Director of NINES Andrew Stauffer and Project Manager Dana Wheeles will be joining the UVa Scholar’s Lab today to discuss Juxta Commons and possible uses for the software in the classroom. Below are a list of sets included in the demo to illustrate the numerous ways Juxta could draw students’ attention to textual analysis and digital humanities.
Traditional Scholarly Sets for Analysis and Research
- Alice in Wonderland
- D.G. Rossetti, The Stealthy School of Criticism
- Inflammatory Reactions, by Andrew Stauffer
- Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Scholarly Sets for Classroom Engagement
- Hamlet, Quarto 4 – Showing variants in spelling, and questioning “What is a work?”
- The Declaration of Independence – The evolution of a familiar document
- Tennyson’s The Princess – Authenticating texts on the web
Beyond traditional scholarship: born-digital texts
- Wikipedia: Climate Change – Seemingly stable documents mask constant debate between contributors and editors
- Current Events: New York Times on Health Care (via Newsdiffs.org)
- Instagram Terms of Service – How contracts evolve
Our favorites from the user community
- PC Fleming tracks the Daniel Day-Lewis wikipedia page during the Oscars
- George H. Williams compares two modern translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Tonya Howe compares two versions of a fourteenth-century poem, Legend of Good Women
- NINES Fellow Emma Schlosser examines the Wikipedia page on the Benghazi embassy attack in September
- Ryan Cordell tracks the publication history of Hawthorne’s Celestial Railroad
- Josh Honn’s collation of Lady Morgan’s novel, The Missionary