The Long Arc of Visual Display
On November 20th, 2013, I presented a talk at the Penn Humanities Forum on the long arc of visual display. The abstract is as follows: We live in what’s been called the “golden age” of data...
View ArticleEssay in American Literature
I’m pleased to announce that my essay, “The Image of Absence: Archival Silence, Data Visualization, and James Hemings,’ has been published in the December 2013 issue of American Literature (85.4). You...
View ArticleDHCommons Workshop
As part of the DHCommons “Getting Started in the Digital Humanities” pre-conference workshop at MLA 2014, I gave a short overview of text analysis and why you might use it in your research and...
View ArticleTalk at Yale
On Thursday, February 27th, 2014, I traveled to Yale to speak about the uses of data visualization, past and present. Trip Kirkpatrick, of the Instructional Technology Group, wrote up a great summary...
View ArticleNetworks and the Commons
On March 15th, 2014, I participated in a roundtable, “Networks and the Commons,” at C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists biennial conference. My co-panelists were Ryan Cordell, Ellen...
View ArticleTalk at Digital Humanities 2014
What follows is the talk I delivered on behalf of the TOME project team at the Digital Humanities 2014 conference. We’re in the process of writing up a longer version with more technical details, but...
View ArticleFeminist Data Visualization
Last week, I traveled to Umea, Sweden, to give a talk on feminist data visualization at Umea University’s HUMlab. The abstract for this talk is as follows (slides are below): Data visualization is not...
View ArticleVisualization as Argument
What follows is the transcript of my talk, “Visualization as Argument,” presented at the Genres of Scholarly Knowledge Production conference held at the Umea University HUMlab in December 2014. The...
View ArticleThe Carework and Codework of the Digital Humanities
Below is the text of a talk delivered at the Digital Antiquarian conference in May 2015. (The slides can be downloaded from the conference website). I am grateful to the conference organizers, Molly...
View ArticleFeminist Data Visualization; Or, the Shape of History
What follows is the text of my talk at the 2017 MLA Annual Convention, slightly modified for the web. I spoke on a panel that showcased new forms of nineteenth-century digital scholarship. (Also...
View ArticleDistant Reading after Moretti
What follows is the text of a talk delivered at the 2018 MLA Annual Convention for a panel, “Varieties of Digital Humanities,” organized by Alison Booth and Miriam Posner. Marisa Parham, Alan Liu, and...
View ArticleData Feminism Community Review
I’m delighted to announce that a draft of Data Feminism has been posted on the MIT Press open-access website for online community review. We will be reviewing comments through January 7th, 2019. More...
View ArticleCover Art for Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 has a cover! It’s also available for preorder through the University of Minnesota Press. It will ship in April 2019.
View ArticleNew Publications
It’s been a minute–or, more accurately, more like two years. But in any event, here are links to some exciting new publications: An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States, is now...
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