Reading with Scientists: Annotate. Advocate.
by Abigail Droge
Published October 22, 2018
The version of Frankenstein central to the “Reading with Scientists” syllabus is “Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds” (MIT […]
Reading with Scientists: Frankenstein and CRISPR
by Abigail Droge
Published October 15, 2018
We have reached the heart of Frankenstein. This week in “Reading with Scientists,” we paired Shelley’s novel with selections on the genome-editing […]
Reading with Scientists, Week 1: Beginning with Frankenstein
by Abigail Droge
Published October 8, 2018
How would you characterize the current relationship between literature and science at UCSB? This question kicked off our first day of “Reading […]
Reading with Scientists: Syllabus Design
by Abigail Droge
Published October 1, 2018
To celebrate the first day of “Reading with Scientists: How to Export Literature,” I’d like to share our syllabus (attached below) and […]
The Purpose of Interpretation and Theory?
by Dan C. Baciu
Published September 12, 2018
Between dense methodological and theoretical work, the wonderful news reaches me that the writer T. A. Barron just donated to UCSB to […]
Five Principles for Teaching Humanities Advocacy
by Abigail Droge
Published September 5, 2018
As I prepare to bring humanities advocacy into the classroom this year, I want to reflect on some initial guiding principles. I […]
A Literary Theory Interpretive Protocol for WE1S
by Joyce McGee Brummet, Mauro Carassai, Dr. Colleen Tripp, and Katie Wolf
Published August 2, 2018
The act of interpreting a topic (of a topic model) requires any reader to make sense of a list of words. However, […]
Compiling a Latin American Corpus: Reflections
by Kenia Rodriguez and Vanessa López
Published August 2, 2018
This summer, the Latin America team completed a variety of interesting tasks to create a foundational corpus of Mexico, Central America, and […]
A Summer 2018 Saga: Webscraping for Subcorpora
by Rebecca Baker, Sean Gilleran, Sihwa Park, and Ray Steding
Published August 2, 2018
The What Every 1 Says (WE1S) project aims to visualize public discourse on the humanities across many different states, countries, and regions. […]
“Shall These Things Live?” Evaluating the Humanities in Newspapers during the Great Depression
by Kajsa Philippa Niehusen
Published August 1, 2018
During our summer research camp, and as part of our “Historical Humanities” team, I began scanning ProQuest databases and the digital collections […]
