Close Reading, Far Reading: Using Text Analysis in Research and Scholarship
Close Reading, Far Reading: Using Text Analysis in Research and Scholarship
- Sponsors: Digital Commons, Center for Digital Humanities
- Panelists: Mark Schoenfield, professor of English, Rebecca VanDiver, assistant professor of African and African American art, and Pedro Rodriguez, postdoctoral fellow in data science and political science
- Date and Time: Monday, October 25th, 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
- Location: Digital Commons, Room 200 (upstairs)
Between born-digital texts and the digitization of archival texts, researchers in the humanities and social sciences now have digital access to large bodies of written materials. How might this access enable both new questions and new answers to old questions? What tools and techniques can faculty and scholars use to see patterns in collections of digital or digitized texts? And how do we train computers to understand the meanings encoded in these texts?
Join us for a panel of faculty and researchers who are learning and developing text analysis techniques to practice both close reading and “far” reading. Their work will provide inspiration for new approaches to your scholarship, and they will recommend ways to get started with text analysis methods.
Open to Vanderbilt faculty, staff, postdocs, and students.