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Stanford Literary Lab at DH 2022

Jul 25, 2022

Four talks related to LitLab projects will be presented at DH 2022 in Tokyo (virtually). Read more.

Return to Realism? Comparing 19th- and 21st-Century Novel Forms

May 26, 2022

Zuza Leniarska has been visiting the Lab on a Fulbright scholarship this year and she has been hard at work on her own project relating realism in the novel between the 19th and 21st centuries, called “Return to Realism? Comparing 19th- and 21st-Century Novel Forms." Read more.

Stanford Literary Lab at DH Unbound 2022

May 17, 2022

Three talks related to LitLab projects will be presented at DH Unbound 2022. Read more.

Young Readers Database of Literature (YRDL)

Apr 28, 2022

On April 28, 2022, Nichole Nomura, Quinn Dombrowski, and Jennifer Wolf debuted their work on the Young Readers Database of Literature (YRDL). Read more.

Presentation on Gender and Domestic Technology in Mid-Century Women’s Magazine

Mar 10, 2022

On March 10th, 2022 members of our new project on “Gender and domestic technology in mid-century Women’s magazines” presented their work investigating the postwar representation of domestic technology in the Women’s Magazine Archive, a corpus of 20th century women’s magazines, looking at fiction, advertisements, and articles from 1945 to 1975. Read more.

Presentation by Laura McGrath on “What 25,000 Book Deals Can Tell Us About Race”

Feb 17, 2022

On February 17th, 2022, we welcomed back Laura McGrath, currently an Assistant Professor at Temple University, and our former Associate Director, to talking to us about her latest work on her project “What 25,000 Book Deals Can Tell Us About Race.” Read more.

Presentation by Matt Warner on “Queer literature, theory and computational methods.”

Jan 20, 2022

On January 20th, 2022 Matt Warner presented his recent work on “Queer literature, theory and computational methods.” Read more.

Presentation on project updates

Jan 20, 2022

On December 2nd, 2021, we heard from two lab members, Nichole Nomura and Alex Sherman who updated us on their projects. Read more.

Presentation by Mark Algee-Hewitt on “Poetic Epistemologies”

Nov 11, 2021

On November 11th, 2021, Mark Algee-Hewitt presented his recent work on the new project “Poetic Epistemologies.” Read more.

Presentation by Grant Parker on “Narratives of Enslavement”

Oct 21, 2021

On October 21st, 2021, Professor Grant Parker of the Classics Department, along with his South African Collaborators, presented on their project Narratives of Enslavement. Read more.