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Braxton Boyer joins Computational Dostoevsky as Postdoctoral Fellow

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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

Digital Dostoevsky awarded new SSHRC Insight Grant

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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

Reencoding Crime and Punishment for Network Analysis

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After finishing encoding our corpus at the end of last year, we’ve been working on speech network analysis. Network analysis is a method that creates a visualization of connections between elements such as characters, authors, or places within a given dataset. It’s a great method for analyzing patterns in texts like characters’ relationships to one … Continue reading Reencoding Crime and Punishment for Network Analysis

We’re Baaack!

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We’re back! Actually we didn’t go anywhere and the project has been progressing well in the last couple of years although we’ve clearly been failing to update the blog. I’m writing this entry overlooking the Strait of Georgia from Katia’s office on the stunning UBC campus after doing our first in-person Digital Humanities Summer Institute … Continue reading We’re Baaack!