Laura C. Mandell

Professor, English, Digital Humanities

Current CV / Short Bio

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. (more about CoDHR Find out more )

Breaking the Book

Selected as a Texas A&M Presidential Impact Fellow in 2017, Dr. Mandell 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:




Dr. Mandell is Project Director of the Poetess Archive, an online scholarly edition and database of women poets, 1750-1900 (http://www.poetessarchive.org)link out Poetess Archive



Director of NINES and ARC
Currently in hiatus
For questions  link out
ARC



Technical Director,
Romantic Circles   link out
Romantic Circles editions page


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. (video Find out more; more information available.Find out more



Dr. Mandell's digital projects include the Digital New Variorum Shakespeare (newvariorumshakespeare.org).Find out more
NVS



TypeWright (a crowd-sourced OCR correction tool available at 18thConnect.org)Find out more,
TypeWright



and the Big Data Infrastructure Visualization Application (bigdiva.org). Big ScreenFind out more / Little ScreenFind out more
BigDIVA



Laura Mandell (she/her/hers), English, 4227 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-4227. ORCid. mandell@tamu.edu