Digital Victorians: Author Paul Fyfe and Ryan Cordell on Nineteenth-Century Media and the Digital Humanities

Date: 12 December 2024
Time: 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET
Location: Zoom
Presented by: The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography

Join author and SoFCB Senior Fellow Paul Fyfe and interviewer Ryan Cordell for a conversation about Fyfe’s book Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities (Stanford University Press, 2024). Following this conversation, the audience will have the opportunity to participate in a Q&A session moderated by Holly Borham. This event is part of a series celebrating new books in critical bibliography and is sponsored by Rare Book School’s Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB).

This event is free and open to the public; however, advanced registration is required. To learn more about this event and to register, click here.

Ryan Cordell is Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences and Department of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He primarily studies circulation and reprinting in nineteenth-century American newspapers, but his interests extend to the influence of computation, digitization, and machine learning on contemporary reading, writing, and research. He collaborates with colleagues in English, History, and Computer Science on the Viral Texts project, which uses robust data-mining tools to discover borrowed texts across large-scale archives of nineteenth-century periodicals. He also directs UIUC’s Skeuomorph Press & BookLab.

Paul Fyfe is Associate Professor of English at North Carolina State University. His research and teaching include nineteenth-century British literature, media history, and digital humanities. He is a Co-Principal Investigator on NC State’s forthcoming humanities research center on the ethics of AI, and works with an international team on applying multimodal AI to analyze and sort nineteenth-century illustrated newspapers. His latest book is Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities (Stanford University Press, 2024).

Holly Borham is Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and European Art at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin.