{"id":2683,"date":"2018-09-12T15:38:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T22:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/dsc\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2020-07-16T15:58:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T22:58:42","slug":"modeling-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/dsc\/2018\/09\/12\/modeling-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"Modeling Absence: Digital Text Analysis and Sexual Violence in Shakespeare\u2019s Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dr.\u00a0Whitney Sperrazza, Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas<\/div>\n
Friday, September 28th at 12:30pm<\/div>\n
Digital Scholarship Commons in the\u00a0Mearns Centre for Learning, McPherson Library<\/span><\/div>\n
Organized by the Dept. of English and UVic\u00a0Libraries\u00a0<\/span>
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Can we use text analysis tools to trace absence? This talk situates computation and close\u00a0reading alongside feminist digital critique to explore the absence of sexual violence in the\u00a0language of early modern drama. Scenes of sexual violence in this dramatic archive often occur\u00a0offstage, and the violence is then coded within or absent from the play\u2019s language. How do current\u00a0text mining tools, which purport to measure semantic presence, account for such violence? Taking\u00a0Shakespeare\u2019s\u00a0Titus Andronicus\u00a0<\/i>as my focus, I outline how topic modeling marks not only Lavinia\u2019s\u00a0continued presence outside the play\u2019s language but also her centrality to the plot\u2014a structural, rather\u00a0than semantic, legibility. This talk offers alternative possibilities for approaching text analysis, while\u00a0prompting us to revisit our readings of sexual violence in early modern drama.
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Dr. Whitney Sperrazza is the Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hall Center for the\u00a0Humanities, University of Kansas. Her digital work brings together computational analysis and\u00a0digital maker cultures, with particular interest in how digital methods can help us to better understand\u00a0the violent effects of language.<\/div>\n

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