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    October 30, 2024

    DEEP 2.0 in Omnia

    The Price Lab is thrilled that DEEP 2.0, the newly renovated Database of Early English Playbooks, is live.

    The Price Lab is thrilled that DEEP 2.0, the newly renovated Database of Early English Playbooks, is live. The project is directed by Penn's own Zachary Lesser and, from The Ohio State University, Alan Farmer. The technical work was completed by done Andy Janco from the Penn Libraries' Research Data and Digital Scholarhsip team. Read more about the project in the most recent issue of Omnia: https://omnia.sas.upenn.edu/story/database-early-english-playbooks-revam...

  • October 28, 2024

    We're Hiring! Associate Director of Digital Research in the Humanities

    Based in the Price Lab for Digital Humanities, the Associate Director of Digital Research in the Humanities works closely with Price Lab staff and collaborators to imagine, design, and build projec

    Based in the Price Lab for Digital Humanities, the Associate Director of Digital Research in the Humanities works closely with Price Lab staff and collaborators to imagine, design, and build projects that take advantage of accessible and sustainable digital humanities tools. In addition to project-based work, the Associate Director of Digital Research in the Humanities is an important member of the scholarly network at Penn who develops and teaches workshops and stays current on relevant technologies, methods, and debates within critical/creative digital humanities, broadly construed. This includes developing original scholarship in collaboration with the Price Lab and other members of the DH community at Penn and beyond. The start date for this position is flexible and could range from January 2025 to Summer 2025.

    Full Details here: https://bit.ly/3Ur3E8g

  • December 5, 2023

    Joan Dejean, 1948-2023

    We're sad to learn Joan Dejean passed away over the weekend. Joan worked with DH Specialist Cassandra Hradil and Ph.D.

    We're sad to learn Joan Dejean passed away over the weekend. Joan worked with DH Specialist Cassandra Hradil and Ph.D. candidate Paule Carbonnel in the Price Lab to develop an interactive map of the French Quarter in New Orleans, related to the last of her many and influential books, Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast. Our thoughts go out to Joan’s family.

    Read the full rememberance here: https://almanac.upenn.edu/articles/joan-dejean-romance-languages

  • November 10, 2023

    Genre Juggernaut: Measuring "Romance"

    J. D. Porter, Angelina Eimannsberger, James English, May Hathaway, & Ashna Yakoob come together to write about the literary genre of “romance” and its presence in the literature industry.

    J. D. Porter, Angelina Eimannsberger, James English, May Hathaway, & Ashna Yakoob come together to write about the literary genre of “romance” and its presence in the literature industry. Read the full article here. 

     

  • September 23, 2022

    Price Lab Alum Zain Mian Takes Faculty Position at the University of Toronto

    “The Price Mellon Fellowship helped me approach [postcolonial literature] at a scale and in ways that I had not thought possible.”


    We were thrilled to hear from our former summer grad fellow Zain Mian that he will begin a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Urdu Language, Literature, and Performance at the University of Toronto in July 2023.  Zain will be overseeing the development of Urdu literary studies and language teaching at the university.  He will hold a joint appointment in the English and Language Studies departments, as well an appointment to the Graduate Group in the Center for Comparative Literature. He will also be affiliated with the Center for South Asian Civilizations. 

    As a 2020 Price Mellon Graduate Fellow, Zain undertook a computational study of the postcolonial literary canon. His project aimed to explore the boundaries of the postcolonial canon by comparing the prominence of  certain literary works on Goodreads with the likelihood of their appearance on PhD Comprehensive Exams lists. As Zain describes the experience, “Working with the Price Lab, I developed a new digital skillset that sharpened my understanding of literary institutions and canon formation. The Price Mellon Fellowship helped me approach my topic at a scale and in ways I had not previously thought possible. I found it invaluable for the practical skills I developed and the new perspectives I gained on my work.”

    Congratulations to Zain from the Price Lab staff!