Exploring the Digital Humanities: An Interview with Mark Algee-Hewitt, Ph.D.
Abstract
Mark Algee-Hewitt is an Assistant Professor in the department of English and the Co-Director of the Stanford Literary Lab. His work focuses on the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in England and Germany and seeks to combine literary criticism with digital and quantitative analyses of literary texts. In particular, he is interested in the history of aesthetic theory and the development and transmission of aesthetic and philosophic concepts during the Enlightenment and Romantic periods. He is also interested in the relationship between aesthetic theory and the poetry of the long eighteenth century. At the Literary Lab, Dr. Algee-Hewitt leads projects on suspense literature, the relationship between titles and texts in the long eighteenth century, and gender performance in the dialogue of novels written during the Romantic period. He is also a collaborator on the Canon/Archive project, Micromegas, the Transhistorical Poetry project, Modeling Dramatic Networks, and a project on the Supreme Court and Environmental Law. Outside of Stanford, Dr. Algee-Hewitt is a partner in the ongoing NovelTM partnership grant and is an associate principal investigator of the Stanford branch of the Global Currents Digging into Data project. Building on this work, he has ongoing collaborations with Andrew Piper at the .txt lab at McGill University in Montreal, and with the North American Concept Lab, based at New York University. He is also a member of the executive board of 18thConnect and is on the visualization advisory committee of the Digital Mitford project.
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2015-12-16
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