HOBAR/DH_OU Seminar Series 1

Digital Marginalia

Speaker: Christopher Ohge (Institute of English Studies)

Authorial marginalia is enigmatic in literary study, partly due to its fragmentary nature. Yet it can also provide clues into an author's reading habits and creative process. After surveying recent attempts by scholars to encode marginalia for digital publication, the seminar will focus on Ohge's recent work on Herman Melville's marginalia, which combines XML encoding and text analysis techniques to achieve a more sophisticated (and holistic) understanding of Melville's reading and writing process.