Blog Archive

Fall 2024 Courses

— teaching

SHARP 2024

— events • research

Sociology-of-Literature-a-Palooza, April 2024

— events • sociological-bandwagon

Spring 2024 Courses

— teaching

English PhD job statistics, or, The worst is not / So long as we can say…

— work

“Genre Fiction without Shame” in American Literary History

— research • genre • sociological-bandwagon

Data Is a Sandwich

— research • teaching • dh

Fall 2023 Courses: Which Way to Meatspace?

— teaching

Some cultural datasets for teaching use

— teaching • dh • kludgetastic

Spring 2023 teaching materials

— teaching

Some Annotations for Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood

— teaching

“Origins of the US Genre-Fiction System” in Book History

— research • genre • sociological-bandwagon

Some Annotations for Agha Shahid Ali’s Call Me Ishmael Tonight

— teaching

Spring 2023 Courses: The Curious Adventure of the Big Sleep of Petals in a Blue Dress of Blood. Also, Poetry

— teaching

I’m on TV! Talking about money and tenure!

— work

Fall 2022 Courses: Hidden Agenda Revealed!

— teaching • dh

Self-deprecation, or, old software staggers on

— dh • kludgetastic

Twilight for tenure: even more data exploration

— work

Who knows what genres lurk in the heart of man?

— research • genre

“What counts is, above all, to understand”

— microblog • dh

“He said he had been radicalized by the experience of being chair of the math department”

— microblog • work

For Aijaz Ahmad

— work • theory

Microblog 7: Not tweeting this

— microblog • work

A Review of Thompson’s Book Wars

— research • sociological-bandwagon • dh

Also literary labour not merely for the kudos of the thing

— work

RCM budgeting, a failure hiding in plain sight

— work

How To Reach Me

— work • kludgetastic

Twilight for tenure

— work

Microblog 6: Water is life

— microblog

For Pascale Casanova, belatedly

— work • theory • sociological-bandwagon

Rutgers’s Big Spenders

— work

Author, Reader, Field: 2021 edition

— teaching • sociological-bandwagon

OUP: Recognize the OUP USA Guild

— work

Some Annotations for Terrance Hayes’s American Sonnets

— teaching

Spring 2021 courses

— teaching

No layoffs, no cuts. Remarks to the Special Meeting of the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences, October 15, 2020

— work

A Science-Fiction Syllabus

— teaching

Silence of a rat come out to see

— research • modernism

JIL Omens

— work

New features for dfr-browser/dfrtopics

— kludgetastic • dh

Next week at Rutgers: Data, Classification, and Everyday Life

— events • research

Modernist Studies Without Modernism: Preprint

— research • modernism • sociological bandwagon • DH • theory

Microblog 5: neoliberalism, a primer

— microblog

Microblog 4

— microblog

Microblog 3

— microblog

Microblog 2

— microblog

Microblog 1

— microblog

The Uncounted: Jobs and Graduates

— work

Casualization Sensation

— work

Mounting Network Volumes via osascript in Sierra

— kludgetastic

Syllabuses for Fall 2017

— teaching

A debt

— work

Statilisticles

— kludgetastic

Course descriptions for Fall 2017

— teaching

From Reproducible to Productive

— research • DH

Teaching Literary Data: What Makes It Hard

— DH • teaching • research

Course descriptions for Spring 2017

— teaching

Notes on Using Digital Media for First-Year Graduate Students

— DH • teaching

Kurt Wallander and the Case of the Text-Encoding Gremlins

— genre • world literature • DH • arcade

At SNS 2016

— events • world literature

Title production numbers: an initial gesture

— research

Course descriptions for Fall 2016

— teaching

A site update

— site

Of Literary Standards and Logistic Regression: A Reproduction

— DH • theory • sociological bandwagon • kludgetastic

Autonomy in the Journal of Dutch Literature

— Fictions of Autonomy • modernism • world literature • research

At MSA This Week

— events • modernism

At NYU this Thursday

— events • DH • sociological bandwagon • theory

What Might Have Been

— sociological bandwagon • DH • proof too large to fit in margin

dfrtopics, hold the dfr

— DH • kludgetastic

Topic modeling: a software update

— DH • kludgetastic

Sign Up for Our MSA Seminar!

— or else • events

Doing without Texts: Sapiro on Translation

— sociological bandwagon • DH

Distant Reading: More Work to be Done

— DH • theory • sociological bandwagon

Programmatic Lecture Slides Made Even More Difficult with R Markdown

— DH • kludgetastic • TeX

At Temple This Week

— events • DH

Terry Pratchett: “Not having battles, and doing without kings”

— genre • arcade

At Harvard This Week

— events • theory

rJava, Yosemite, R, RStudio

— kludgetastic • DH

For Daniel Albright

— research • modernism • Fictions of Autonomy

Easy Lecture Slides Made Difficult with Pandoc and Beamer

— TeX • DH • kludgetastic

Signs@40 Celebration and Panel Discussion

— events • DH

Hatterr Abroad in Contemporary Literature

— research • modernism • world literature

At the Modernist Studies Association This Week

— events

Signs@40

— research • DH • thank a feminist

At Penn This Week

— DH • events • theory

At Carnegie Mellon This Week

— events • DH • theory • totally not trolling

Spring 2015 Courses

— teaching • DH

Fun with Dates

— DH • kludgetastic

Social Science and Profanity at DH 2014

— DH • events • theory • arcade

At DH 2014

— DH • events

The Quiet Transformations of Literary Studies

— DH • theory • publications

Fall 2014 Courses

— teaching

In Utrecht This Week: The Ethics of Literary Autonomy

— events • Fictions of Autonomy

The DH@RU Showcase

— DH • events

Omnivorousness, Elite Taste, Literary Scholarship

— arcade • DH

At MLA 2014

— events • DH

Workshop notes: Digital text

— DH • events

DH Workshop Tomorrow: Empowerment Part II

— DH • events

Do Not Despair, Do Not Presume

— DH

A journal-topic-model browser

— DH

Upcoming DH events in October

— DH • events

More Histories, Different Histories

— events • theory

Indian Literature As Comparative Literature

— events

Vannevar Bush, Eat Your Heart Out

— DH

My book in digital form

— Fictions of Autonomy

Markdown and biblatex to HTML: some refinements

— TeX • TeX4ht • kludgetastic

Topic Modeling in the JDH

— DH • publications

At ACLA 2013

— events

Benjamin’s “Work of Art” in the Age of Production

— DH • arcade

Two Upcoming Events

— events • DH

A (bib)latex to html workflow, for some values of “work”

— TeX • TeX4ht • kludgetastic

A “strategic vision”

— arcade

Remarks to the Comparative Modernisms Workshop at Northwestern

— Fictions of Autonomy • events

Monday: Discussing My Book at Northwestern

— Fictions of Autonomy • events

LaTeX and My Book: Postscript

— TeX • Fictions of Autonomy

My Book, Available at MLA

— Fictions of Autonomy • events

Book event at Northwestern, January 14

— Fictions of Autonomy • events

Topic-Modeling PMLA

— DH • joint • arcade • theory

Website update

— site

MSA 2012 Roundtable: Beyond Modernist Periodization

— events • modernism

THATCamp Theory 2012: Session proposal

— DH • events

Modernism & Globalization Seminar Series 2012–2013

— events • modernism

A draft of my Spring 2012 graduate seminar syllabus

— teaching

Fall 2012 Courses at Rutgers

— teaching

The Short Life of Publishing Tradition

— arcade

Distant Cousins: Literary Studies and Thompson’s Merchants of Culture

— arcade

On Wishing Death to Word

— TeX

Percent-Ampersand Is Not Shebang

— TeX

Fall 2012 Courses at Rutgers

— teaching

ACLA Seminar in Providence: Bad Reception

— events

Funny old thing (LaTeX class for Yale PhD thesis)

— TeX • kludgetastic

Next year’s classes: forthcoming soon

— site • teaching

How to Begin

— TeX

Site update

— site

My Forthcoming Book

— publications • Fictions of Autonomy

ACLA 2012

— events

Literary Foundations II website

— teaching

biber first aid for “data source not found”

— TeX • kludgetastic

LaTeX to Word: the basic issue

— TeX • TeX4ht

ODT/XML first aid

— TeX • kludgetastic • TeX4ht

TeX Updates and Side Blog

— TeX • site

Chicago Manual-style footnote numbers

— TeX

hyperref makes PDFs with awesome features

— TeX

Life with tex4ht: a teaser

— TeX • TeX4ht

Why LaTeX and Literary Studies? An Introduction

— TeX

A Colloquy on Autonomy

— arcade

New URL

— site

New review in Studies in the Novel

— publications • modernism

Close Reading as Genre

— arcade

Is literature the least giftworthy of the arts?

— arcade

Race, Ethnicity, Brains: Some Marginalia

— arcade

Export Duties

— arcade

A Bad Time Was Had by All

— arcade • Fictions of Autonomy

N-gram, Corpus, Field

— arcade • DH

Riding the Escalator

— arcade

Twenty Nobel Lectures in Literature (3)

— arcade

Twenty Nobel Lectures in Literature (2)

— arcade

Twenty Nobel Lectures in Literature (1)

— arcade

“Positivist” and Other Terms of Praise

— arcade

tvtropes.org, the Future of the Humanities

— arcade • DH

Going Negative, or, Why Not Jeeves?

— arcade • Fictions of Autonomy

Twentieth-Century Studies / Modernist Studies Without Modernism

— modernism