Exciting news for the project! Thanks to our new SSHRC Insight Grant, longtime team member Braxton Boyer now joins Computational Dostoevsky in a new role as a postdoctoral fellow. Braxton will be taking the lead on data management for the project and assist with further research on the encoded novels. This new role also means relocation … Continue reading Braxton Boyer joins Computational Dostoevsky as Postdoctoral Fellow
New article on minimalist DH pedagogy and our undergrad TEI workshop and program
Last month we published a new article as part of a special issue of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy on "Minimalist DH Pedagogy" edited by Patricia Belen, Stefano Morello, Gregory J. Palermo, Danica Savonick, and Brandon Walsh. The full special issue can be found here, open access: JITP 27. Our article, "A Dostoevsky … Continue reading New article on minimalist DH pedagogy and our undergrad TEI workshop and program
Our First Digital Dostoevsky Research Article!
Our first research article based on the encoded corpus was published last month in Slavic Review. It came out in the first special Digital Humanities cluster in the journal. This means we're officially the first scholars to have published a piece of code in the main journal for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies! This … Continue reading Our First Digital Dostoevsky Research Article!
Digital Dostoevsky awarded new SSHRC Insight Grant
We are excited to announce that the "Digital Dostoevsky" project team was awarded a new SSHRC Insight Grant in the latest round of funding, it was announced last month. You can read the UBC release here. This funding will support the project through its next phase: finalizing our TEI edition and writing our book, Computational … Continue reading Digital Dostoevsky awarded new SSHRC Insight Grant
Adventures in Stylometry!
In May we took a class called “Computational Text Analysis with Stylometry and R” at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the UniversitĂ© de MontrĂ©al. It was run by the Krakow-based Computational Stylistics Group. Stylometry is a method that can determine an author's “style” through counting word frequencies. Recently, in the news, it has been … Continue reading Adventures in Stylometry!
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