Digital Humanities Projects and Collaborations

Empirical Reader Studies at the Price Lab for Digital Humanities

• Topic

• Study of eclecticism; readerly taste; genre; romance 

• Computational and ethnographic (IRB approved) methods such as surveys and interviews

• Team

• Jim English, May Hathaway, Samantha Hsiung, Jin Kwon, J.D. Porter, Curtis Sun

• Former Members: Scott Enderle, Quinn Robinson, Catherine Qiao, Ashna Yakoob

• Media Coverage

• Louise Shepard, “Measuring Readers of Romance,” Penn Today, May 31, 2024. penntoday.upenn.edu/news/measuring-readers-romance-literary-genre-digital-humanities

• “Connect with Sarah Crosbie,” QR Calgary, June 14, 2024. traffic.megaphone.fm/CORU7963175630.mp3?updated=1718653528

Goodreads Choice Awards: Access to Collaborative Consecration or Normative Creation of Non-progressive Bestsellers?

• Topic

• Gathering & visualizing data on titles, authors, demographic information including gender, race, nationality

• Planned Output

• Publicly available, easily searchable data base