Last week was a big week: we finished Beloved, received assignments for our Voyant Tools presentations, and read through W.E.B. Dubois’s data portraits. From seeing the name of the Dubois book, I had actually been assuming these were contemporary data portraits generated from Dubois’s writing, given that this was a computational literary studies class; it… Continue reading Reading Literature With Computers: Week Four Blog
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Reading Literature with Computers: Week Three Blog
I’m late writing this one, possibly because I’ve had a lot of thoughts about the process of reading Beloved in this class percolating in my head this week, which I’ve had to take some time to process and articulate. Firstly, I’ve really been wowed by the stylistic shifts in Book Two. The stream-of-consciousness style dramatic… Continue reading Reading Literature with Computers: Week Three Blog
Reading Literature with Computers, Week 2 Blog
Beloved is in some ways an unusual reading experience for me. A lot of books, I feel capable of reading assigned page numbers in sections, or of combining reading them with something else being sort-of-on-my-mind. But I think part of what makes Beloved so emotionally affective its immersive quality, both in terms of the prose… Continue reading Reading Literature with Computers, Week 2 Blog
Reading Literature with Computers: Week of January 10
One week into Reading Literature with Computers, I’m feeling very excited for the course! This is in some ways a familiar course to me as a digital studies major – I’ve dabbled in text analysis tools for DGST courses here, done some preliminary research on stylometry back in high school, and once spent a self-absorbed… Continue reading Reading Literature with Computers: Week of January 10
ARTS 104: Final Project
For my ARTS 104 class, Digital Approaches to Fine Arts with Professor Jason Robinson, I chose to return to our dive into Adobe Photoshop’s snipping and color adjustment tools to create a series of fantastical landscapes. I really enjoy visual art outside of the context of school, but I don’t often get to apply it… Continue reading ARTS 104: Final Project
Where Light Doesn’t Die: An Interactive Personal Essay
As of the spring of my senior year, I’ve taken three classes (intro to creative writing, nonfiction writing, and a senior seminar in nonfiction) with Professor Colin Rafferty, UMW’s creative nonfiction professor, and three with Dr. Zach Whalen, UMW’s electronic literature expert. For Dr. Whalen’s Spring 2021 Electronic Literature class, I combined what I loved… Continue reading Where Light Doesn’t Die: An Interactive Personal Essay
DGST 101 Podcast: Social Media Notifications and Addictive Design
This is definitely not a “professional”-grade podcast, but this assignment was my first experience with audio recording and editing, and I certainly remember learning a lot from it, not least the mortifying ordeal of having to listen to your own recorded voice! I remember being proud of inserting the (free for use) jarring notification sounds… Continue reading DGST 101 Podcast: Social Media Notifications and Addictive Design
Mapping American Realist Fiction
This project for my DGST 101 Methodology Module was my first experience both with digital mapping and with the kind of public-facing work that digital humanists engage in. I based it in the syllabus for Dr. Gary Richards’s American Realism class, which I took in Spring 2019 and which later inspired my senior honors capstone… Continue reading Mapping American Realist Fiction
A Foray into Interactive Fiction: “The Starless Night”
It takes a brave soul to keep fiction you wrote at up on the Internet, but let it be known: this was my first foray into electronic literature, specifically into using Twine, and I was very proud of it at the time, not least because I spent a lot of time and effort and just-tinkering-with-Twine-instead-of-reading-instruction-manuals… Continue reading A Foray into Interactive Fiction: “The Starless Night”
