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Matthew Fisher, Digital Medievalism

The Digital Humanities are already an essential part of literary criticism and research as it is conducted today. This talk analyzes the uses and limitations of text-analysis and text-editing projects from the 1980s and ‘90s to the present. Ranging from Hamlet to Jane Eyre, from a medieval Middle English chronicle to the Autobiography of Mark Twain through the lens of projects such as TAPoR, Google ngrams, Juxta, and T-Pen, this talk argues for new priorities in the use (and misuse) of Digital Humanities in our research.

Matthew Fisher is Associate Professor of English at UCLA. His research focuses on the material and ideological processes of textual composition, transmission, and
circulation in medieval England. Paleography, codicology, and philology ground his investigations of translation, redaction, revision, and list-making. He is the author of
Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England (Ohio State University Press, 2012).