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Setting the Foundation: Understanding WWP Authors’ Citations as Early Feminist Praxis

Setting the Foundation: Understanding WWP Authors’ Citations as Early Feminist Praxis

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By Alanna Prince, Ph.D. Candidate in English My latest efforts on The WWP’s Intertextual Networks project have made evident just how meticulous women writers were in their citation. Authors like Lady Damaris Masham and Joanna Southcott quoted and engaged with Scripture and other texts frequently in their works, showing not just that they were readers and consumers of texts, but also that they were able to produce critiques that were eloquent, sharp, and pointed. Further, through citation, these women were…

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Struggling to Teach with Word Vectors

Struggling to Teach with Word Vectors

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By Hayley C. Stefan (she/her) This post is part of a series we are publishing with projects from the WWP’s Institutes Series: Word Vectors for the Thoughtful Humanist. In May 2021, seemingly a lifetime ago, I had the opportunity to attend Word Vectors for the Thoughtful Humanist, a week-long pedagogy-focused workshop put on by the Women’s Writers Project at Northeastern University, funded by an NEH Institutes for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities grant. One of our goals for the workshop was to think…

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Research with WWP Data at the AI/Machine Learning Research Bootcamp

Research with WWP Data at the AI/Machine Learning Research Bootcamp

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By Haripriya Mehta, Co-founder, MehtA+  In Summer 2022, 15 high school students from all over the world participated in MehtA+’s AI/Machine Learning Research Bootcamp and learned the theory and application of machine learning. Students learned various AI/Machine Learning models including KNN, support vector machines, artificial neural networks, and topics in computer vision and natural language processing.  The students put their newfound knowledge into practice through an exploratory week-long midterm project. The objective of the midterm was to predict the gender of the…

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Using encoding to teach textual analysis

Using encoding to teach textual analysis

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By Jessica Kane, Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Albion College This collaboration was part of the WWP’s Teaching Partners program; for more information, see the digital edition created by the students or watch this short video on the project.  Eliza Haywood’s novella “Fantomina” (1725) begins by introducing the reader to “A YOUNG Lady of distinguished Birth, Beauty, Wit, and Spirit” (258) who creates four different personas, seduces the same man four different times, and ends up banished to a convent…

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Announcing the launch of Women Writers: Intertextual Networks

Announcing the launch of Women Writers: Intertextual Networks

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We are very excited to announce a new open-access research tool! Women Writers: Intertextual Networks is the result of a three-year project focusing on intertextuality in early women’s writing. This collaborative research initiative examined the citation and quotation practices of the authors represented in Women Writers Online (WWO) to explore and theorize the representation of intertextuality, and to study the ways in which early women writers named, cited, quoted, and remixed texts by other authors. We identified and encoded each of…

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New visualizations for Intertextual Networks

New visualizations for Intertextual Networks

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We are very excited to share two new visualizations developed by Nicole Samay and Ana Pastore y Piontti, Network Science Institute, using data from the Intertextual Networks project. Intertextual Networks is a three-year research project funded by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, focusing on intertextuality in early women’s writing. This collaborative research initiative examines the citation and quotation practices of the authors represented in Women Writers Online (WWO) to explore and theorize the representation of intertextuality. As part of…

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New WWP Series on Early Women’s Intertextual Networks

New WWP Series on Early Women’s Intertextual Networks

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We are delighted to announce the launch of our new Intertextual Networks series on the open-access Women Writers in Context platform! Intertextual Networks is a three-year research project funded by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, focusing on intertextuality in early women’s writing. This collaborative research initiative examines the citation and quotation practices of the authors represented in Women Writers Online (WWO) to explore and theorize the representation of intertextuality. As part of this project, we…

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WWP Alumni: Josephine Sloman

WWP Alumni: Josephine Sloman

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Here is the fifth installment in our new series featuring stories from people who have helped shaped the Women Writers Project. WWP alumna Josephine Sloman (Encoder) speaks about her time at the WWP and her career after graduating from Northeastern.  My first introduction to the WWP was during my sophomore year. It was my first semester as an English major—I initially came to Northeastern with the intention of majoring in Psychology and Neuroscience. I was in Dr. Nicole Aljoe’s Introduction to English Studies…

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Should Giants be Denied Credit? Or, An Examination of Seventeenth-century Historiographies Using Word Embedding Models

Should Giants be Denied Credit? Or, An Examination of Seventeenth-century Historiographies Using Word Embedding Models

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Giants were a serious problem for early modern British historians. For example, in a chapter titled “Whether it be likely that there were ever any Gyaunts inhabiting in this Isle or not” from his “Historical Description of the Island of Britain,” William Harrison offers a lengthy meditation on the historical plausibility of giants, arguing against the idea that the presence of fables in a nation’s historical record should irredeemably discredit that nation’s history. Harrison writes that to “some mens eares,”…

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Women Writers Online is Free for the Month of March!

Women Writers Online is Free for the Month of March!

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We are delighted to announce that Women Writers Online will once again be free during the month of March, in celebration of Women’s History Month. This collection includes more than 400 texts written and translated by women, first published between 1526 and 1850. We also invite you to explore our other publications, which are always open access. These include Women Writers in Review (WWiR), a collection of close to 700 reviews of and responses to works by the works in…

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