Projects
"What I cannot create, I do not understand." — Richard Feynman
- Close Reading Essays
- Computational Text Analyses
- Digital Scholarly Editions
- Literary Translations
- Translation Commentaries
- Academic Book Reviews
- Annotated Bibliographies
- Thematic Literary Anthologies
- Interactive Fiction Games
- Constrained Literary Texts
Write your own close reading essays
- How to Do a Close Reading (Harvard College Writing Center)
- A Short Guide to Close Reading for Literary Analysis (UW–Madison Writing Center)
- Poetry Explications: Step-by-Step Guide (UNC Writing Center)
- Asking Analytical Questions (Harvard College Writing Center)
Conduct your own computational text analyses
- Corpus Analysis with spaCy (Megan S. Kane / The Programming Historian)
- Getting Started with Topic Modeling and MALLET (Shawn Graham, Scott Weingart, and Ian Milligan / The Programming Historian)
- Introduction to Stylometry with Python (François Dominic Laramée / The Programming Historian)
- Sentiment Analysis for Exploratory Data Analysis (Zoë Wilkinson Saldaña / The Programming Historian)
- Corpus Analysis with Voyant Tools (Silvia Gutiérrez De la Torre / The Programming Historian)
- Introduction to Jupyter Notebooks for Humanities Research (Quinn Dombrowski, Tassie Gniady, and David Kloster / The Programming Historian)
Build your own digital scholarly editions
- Tutorials on Text Encoding and TEI P5 (Edward Vanhoutte, Ron Van den Branden, and Melissa Terras / TEI by Example)
- Ed: A Jekyll Theme for Minimal Digital Editions (Alex Gil & Columbia University Minicomp)
- What Is the Text Encoding Initiative? (Lou Burnard / OpenEdition Press)
Produce your own literary translations
- Getting the Rights to Translate a Work: A How-To Guide (Susan Bernofsky / PEN America) - search "Getting the Rights to Translate a Work" on PEN America (pen.org)
- Guidelines for Evaluating Literary Translation in Academic Contexts (American Literary Translators Association) - search "Guidelines for Evaluating Literary Translation" on ALTA (literarytranslators.org)
Write your own translation commentaries
- Writing a Translation Commentary (Penélope Johnson / Routledge) [Paid / Monograph]
Write your own academic book reviews
Compile your own annotated bibliographies
- Annotated Bibliographies (UNC Writing Center)
- Annotated Bibliographies: Breakdown and Examples (Purdue OWL)
Curate your own thematic literary anthologies
- My Open Textbook: Pedagogy and Practice with the Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature (Robin DeRosa)
- Pressbooks User Guide for Open Anthologies and Textbooks (Pressbooks)