Book Project
We are currently working on a hybrid digital-print book project, Going the Rounds: Virality in Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers through the University of Minnesota’s Manifold Scholarship Initiative. Five draft chapters are currently published online:
- Ryan Cordell, “Viral Textuality”
- Ryan Cordell and David A. Smith, “Editing a Paper”
- David A. Smith and Ryan Cordell, “Textual Criticism as Language Modeling”
- Jonathan D. Fitzgerald and Ryan Cordell, “Classifying Vignettes, Modeling Hybridity”.
- Avery Blankenship and Ryan Cordell, “Reprinting Wright”
Online Exhibits and Visualizations
- (under construction) Explore the interactive exhibit, “A Love Letter to Viral Texts.”
- Browse a growing, barebones edition of popular newspaper poetry uncovered in the project: “Fugitive Verses.”
- Look over some sample visualizations produced for the project.
- Browse a sample of the network graphs produced during the project.
Published Papers
- “Speculative Bibliography,”, Anglia 138:3 (September 2020), special “Archives” issue, ed. Daniel Stein
- ‘Fugitive Verses’: The Circulation of Poems in Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers,” American Periodicals 27.1 (Spring 2017).
- “Reprinting, Circulation, and the Network Author in Antebellum Newspapers” and “Computational Methods for Uncovering Reprinted Texts in Antebellum Newspapers”, published in American Literary History 27.3 (August 2015).
- “Viral Textuality in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Newspaper Exchanges,” in Virtual Victorians: Networks, Connections, Technologies, ed. Veronica Alfano and Andrew Stauffer, Palgrave MacMillan (May 2015)
- “Detecting and Modeling Local Text Reuse,” published in the Proceedings of IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (IEEE Computer Society Press, 2014).
- “Detecting and Evaluating Local Text Reuse in Social Networks,” published in the Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Social Dynamics and Personal Attributes (Association for Computational Linguists, 2014).
- “Infectious Texts: Modeling Text Reuse in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers,” published in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Big Humanities (IEEE Computer Society Press, 2013).