This dissertation uses digital humanities methods and computational linguistic tools to perform a sentiment analysis on a corpus of 18 th century Moravian English personal memoirs. This historical corpus contains important similarities to modern natural language text, requiring …
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What is the symbolic potential of Glitch in popular culture? That question animates this cultural critique, which argues that modern representations of glitch phenomena in popular culture are part of a significant pattern of communication. In the age of hyper-networked, polymedi…
This digital dissertation, “Changing Lanes: A Reanimation of Shell Oil’s Carol Lane,” is a case study of a mid-20th-century public relations (PR) program, sponsored by Shell Oil and Shell Canada, that targeted American and Canadian women motorists. From 1947 to 1974, Carol Lane …
In this thesis, I investigate the gender ideologies, conventions, and stereotypes represented in Japanese popular music lyrics by analyzing 17,614 commercially successful songs released in Japan from 1968 to 2020 utilizing natural language processing and machine learning. In the…
This thesis seeks to utilize a distant reading of seventeen essays written by James Baldwin alongside sustained close readings of three topics within those essays in order to understand why Baldwin has maintained increased popularity when the original historical context of the e…
This dissertation analyzes the immediate and long-term effects of Roman annexation on the important metropolis of Antioch on the Orontes in northern Syria. Compared to many other urban centers of the ancient Mediterranean, direct textual and archaeological material for Antioch i…
This dissertation describes the development of tools needed to research how to locate passages with matching meaning in documents written in some ancient language but each later translated into a native tongue. Described are how such endeavors were done in the past as the texts …
Caves and cities are normally found at the opposite ends of the architectural spectrum. The former is typically perceived as a primitive, undesigned object, part of nature; the latter is held as the height of civilized planning and rationality. At the Greco-Roman city of Magnesi…
This thesis considers the phenomenological experience of e-reading (reading on an electronic screen) as a way-in to discussing wider issues of technology and our encounter with objects in our environments. By considering the resistance shown toward reading on iPads and Kindles i…
The parameters, both theoretical and practical, that define the uses and roles of the digital technology within the field of literary studies should be continuously rethought in order to keep up with the rapid changes in technology and reach the best possible uses. In this conte…
Scholars have long analyzed Biblical Hebrew poetry on a number of levels, yet consonance has received less attention than most other literary devices. Moreover, even when consonance has been studied, scholars have usually focused on consonance only at the level of the line or th…
The troubadours were poet-composers who flourished in Occitania (today southern France) and surrounding areas during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Their lyric poems survive in chansonniers (songbooks) which usually contain only the texts. A fraction of the melodies that …
The responses of historical readers and their engagement in print culture remains a mystery in literary study. By recovering readers’ letters to the editor in magazine culture, my dissertation recovers readers’ efforts to evaluate and critique art, and thereby participate in the…
Through the convergence of disability studies and literary cognitive studies, Autistic Characters: (de)coding embedded sentiment explores depictions of autistic characters in literature with the use of close readings and scaled readings, a computational analytics method which us…
On January 9, 1866, a formal ceremony opened the doors of Fisk Free Colored School to educate whites and newly freed slaves in Nashville, Tennessee. This dissertation will argue that from the institution’s opening in 1866, Fisk University Library evolved from a passive role of p…
This study is a fresh analysis of a collection of scrolls and fragments grouped under the rubric, The Community Rule or Serekh ha-Yaḥad. As part of the manuscripts discovered in the Judean Desert, the Community Rule manuscripts are all fragmentary to various degrees, yet attest …
Going back at least as far as the Judeo-Christian creation story, the idea of men giving birth has appeared across a wide range of literary genres and forms. Only in the last forty years, however, has this figure moved from the realms of fable and science fiction to representati…
While music from medieval and early-modern Europe has long been an object of digitally and computationally inflected musicological research, such efforts have tended to focus either on issues of musical style or on the publication of primary sources such as manuscript images, ma…
This dissertation project introduces and evaluates the coined rhetorical/homiletical concept of the sermonic fugue. The term is an expanded adaptation of the musico-literary fugue principally in the context of thematic collections and homiletical analytics. It defines recurring—…