On January 30 from 12-1:30 pm EST, Dr. Milan Terlunen, Engaged Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute and the Tabb Center, will lead a workshop entitled “The Writers We Keep Quoting: Repurposing Plagiarism Detection to Historicize the Humanities Disciplines.” This work adapts plagiarism detection methods to investigate the history of humanities disciplines. By computationally detecting quotations from a range of literary and theoretical texts across millions of academic journal articles, Dr. Terlunen investigates how certain key passages have enabled not only the consolidation of disciplines and fields, but also interdisciplinary communication.

The workshop will convene in person at the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute (Mergenthaler 429) and on Zoom. Please register here to attend in either modality.

The full spring Digital Humanities Workshops schedule will be available in the next few weeks. For now, please mark your calendars for 12-1:30 pm on Thursdays January 30, February 20, March 13, and April 17!