Group blog
Scalable Reading is a collaborative blog that brings together four literary critics who are interested in quite different topics and approach them with quite different substantive or methodological assumptions but share the belief that digital texts and tools for their analysis have much to offer to the discipline of Literary Studies.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
data curation Shakespeare His Contemporaries crowdsourcing undergraduate work EEBO-TCP scalable reading
22 November 2022
‘Crowner,’ Shakespeare’s word for ‘coroner’ appears in two plays, and on both occasions it is associated with death by drowning. It appears in the discussion of the two...
“Fluent in Marlowe”: A decade of undergraduates as collaborative curators of Early Modern texts
22 November 2022
In a course on Early Modern Drama that I taught in 2009 I gave my students the option of doing editorial work for some of their assignments. Two of themREAD MORE
Back to the Future or Wanted: A Decade of High-tech Lower Criticism
17 November 2022
Note:The title of this blog entry is the title of a keynote address I gave at the Chicago Digital Humanities and Computer Science Colloqium, held November 18-19 , 2012 at the University...
30 September 2022
Below is a report about Cogan’s Haven of Health, a text that the authors collaboratively curated, reducing its more than 1,000 incompletely or incorrectly transcribed words to no...