Project Publications

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 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

• Avery Blankenship and Ryan Cordell, “Word Embedding Models and the Hybridity of Newspaper Genres,” with Avery Blankenship, The American Historical Review 29.1 (March 2024), https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhad493
• Ryan Cordell, “Newspapers and Periodicals as Transitional Media,” American Literature in Transition, 1851-1877, ed. Cody Marrs, Cambridge University Press (2022), pre-print available
• Ryan Cordell, “Speculative Bibliography,”, Anglia 138:3 (September 2020), special “Archives” issue, ed. Daniel Stein
• Ryan Cordell and Abby Mullen, ‘Fugitive Verses’: The Circulation of Poems in Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers,” American Periodicals 27.1 (Spring 2017).
• Ryan Cordell, “Reprinting, Circulation, and the Network Author in Antebellum Newspapers” and David A. Smith, Ryan Cordell, and Abby Mullen, “Computational Methods for Uncovering Reprinted Texts in Antebellum Newspapers”, published in American Literary History 27.3 (August 2015).
• Ryan Cordell, “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)
• David A. Smith, Ryan Cordell, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Nick Stramp, and John Wilkerson, “Detecting and Modeling Local Text Reuse.” In IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 183–92. London, United Kingdom: IEEE (2014), https://doi.org/10.1109/JCDL.2014.6970166.
• Shaobin Xu, David Smith, Abigail Mullen, and Ryan Cordell. “Detecting and Evaluating Local Text Reuse in Social Networks,” in Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Social Dynamics and Personal Attributes in Social Media, 50–57. Baltimore, Maryland: Association for Computational Linguistics, (2014), https://doi.org/10.3115/v1/W14-2707.
• David A. Smith, Ryan Cordell, and Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, “Infectious Texts: Modeling Text Reuse in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers,” published in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Big Humanities (IEEE Computer Society Press, 2013).