Digital Dostoevsky has had a very busy spring, with lots of significant project developments. First, we worked with a developer, Simon Wiles, to automate the tagging of our remaining corpus of five novels and one novella for structure as well as speech and names. Simon helped us to put empty TEI headers, <p> tags to … Continue reading Spring Developments: A Summary
Author: Kate Holland
Response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
We paused after our last blog entry on Digital Dostoevsky in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its devastating consequences. As Dostoevsky scholars we have been reflecting on our field together with other Russianists and Slavists and considering a way forward that will be more critical towards the accepted paradigms of our discipline. … Continue reading Response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Bicentennial Hiatus and Updates
Happy birthday, Dostoevsky! Image by Katia Bowers This blog has been quiet for a few months because Digital Dostoevsky slowed down in the fall while Katia Bowers and I were busy organizing an international outreach program marking the Dostoevsky bicentenary, which was supported through a SSHRC Connection Grant and co-sponsored by the North American Dostoevsky … Continue reading Bicentennial Hiatus and Updates
About Me: Kate
Hi, I’m the lead investigator of Digital Dostoevsky, and an Associate Professor in the Slavic Department at the University of Toronto. My background is in the study of the nineteenth century Russian novel in general, and Dostoevsky’s novels in particular. I’m fascinated by the novel as a genre, and the different narrative strategies novelists use … Continue reading About Me: Kate
Introducing Digital Dostoevsky
What is Digital Dostoevsky? Digital Dostoevsky is a computational text analysis project on a corpus of 5 novels and two novellas by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It is a digital humanities project which emerges out of our long-standing interest in traditional philological analysis. We are excited by how digital approaches such as TEI encoding, machine reading, and … Continue reading Introducing Digital Dostoevsky
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