{"id":7868,"date":"2015-09-22T09:18:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T13:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=7868"},"modified":"2015-09-22T09:18:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T13:18:14","slug":"laura-mandell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/laura-mandell\/","title":{"rendered":"Event | &#8220;Whither the Scholarly Monograph&#8221; with Laura Mandell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/files\/2015\/09\/LauraMandell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7869\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/files\/2015\/09\/LauraMandell-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"LauraMandell\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/09\/LauraMandell-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/09\/LauraMandell-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/09\/LauraMandell-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/09\/LauraMandell-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/09\/LauraMandell-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/09\/LauraMandell-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/09\/LauraMandell-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/09\/LauraMandell-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/09\/LauraMandell-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/09\/LauraMandell-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/09\/LauraMandell-900x675.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Library and the Cogut Center for the Humanities are pleased to welcome <b>Laura Mandell<\/b>, Professor of English and Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture at Texas A&amp;M University, who will present a talk entitled, \u201cWhither the Scholarly Monograph,\u201d at <strong>3\u00a0p.m.\u00a0on Friday, October\u00a02, 2015 in the Digital Scholarship Lab<\/strong> on the first floor of the Rockefeller Library. The talk will be followed by a question and answer period along with a reception\u00a0in the DSL.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Whither the Scholarly Monograph by Dr. Laura Mandell\" width=\"1778\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NUmrXEfaGkg?list=PL2PwShbFBf4Bk6AaDM2mGixpS_7TYasyT\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Laura Mandell is Professor of English and Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture at Texas A&amp;M University. She is the author of <em>Breaking the Book: Print Humanities in the Digital Age<\/em> (2015), <em>Misogynous Economies: The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain<\/em> (1999), a Longman Cultural Edition of <em>The Castle of Otranto and Man of Feeling<\/em>, and numerous articles primarily about eighteenth-century women writers. An\u00a0article in <em>New Literary History<\/em>, \u201cWhat Is the Matter? What Literary History Neither Hears Nor Sees,\u201d describes how digital work can be used to conduct research into conceptions informing the writing and printing of eighteenth-century poetry. She is Project Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/idhmc.tamu.edu\/poetess\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poetess Archive<\/a>, an online scholarly edition and database of women poets, 1750-1900, Director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.18thconnect.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">18thConnect<\/a>, and Director of <a href=\"http:\/\/idhmc.tamu.edu\/arcgrant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ARC, the Advanced Research Consortium<\/a>, overseeing NINES, 18thConnect, and MESA.<\/p>\n<p>Her current research involves developing new methods for visualizing poetry, developing software that will allow all scholars to deep-code documents for data-mining, and improving OCR software for early modern and 18th-c. texts via high performance and cluster computing.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Mandell&#8217;s\u00a0talk is co-sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brown.edu\/academics\/humanities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cogut Center for the Humanities<\/a> and the Brown University Library\u2019s lecture series, New Directions in Scholarly Publishing and the Challenges of Evaluation.<\/p>\n<div><strong>Date<\/strong>: Friday, October\u00a02, 2015<br \/>\n<strong>Time<\/strong>:\u00a03 p.m.<br \/>\n<strong>Location<\/strong>: Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, Rockefeller Library, 10 Prospect Street, Providence<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Library and the Cogut Center for the Humanities are pleased to welcome Laura Mandell, Professor of English and Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture at Texas A&amp;M University, who will present a talk entitled, \u201cWhither the Scholarly Monograph,\u201d at 3\u00a0p.m.\u00a0on Friday, October\u00a02, 2015 in the Digital Scholarship Lab on the <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/laura-mandell\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Event | &#8220;Whither the Scholarly Monograph&#8221; with Laura Mandell<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}