Laura Mandell
Professor at Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolLaura Mandell is a professor and director of digital humanities initiatives at Texas A&M with a PhD in English from Cornell and over three decades of academic experience bridging literary scholarship and computational methods. She has authored books on eighteenth-century literature and print culture and leads major projects such as the Poetess Archive, 18thConnect, and the Advanced Research Consortium, creating online scholarly editions and databases for women’s poetry. Her current work pioneers new methods for visualizing poetry, deep-coding texts for large-scale data mining, and improving OCR for early modern and eighteenth-century materials via high-performance and cluster computing. Known for translating close reading into scalable digital tools, she blends humanistic inquiry with technical innovation to make historical texts machine-readable and research-ready.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, English, PhD, English at Cornell University
Github Skills (5)
nlp6
natural-language-processing5
acs5
theory4
trace3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wsalesky/PoetessArchive
Sep 2018 - Jan 2019
All the documents in the Poetess Archive
Contributions:80 commits in 3 months
nlpnatural-language-processingarchive
mandellc320/PoetessArchive
Oct 2018 - Aug 2024
All the documents in the Poetess Archive
Contributions:1 PR, 119 pushes, 2 comments in 5 years 11 months
nlpnatural-language-processingarchive
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