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  • December 19, 2025

    Critical Approaches to AI Working Group Releases Whitepaper

    Formed in the Spring of 2025, the Critical Approaches to AI Working Group meets regularly to discuss how the rise of AI has impacted teaching, learning, and research. 

    Formed in the Spring of 2025, the Critical Approaches to AI Working Group meets regularly to discuss how the rise of AI has impacted teaching, learning, and research. 

    In the Fall of 2025, the group focused its attention on drafting a white paper meant to address the challenges that generative AI poses for instruction in critical reading, writing, and research—skills vital to the humanities and foundational for all learning—and advocating for new forms of AI-free instruction.You can find the paper, titled High Standards for Critical Reading, Writing and Research in the Age of AI, HERE.

     

  • August 22, 2025

    Jim English and J.D. Porter: The Eclectic Reader

    Former Factulty Director Jim English and J.D.

    Former Factulty Director Jim English and J.D. Porter, current Associate Director of Digital Research in the Humanities, have published The Eclectic Reader in the journal Cultural Analytics. The article is is based on research they have been doing for several years on readeing habits based on data from the website Good Reads. They offer insight into the concept of eclecticism when it comes to reading as well the production and the uses of literary genre in the digital age. Read it here: https://culturalanalytics.org/article/142979-the-eclectic-reader

     

    Jim and J.D.

    Photo: Eric Sucar

  • August 22, 2025

    Angelina Eimannsberger: Our Golden Age of Reading (Online)

    We are extremely excited to see Angelina Eimannsberger (Price Lab Fellow 2021-22) in the latest Public Books.

    We are extremely excited to see Angelina Eimannsberger (Price Lab Fellow 2021-22) in the latest Public Books. Her reveiw of Federico Pianzola’s new book Digital Social Reading: Sharing Fiction in the Twenty-First Century is a facinating look at how we read, share, and make distinctions in the age of BookTok. Check it out here: https://www.publicbooks.org/our-golden-age-of-reading-online/

     

    Angelina Eimannsberger
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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...

  • 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