ARCADE | Literature, the Humanities, & the World

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What Happened to White Privilege
by David Shih2015
Can the concept of white privilege stand in the way of learning about racism? more
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On The Latest Recipes for The Cookshops of the Future
by Anthony Galluzzo2015
Will the socialist proletariat of the future eat Jello-O or hand-ground tortillas? more
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Piketty's Model: Literary History without Fixed Objects
by Ted Underwood2015
Ted Underwood provides a data-driven counterargument to Thomas Piketty's claim that specific references to money disappeared from literature after World War I. more
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Occupy the Humanities
by Gregory Jusdanis2015
Student protests in Amsterdam, budget cuts, and the future of the humanities. more

Featured Colloquies

21st-Century Marxisms

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Adam Morris

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We, Reading, Now

Curators

Dalglish Chew, Julie Orlemanski

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The Nature of Literary Being

Curator

Nancy Ruttenburg

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Modernism's Unfinished Business?

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Rey Chow

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Recent Multimedia

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From Numbers to Evidence: Computer-Assisted Scholarship in the Million-Book Era

by David Mimno

In this exciting talk, David Mimno outlines the limitations and uses of representational modeling by employing examples from Minecraft, data on U.S. gun ownership, and 19th-century novels.
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Small, Large, ‘What’ and ‘So What’: Perspectives and Challenges in Corpus Linguistics

by Susan Conrad

Applied linguist Susan Conrad looks to engineering writing to highlight differences between theoretical and practical communication.
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Paragraphs: The Forgotten Middle

by Mark Algee-Hewitt / Ryan Heuser / Franco Moretti

Mark Algee-Hewitt, Ryan Heuser, and Franco Moretti of the Stanford Literary Lab present their research on the "natural habitat of topics": paragraphs.

Publications

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Experimental Architecture: Cervantes’s 'Curioso impertinente' on the English Stage

by Marina Brownlee

How Cervantes's novella is reconfigured as Thomas Middleton's play, and the varying modes of cognition negotiated by this adaptation.
Occasion Article
The Pedagogy of the Indebted Student; or, What I Learned from a Classroom Failure

by Marcia Klotz

Why debt and its remedies look different in the classroom and on the street.
Rofl Article
Secular Spectacle? Cervantes, Hardy, and the Question of Religion

by Sonia Velázquez

How a controversial Cervantes story and its French version help us reimagine early modern religion as circulation and mediation rather than sacralization

Recent Blogs

What Happened to White Privilege

Can the concept of white privilege stand in the way of learning about racism?

On The Latest Recipes for The Cookshops of the Future

by Anthony Galluzzo

Will the socialist proletariat of the future eat Jello-O or hand-ground tortillas?

Occupy the Humanities

by Gregory Jusdanis

Student protests in Amsterdam, budget cuts, and the future of the humanities.

The Last Café in Klidi

by Gregory Jusdanis

A personal vision of how social change and climate change are connected in complicated ways.

The Hamlet Effect

by Holly Crocker

Shakespeare's famous play cautions against thinking ourselves at the center of a drama of vengeance.