# overview
Laura Mandell is Professor of English at Texas A&M University where she founded, and for 12 years directed, the Center of Digital Humanities Research. Selected as a Texas A&M Presidential Impact Fellow in 2017, she is the author of Breaking the Book: Print Humanities in the Digital Age (2015), Misogynous Economies: The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1999), and numerous articles and chapters. She is Project Director of the Poetess Archive, an online scholarly edition and database of women poets, 1750-1900 (http://www.poetessarchive.org), Acquisitions Editor of 18thConnect (http://www.18thConnect.org), and Director of ARC (http://www.ar-c.org), the Advanced Research Consortium overseeing NINES, 18thConnect, and MESA.  She spearheaded the Early Modern OCR project or "eMOP" (http://emop.tamu.edu), a project concerned with improving OCR for early modern and 18th-c. texts via high performance and cluster computing. Dr. Mandell's digital projects include the Digital New Variorum Shakespeare (newvariorumshakespeare.org), TypeWright (a crowd-sourced OCR correction tool available at 18thConnect.org), and the Big Data Infrastructure Visualization Application (bigdiva.org).

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Cornell University - (Ithaca, New York, United States)

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Cornell University - (Ithaca, New York, United States)

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University of New Mexico - (Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States)

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How to Read a Literary Visualization: Network Effects in the Lake School of Romantic Poetry

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Gender and Cultural Analytics: Finding or Making Stereotypes?

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Font Identification in Historical Documents Using Active Learning

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Non-Consuming Relevance: the Grub Street Project

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The Business of Digital Humanities: Capitalism and Enlightenment

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Mass Digitization of Early Modern Texts With Optical Character Recognition

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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Special Issue: Scholarly Editing in the TwentyFirst Century A Conclusion

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Roger Whitson and Jason Whittaker. William Blake and the Digital Humanities: Collaboration, Participation, and Social Media

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Johnson's lessons for men: Producing the professional woman writer

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REHISTORICIZING ROMANTIC IDEOLOGY, NEW PERSPECTIVES ON CLASS AND GENDER CONFLICT, 1730-1800

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Bad Marriages, Bad Novels: The Philosophical Romance

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Meeting Scholars Where They Are: The Advanced Research Consortium (ARC) and a Social Humanities Infrastructure

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Misogynous Economies The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain

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What is the matter? Or, what literary theory neither hears nor sees

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Special Issue: 'Scholarly Editing in the Twenty-First Century' - Combined Bibliography

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Promotion and Tenure for Digital Scholarship

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The Role of XSLT in Digital Libraries, Editions, and Cultural Exhibits

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Automatic Assessment of OCR Quality in Historical Documents

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Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

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Using Data and Design to Bring the New Variorum Shakespeare Online

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Visualizing the Feminist Controversy in England, 1788-1810

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Digitizing the Archive: the Necessity of an "Early Modern" Period

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Introduction: Histories of Print, Histories of Emotion

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Reading Numbers: Literature, Case Histories, and Quantitative Analysis

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Prayer, Feeling, Action: Anna Barbauld and the Public Worship Controversy

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What's sex got to do with it?: Marriage versus circulation in the Pennsylvania magazine, 1775-1776

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Sacred secrets: Romantic biography, Romantic reform

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Breaking the Book: Print Humanities in the Digital Age

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Imaging interiority: Photography, psychology, and lyric poetry

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Producing Hate in "Private" Letters: Horace Walpole, Mary Hays

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Felicia Hemans: Reimagining poetry in the nineteenth century. Eds. Nanora Sweet and Julie Melnyk. New York: Palgrave, 2001. ISBN 0-333-80109-1. Price: $65.00. Felicia Hemans: Selected poems, letters, reception materials. Ed. Susan J. Wolfson. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-691-05029-5. Price: $55.00

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Navigating the storm: IMPACT, eMOP, and agile steering standards

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Texas A&M University; English; 4227 TAMU

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Moore, Shawn William (2017-05). Experimenting with Cavendish: The Heuretics of Social Literacy in the Writing of the Thrice Noble Princess, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. Doctoral Dissertation.