Hello blog readers! I’m Andrea, one of the fellows in the UIowa Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio this summer. I’m in the middle of the MFA in Literary Translation Program at UIowa, and I translate from French to English. This summer I’m working on a website that includes some translations with digital features, inviting theContinue reading “Reflections on Machine Translation”
Category Archives: Digital Scholarship & Publishing
The Studio Pilots Summer Fellowship Program
This summer the Studio will pilot a new fellowship program with the help of the University of Iowa Graduate College and the Studio Steering Committee. Nine current graduate students have been named Summer Studio Fellows. The students will soon take part in an 8-week course that provides mentored digital scholarship experience, as well as training inContinue reading “The Studio Pilots Summer Fellowship Program”
Saving Endangered Data: What Can Digital Humanists and Libraries Do?
In a blog post last week, I addressed Endangered Data Week and the history of political parties hiding, removing, or altogether abolishing public access to government documents. However, my post wasn’t alone in trying to shed light on this serious issue. In schools, universities, libraries, and classrooms across the world, hundreds of concerned people came together to bring awareness to the issueContinue reading “Saving Endangered Data: What Can Digital Humanists and Libraries Do?”
Neural Network Poetry
As you may know, April is national poetry month, an annual series of events by the Academy of American Poets to help support the appreciation of American poetry. If you’re looking for great book-length collections of poems, you might be interested in the Iowa Poetry Prize winners. Many of the previous years’ winners are madeContinue reading “Neural Network Poetry”
Subreddit Algebra
Yesterday, FiveThirtyEight featured a fantastic article by Trevor Martin, a Ph.D student in Computational Biology at Stanford University. Martin’s piece, Dissecting Trump’s Most Rabid Online Following, looked at the toxic communities surrounding Donald Trump, notably r/The_Donald, by using a machine learning technique called latent semantic analysis. LSA uses words and concepts from two sets of documentsContinue reading “Subreddit Algebra”
Announcing “A Rich Revelation”: Zachary Turpin Discovers Lost Novella by Walt Whitman
Zachary Turpin, a PhD candidate in English at the University of Houston (who made international headlines in April 2016 with his discovery of a previously unknown journalistic series by the poet Walt Whitman entitled “Manly Health and Training”) has made another major find: a long-lost, secret novella, also authored by Whitman, entitled Life and AdventuresContinue reading “Announcing “A Rich Revelation”: Zachary Turpin Discovers Lost Novella by Walt Whitman”
Co-Editing a Digital Edition of Walt Whitman’s Short Fiction
The Walt Whitman Archive recently published a new digital edition of Whitman’s short fiction. Most people know Whitman as America’s poet and the author of Leaves of Grass, but in the early 1840s, he was a journalist, a newspaper editor, and the author of numerous short stories. Whitman wrote at least twenty-six (and likely more)Continue reading “Co-Editing a Digital Edition of Walt Whitman’s Short Fiction”
Writer James Alan McPherson, Iowa Writers Workshop
James Alan McPherson taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop beginning in 1981. In 1978, he received a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his Elbow Room. In 1981, he read his short story, “There was once a State Called Franklin“, the same year he was named a MacArthur Fellow, and in 1995 he was inducted into theContinue reading “Writer James Alan McPherson, Iowa Writers Workshop”
Madurese Storytellers Redesign
A redesign has been completed and launched of Madurese Storytellers, a research project by Dr. William Davies of Linguistics. The Madurese folk story project is one component of a larger endeavor of a linguistic analysis of the Madurese language (which has resulted in the publication of a grammar in 2010—A grammar of Madurese and several scholarlyContinue reading “Madurese Storytellers Redesign”
The Discovery of “Manly Health and Training”: Walt Whitman’s Long-Lost Guide to Getting the Body You’ve Always Wanted
In the third open-access issue of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (WWQR) Editor Ed Folsom and Managing Editor Stefan Schöberlein publish in full a newly discovered book-length work by the poet Walt Whitman entitled “Manly Health and Training.” Zachary Turpin, a PhD candidate in English at the University of Houston, recently discovered “Manly Health and Training,”Continue reading “The Discovery of “Manly Health and Training”: Walt Whitman’s Long-Lost Guide to Getting the Body You’ve Always Wanted”