Stanford Literary Lab

Wednesday, May 11 3:00 pm Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall

The Stanford Literary Lab is proud to announce the publication of our second Pamphlet, “Network Theory, Plot Analysis” by Franco Moretti. Although this piece appeared recently in the New Left Review, it arrives here [the permission for which we thank the editorial board of NLR] with a greatly expanded collection of figures; an epilogue discussing …

Co-director of the Lab Matthew Jockers was featured in the Stanford Report on December 1st in an article provocatively titled, “Non-consumptive research? Text mining? Welcome to the hotspot of humanities research at Stanford.” Why non-consumptive? Because in this kind of work one doesn’t necessarily aim to read, or to consume, the object of research. Jockers: …

Literary Lab Directors Moretti and Jockers were awarded a share of a $790,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to support their work analyzing style and theme in the 19th century novel.  The project is part of a collaboration with the National Center for Super Computing Applications (NCSA) and the Software Environment for the Advancement of …

Some interesting (some silly) thoughts about the work being done in the Lab are being registered over at The Valve.

This week the front page of the Chronicle of Higher Education features an article about our work in the Stanford Literature lab.  An on line version of the article is available at http://chronicle.com/article/The-Humanities-Go-Google/65713/ The Chronicle is hosting a live on line debate / discussion about the article this Thursday, June 3.

Last week The Human Experience, a Stanford publication about the humanities on Campus, published a story about our work text-mining 19th century novels.

The newly formed Stanford Literature lab won financial support from the President’s Fund for Innovation in the Humanities and the Stanford Institute for Creativity & the Arts