Andrew Piper

Corpus Poetics: Thinking the Writer's Career with Data

Lecture

Corpus Poetics: Thinking the Writer's Career with Data

Thursday, September 20th, 2018

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Geballe Room, Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley

Seminar

What Can Machine Learning Teach Us About Literature?

Thursday, September 20th, 2018

11:00 am -12:30 pm

Geballe Room, Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley

Readings: The Life Cycle of Genres and The Tell-Tale Hat: Surfacing the Uncertainty in Folklore Classification

Andrew Piper is a Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University. He directs .txtLAB, a digital humanities laboratory at McGill, and is editor of the new web-based, open-access journal, CA: Journal of Cultural Analytics. He is the author of over two-dozen articles in major academic and popular journals, as well as the books Dreaming in Books (2009; Winner of the MLA Prize for a First Book), Book Was There (2012), Interacting with Print (2017), and, most recently, Enumerations: Data and Literary Study (2018).

Sponsored by the UC Berkeley Department of Comparative Literature, the School of Information, Digital Humanities at Berkeley, the D-Lab, the Townsend Center for the Humanities, and the UC Berkeley Library