The Gender / Novels project began in Fall 2018 with an undergraduate cohort of students working with a faculty director and two postdocs as part of the MIT/SHASS Programs in Digital Humanities. This program is funded by the Mellon Foundation.
Everyone involved listed below have contributed to the project’s design, development, implementation, contextualization, and maintenance. Read more about their contributions on the team roles page.
Students participated as part of one of three groups: Data, Analysis, and Deployment. Each contributor had an individual role as part of this work, and they collaborated across teams to develop this project.
The Data team was tasked with corpus building, data cleaning, and metadata. In total, the team delivered over 4,200 novels delivered for analysis and inquiry.
- Ife Ademolu-Odeneye, Web Acquisition Specialist (Scraper)
- Dina Atia, HathiTrust Specialist
- Susanna Chen, Corpus Scout
- Mingfei Duan, Metadata Specialist
- Maritza Gallegos, Data Sanitization Engineer
- Keith Murray, Gutenberg Specialist
- Felix Tran, Visualization Specialist
- Derek Yen, Copyright and License Specialist
- Sophia Zhi, Statistics Specialist
The Analysis team developed domain knowledge in the fields of literature, gender studies, and digital humanities. With this grounding, the team worked to perform statistical analysis on the large corpus of texts that the Data team delivered.
- Emily Caragay, Gender Studies Specialist
- Howard DaCosta, Statistics Specialist
- Assel Ismoldayeva, Grammar Specialist
- Michelle Li, Regular Expressions Specialist
- Kelsey Merrill, History / Chronology Specialist
- Charlotte Minsky, Analysis Project Manager
- Carol Pan, Visualization Specialist
- Shobhita Sundaram, Digital Humanities Literature Specialist
The Deployment team worked to make this project public-facing through ensuring that code was of a high quality, that the research was available on the web for the engagement across multiple audiences, and that the work was well documented.
- Elena Boal, Quality Assurance Engineer
- Alena Culbertson, Visualization Specialist
- Elsa Itambo, DevOps Engineer
- Isaac Redlon, Frontend Web Developer
- Kate Xu, Backend Web Developer
- Samantha York, Writer / Editor / Documentation
- Michael Scott Cuthbert, Faculty Director of the Digital Humanities Lab and Associate Professor of Music
- Nicole Fountain, Administrative Assistant
- Bridget Johnston, Temporary Administrative Assistant
- Stephan Risi, Postdoctoral Associate
- Lisa Tagliaferri, Postdoctoral Associate
See also our Team page on the Gender / Novels website.