Visualizing Computational Literary Criticism

Description

Speaker: Simone Abbiati (University of Cambridge)

About the event

Starting from Minkowski’s spatio-temporal representation, we will discuss the usefulness of visualising different interpretive steps involved in CLC to re-evaluate their importance and diversity. Regardless of the (literary) theory of reference, the talk investigates the possibility of finding shared conceptual steps that different DH communities around the world present when using digital tools on literary works.

Chair: Dr Siddharth Soni

Respondents: Professor Elena Bougleux and Ryan Heuser

About the speaker

Simone Abbiati is a second-year PhD student in Transcultural studies in the humanities at the University of Bergamo, with a “department of Excellence” researcher grant for Digital Humanities. He graduated in Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Milan, worked on the narratological category of spatiality in “The Experience of Pain” by C.E. Gadda (BA) and in me. Calvino’s “Cosmicomics” (MA). His work relates to the hermeneutic rethinking of DH methodologies regarding fictional space. He is particularly interested in combining text mining and digital cartography to reflect on politically debated spaces in literature.

He is currently working on the British-Irish border and the Basque Country. He aims to strengthen the social impact of literary analysis by identifying how literature mirrors different border conceptions and experiences, such as complex territorialisation processes and terrorism.

Tickets

This event will be held virtually. All tickets will come with the opportunity to participate via question submission during the Q&A portion of the panel.