Intersectional Identities in a Networked World - lecture by visiting scholar Susan Brown

Friday, January 27, 2017 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

The Department of English Language and Literature is proud to present Not One: Intersectional Identities in a Networked World, a talk by Susan Brown, Professor of English at the University of Guelph, where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Digital Scholarship. All are welcome to attend. 

pattern visualization of cultural formations

Susan Brown is Professor of English at the University of Guelph, where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Digital Scholarship, and Visiting Professor in English and Humanities Computing at the University of Alberta. She directs and co-edits Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present (www.ualbert.ca/orlando), an ongoing experiment in digital literary history published online by Cambridge University Press since 2006. She is also President (English) of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Societé Canadienne des humanités numérique, and leads the development of the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (www.cwrc.ca), a CFI-funded online repository and research environment for literary studies in Canada. Her current research focuses on using digital technologies for literary history, and spans aspects of text encoding, text mining, visualization, interface design and usability, and the impacts of technological innovation on Victorian literature.