Laura Mandell
Assoc. Professor
Dept. of English
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
Voice phone: (513) 529-5276
FAX (513) 529-1392
Email: mandellc@muohio.edu
Vita
(Most recent printable version)
Laura Mandell, Professor of English Literature at Miami University of Ohio has published Misogynous Economies: The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1999), a Longman Cultural Edition of The Castle of Otranto and Man of Feeling, and numerous articles primarily about eighteenth-century women writers. Her recent article in New Literary History describes how digital work can be used to conduct research into conceptions informing the writing and printing of eighteenth-century poetry. That article forms part of a book manuscript in progress: “Carved in Breath: Technology and Affect in Gothic Fiction and Romantic Poetry.” She is Editor of the Poetess Archive, an online scholarly edition and database of women poets, 1750-1900 (http://unixgen.muohio.edu/~poetess); Associate Director of NINES (http://www.nines.org); and is currently participating in the development of 18thConnect, a similar online network for eighteenth-century scholars. Her current research involves developing new methods for visualizing poetry (http://miamichat.muohio.edu), developing software that will allow all scholars to deep-code documents for datamining, and improving OCR software for early modern and 18th-c. texts via high performance and cluster computing.
Recent Presentations:
“The Future of Humanities Scholarship in a Digital World,” Dartmouth College, by invitation, 1 August 2008. -- available here
NINES and 18thConnect: What are they? Short Intro.
Courses available on line
Image: a "Writing and Cultures" course for first-year Honors Students about composing with words and images -- ORAL FINAL EXAM
Narrative and Digital Technology, a capstone course for senior English Majors, Spring 2006, Fall 2007; a lower-division version
Technoromanticism, a graduate course, Fall 2004
Digital Humanities, a first-year seminar; Fall 2003, Spring 2003, Fall 2004, Spring 2006
The Culture of Information: Living the Internet, a capstone course, 2001, 2002, 2004
The Eighteenth-Century British Novel, a graduate seminar, Spring 1996
British Romanticism Classes:
The Early Romantic Era, 1789-1815
The Later Romantic Era, 1816-1837
See Also: Online Courses
Student Projects:
- Online Projects by Graduate Students in
- The Eighteenth-Century British Novel
- Online Projects by Undergraduate Students, including
- papers for literature classes
- Honors Theses
- Undergraduate Summer Scholar Projects
- work on the Miami MOO
Online Resources:
Romantic Chronology (with Alan Liu, Rita Raley, Carl Stahmer, and Vince Willoughby), available through Alan Liu's Voice of the Shuttle at UCSB
Anthologies and Miscellanies, with Rita Raley
The Anthologies Page, a Romantic Circles Web Site, with Harriet Kramer Linkin and Rita Raley
Romantic Anthologies Web site, copies of some tables of contents of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century anthologies and miscellanies
The Poetess Tradition, a NINES Peer-Reviewed Project; accepted into the MLA Bibliography (Fall 2007).
Women Poets, including Mary Leapor's Poetry, both volumes of her poems, currently under construction
Anna Barbauld's Prose Works, currently under construction: many of Barbauld's prose works are available now, however, as image files readable by Adobe Acrobat.
The Bijou Literary Annual, including ideas for teaching
Online Course Materials -
Video Podcasts (available on YouTube) -- sample:
The Original Author
Digital Humanties (course modules)
Learning Narrative Structures
Course Materials
- English 441A and Eng441B: The Early Romantics. These Class Home Pages contain links to syllabus, all class handouts, and student projects.
- Romanticism On Line
Last revised: 2006 March 19, at 3:30 p.m.. EDT