Biography

Texas A&M University College Station - English

Professor; Director, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture at Texas A&M University
Higher Education
Laura
Mandell
Bryan/College Station, Texas Area
Laura Mandell is Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture at Texas A&M (http://idhmc.tamu.edu). She is the author of _Misogynous Economies: The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain_ (1999), a Longman Cultural Edition of _The Castle of Ortanto and Man of Feeling_, and numerous articles primarily about eighteenth-century women writers. Coming out in June 2015 is her book called _Breaking the Book: Print Humanities in the Digital Age._ Her article in _New Literary History_, “What Is the Matter? What Literary History Neither Hears Nor Sees,” 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 Poetess Archive, on online scholarly edition and database of women poets, 1750-1900 ( http://poetessarchive.org), Director of 18thConnect (http://www.18thConnect.org), and Director of ARC, the Advanced Research Consortium overseeing NINES, 18thConnect, and MESA. 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.