 19, 2015 |
| In Utrecht This Week: The Ethics of Literary Autonomy | Feb. 3, 2014 |
| My book in digital form | Jun. 28, 2013 |
| Remarks to the Comparative Modernisms Workshop at Northwestern | Jan. 15, 2013 |
| Monday: Discussing My Book at Northwestern | Jan. 12, 2013 |
| LaTeX and My Book: Postscript | Jan. 6, 2013 |
| My Book, Available at MLA | Jan. 3, 2013 |
| Book event at Northwestern, January 14 | Dec. 29, 2012 |
| My Forthcoming Book | Dec. 14, 2011 |
| A Bad Time Was Had by All | Feb. 21, 2011 |
| Going Negative, or, Why Not Jeeves? | Apr. 6, 2010 |
| Fictions of Autonomy | Jan. 1, 0001 |
genre
| “Genre Fiction without Shame” in American Literary History | Nov. 17, 2023 |
| “Origins of the US Genre-Fiction System” in Book History | May. 16, 2023 |
| Who knows what genres lurk in the heart of man? | Apr. 27, 2022 |
| Kurt Wallander and the Case of the Text-Encoding Gremlins | Jul. 6, 2016 |
| Terry Pratchett: “Not having battles, and doing without kings” | Mar. 15, 2015 |
joint
| Topic-Modeling PMLA | Dec. 13, 2012 |
kludgetastic
| Some cultural datasets for teaching use | Jul. 7, 2023 |
| Self-deprecation, or, old software staggers on | Jul. 11, 2022 |
| How To Reach Me | Dec. 14, 2021 |
| New features for dfr-browser/dfrtopics | Aug. 7, 2019 |
| Mounting Network Volumes via osascript in Sierra | Aug. 28, 2017 |
| Statilisticles | Jun. 21, 2017 |
| Of Literary Standards and Logistic Regression: A Reproduction | Jan. 4, 2016 |
| dfrtopics, hold the dfr | Sep. 23, 2015 |
| Topic modeling: a software update | Sep. 17, 2015 |
| Programmatic Lecture Slides Made Even More Difficult with R Markdown | May. 27, 2015 |
| rJava, Yosemite, R, RStudio | Feb. 3, 2015 |
| Easy Lecture Slides Made Difficult with Pandoc and Beamer | Dec. 24, 2014 |
| Fun with Dates | Aug. 8, 2014 |
| Markdown and biblatex to HTML: some refinements | Apr. 21, 2013 |
| A (bib)latex to html workflow, for some values of “work” | Feb. 12, 2013 |
| Funny old thing (LaTeX class for Yale PhD thesis) | Mar. 10, 2012 |
| biber first aid for “data source not found” | Nov. 29, 2011 |
| ODT/XML first aid | Oct. 15, 2011 |
microblog
| “What counts is, above all, to understand” | Apr. 17, 2022 |
| “He said he had been radicalized by the experience of being chair of the math department” | Mar. 18, 2022 |
| Microblog 7: Not tweeting this | Mar. 3, 2022 |
| Microblog 6: Water is life | Nov. 2, 2021 |
| Microblog 5: neoliberalism, a primer | Dec. 19, 2018 |
| Microblog 4 | Dec. 17, 2018 |
| Microblog 3 | Dec. 12, 2018 |
| Microblog 2 | Sep. 5, 2018 |
| Microblog 1 | Aug. 22, 2018 |
modernism
| Silence of a rat come out to see | Mar. 23, 2020 |
| Modernist Studies Without Modernism: Preprint | Jan. 17, 2019 |
| Autonomy in the Journal of Dutch Literature | Dec. 23, 2015 |
| At MSA This Week | Nov. 18, 2015 |
| For Daniel Albright | Jan. 19, 2015 |
| Hatterr Abroad in Contemporary Literature | Nov. 9, 2014 |
| MSA 2012 Roundtable: Beyond Modernist Periodization | Oct. 17, 2012 |
| Modernism & Globalization Seminar Series 2012–2013 | Sep. 14, 2012 |
| New review in Studies in the Novel | Jul. 30, 2011 |
| Twentieth-Century Studies / Modernist Studies Without Modernism | Jan. 1, 2010 |
| Fictions of Autonomy | Jan. 1, 0001 |
or else
| Sign Up for Our MSA Seminar! | Aug. 31, 2015 |
proof too large to fit in margin
| What Might Have Been | Sep. 28, 2015 |
publications
| The Quiet Transformations of Literary Studies | May. 29, 2014 |
| Topic Modeling in the JDH | Apr. 21, 2013 |
| My Forthcoming Book | Dec. 14, 2011 |
| New review in Studies in the Novel | Jul. 30, 2011 |
research
| SHARP 2024 | Jun. 28, 2024 |
| “Genre Fiction without Shame” in American Literary History | Nov. 17, 2023 |
| Data Is a Sandwich | Sep. 22, 2023 |
| “Origins of the US Genre-Fiction System” in Book History | May. 16, 2023 |
| Who knows what genres lurk in the heart of man? | Apr. 27, 2022 |
| A Review of Thompson’s Book Wars | Feb. 3, 2022 |
| Silence of a rat come out to see | Mar. 23, 2020 |
| Next week at Rutgers: Data, Classification, and Everyday Life | Jan. 23, 2019 |
| Modernist Studies Without Modernism: Preprint | Jan. 17, 2019 |
| From Reproducible to Productive | Feb. 27, 2017 |
| Teaching Literary Data: What Makes It Hard | Jan. 3, 2017 |
| Title production numbers: an initial gesture | Mar. 26, 2016 |
| Autonomy in the Journal of Dutch Literature | Dec. 23, 2015 |
| For Daniel Albright | Jan. 19, 2015 |
| Hatterr Abroad in Contemporary Literature | Nov. 9, 2014 |
| Signs@40 | Oct. 29, 2014 |
site
| A site update | Feb. 23, 2016 |
| Website update | Dec. 5, 2012 |
| Next year’s classes: forthcoming soon | Mar. 10, 2012 |
| Site update | Jan. 14, 2012 |
| TeX Updates and Side Blog | Oct. 15, 2011 |
| New URL | Aug. 30, 2011 |
sociological bandwagon
| Sociology-of-Literature-a-Palooza, April 2024 | Apr. 14, 2024 |
| “Genre Fiction without Shame” in American Literary History | Nov. 17, 2023 |
| “Origins of the US Genre-Fiction System” in Book History | May. 16, 2023 |
| A Review of Thompson’s Book Wars | Feb. 3, 2022 |
| For Pascale Casanova, belatedly | Oct. 4, 2021 |
| Author, Reader, Field: 2021 edition | Aug. 13, 2021 |
| Modernist Studies Without Modernism: Preprint | Jan. 17, 2019 |
| Of Literary Standards and Logistic Regression: A Reproduction | Jan. 4, 2016 |
| At NYU this Thursday | Oct. 13, 2015 |
| What Might Have Been | Sep. 28, 2015 |
| Doing without Texts: Sapiro on Translation | Aug. 23, 2015 |
| Distant Reading: More Work to be Done | Aug. 8, 2015 |
teaching
tex
| Programmatic Lecture Slides Made Even More Difficult with R Markdown | May. 27, 2015 |
| Easy Lecture Slides Made Difficult with Pandoc and Beamer | Dec. 24, 2014 |
| Markdown and biblatex to HTML: some refinements | Apr. 21, 2013 |
| A (bib)latex to html workflow, for some values of “work” | Feb. 12, 2013 |
| LaTeX and My Book: Postscript | Jan. 6, 2013 |
| On Wishing Death to Word | Apr. 13, 2012 |
| Percent-Ampersand Is Not Shebang | Apr. 10, 2012 |
| Funny old thing (LaTeX class for Yale PhD thesis) | Mar. 10, 2012 |
| How to Begin | Jan. 22, 2012 |
| biber first aid for “data source not found” | Nov. 29, 2011 |
| LaTeX to Word: the basic issue | Nov. 11, 2011 |
| TeX Updates and Side Blog | Oct. 15, 2011 |
| ODT/XML first aid | Oct. 15, 2011 |
| Life with tex4ht: a teaser | Oct. 4, 2011 |
| hyperref makes PDFs with awesome features | Oct. 4, 2011 |
| Chicago Manual-style footnote numbers | Oct. 4, 2011 |
| Why LaTeX and Literary Studies? An Introduction | Oct. 2, 2011 |
tex4ht
| Markdown and biblatex to HTML: some refinements | Apr. 21, 2013 |
| A (bib)latex to html workflow, for some values of “work” | Feb. 12, 2013 |
| LaTeX to Word: the basic issue | Nov. 11, 2011 |
| ODT/XML first aid | Oct. 15, 2011 |
| Life with tex4ht: a teaser | Oct. 4, 2011 |
thank a feminist
| Signs@40 | Oct. 29, 2014 |
theory
| For Aijaz Ahmad | Mar. 11, 2022 |
| For Pascale Casanova, belatedly | Oct. 4, 2021 |
| Modernist Studies Without Modernism: Preprint | Jan. 17, 2019 |
| Of Literary Standards and Logistic Regression: A Reproduction | Jan. 4, 2016 |
| At NYU this Thursday | Oct. 13, 2015 |
| Distant Reading: More Work to be Done | Aug. 8, 2015 |
| At Harvard This Week | Mar. 2, 2015 |
| At Penn This Week | Oct. 13, 2014 |
| At Carnegie Mellon This Week | Sep. 29, 2014 |
| Social Science and Profanity at DH 2014 | Jul. 26, 2014 |
| The Quiet Transformations of Literary Studies | May. 29, 2014 |
| More Histories, Different Histories | Oct. 1, 2013 |
| Topic-Modeling PMLA | Dec. 13, 2012 |
totally not trolling
| At Carnegie Mellon This Week | Sep. 29, 2014 |
work
| English PhD job statistics, or, The worst is not / So long as we can say… | Nov. 20, 2023 |
| I’m on TV! Talking about money and tenure! | Oct. 14, 2022 |
| Twilight for tenure: even more data exploration | May. 31, 2022 |
| “He said he had been radicalized by the experience of being chair of the math department” | Mar. 18, 2022 |
| For Aijaz Ahmad | Mar. 11, 2022 |
| Microblog 7: Not tweeting this | Mar. 3, 2022 |
| Also literary labour not merely for the kudos of the thing | Feb. 2, 2022 |
| RCM budgeting, a failure hiding in plain sight | Dec. 15, 2021 |
| How To Reach Me | Dec. 14, 2021 |
| Twilight for tenure | Nov. 9, 2021 |
| For Pascale Casanova, belatedly | Oct. 4, 2021 |
| Rutgers’s Big Spenders | Sep. 10, 2021 |
| OUP: Recognize the OUP USA Guild | Jun. 20, 2021 |
| No layoffs, no cuts. Remarks to the Special Meeting of the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences, October 15, 2020 | Oct. 15, 2020 |
| JIL Omens | Aug. 7, 2019 |
| The Uncounted: Jobs and Graduates | Nov. 25, 2017 |
| Casualization Sensation | Sep. 29, 2017 |
| A debt | Jul. 1, 2017 |
world literature
| Kurt Wallander and the Case of the Text-Encoding Gremlins | Jul. 6, 2016 |
| At SNS 2016 | May. 12, 2016 |
| Autonomy in the Journal of Dutch Literature | Dec. 23, 2015 |
| Hatterr Abroad in Contemporary Literature | Nov. 9, 2014 |