Books Published

Literary Geographies in Balzac and Proust. Elements in Digital Literary Studies. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108992923

Book Reviews

Review of Early Modern Visions of Space: France and Beyond. Dorothea Heitsch and Jeremie C. Korta, eds., Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 

Review of The Courtesan and the Gigolo: The Murders in the Rue Montaigne and the Dark Side of Empire in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Aaron Freundschuh, French Review 91.3 (2018), p.236.

Review of Youth and Empire: Trans-Colonial Childhoods in British and French Asia by David M. Pomfret, French Review 91.4 (2016), p.283.

Review of "Authority in Crisis in French Literature, 1850-1880" by Seth Whidden, SHARP News: the quarterly publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (2015).

Review of "The Economy of Glory: From Ancien Régime France to the Fall of Napoléon." Robert Morrissey. Trans. Teresa Lavender Fagan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014), Nineteenth-Cetury French Studies (43-1.2 Fall-Winter 2014-15).

Review of "La Généalogie fantastique de Gérard de Nerval". Sylvie Lécuyer. Études nervaliennes et romantiques XIV (Namur: Presses Universitaires de Namur, 2011), Nineteenth-Century French Studies (43-1.2 Fall-Winter 2014-15).

Review of "La Poison," Sacha Guitry (London: Eureka, 2012), Modernism/modernity, Winter, 2014.

Review of "Beyond Citizenship? Feminism and the Transformation of Belonging," edited by Sasha Roseneil (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013), LSE Review of Books, December, 2013.

Review of "Proche-Orient: Le pouvoir, la terre et l’eau," Pierre Blanc (Paris: Sciences Po, 2012), LSE Review of Books, September, 2013.

Review of "Nature et souveraineté," Gérard Mairet (Paris: Sciences Po, 2012). LSE Review of Books, August 2013: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2013/08/06/book-review-nature-et-souverainete/

Review of "Femmes poètes du XIXe siècle: Une anthologie. Christine Planté" (Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 2010). Nineteenth-Century French Studies: 39.3, pp. 350-52.

Refereed Journal Publications

“French Salons Before and After the Revolution.”  German and European Cultural Histories, 1760-1830: Between Network and Narrative, ed. Birgit Tautz and Crystal Hall, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2024), pp. 29-54.

Conroy, M., Gillmann, C., Harvey, F., Mchedlidze, T., Fabrikant, S. I., Windhager, F. et al. “Uncertainty in Humanities Network Visualization.” Frontiers in Communication 8, Special Issue: Visualization Research in the Digital Humanities (2024): 1-10, https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1305137

“Frank Kafker and the Social History of Eighteenth-Century Encyclopedism,”  with Gregory S. Brown. Specialized Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, 1650-1800, ed. Jeffrey Loveland, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2024), pp. 385-402.

“Quantifying the Gap: The Gender Gap in French Writers’ Wikidata.” Journal of Cultural Analytics 8.2 (2023): 1-25, doi:10.22148/001c.74068.

“Le réseau français des Lumières,” translation by Chloe Summers Edmondson of an article written with Maria Comsa, Dan Edelstein, Chloe Summers Edmondson, and Claude Willan. Inventorier les correspondances des Lumières: Analyse matérielle et traitements numériques Paris: Centre international d'étude du xviiie siècle, 2022, pp. 169-199.

"Thinking Literary Systems: Print and Digital Databases of Balzacians." The Balzac Review / Revue Balzac, No. 4, Theme: L'édition / Publishing (2021): 81-94.

“Visualizing the Evolution of Historical Networks Using Small Multiples in Grid Charts,” with Kimmo Elo, Malte Rehbein, and Linda von Keyserlingk, Journal of Historical Network Research 7:1 (2022): 86-113.

“Networks, Maps, and Time: Visualizing Historical Networks Using Palladio.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 15:1 (2021): 1-15. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/15/1/000534/000534.html

“Picturing the Politics of Resistance: Using Image Metadata and Historical Network Analysis to Map the East German Opposition Movement, 1975-1990,” with Kimmo Elo, Digital Histories: Emergent Approaches within the New Digital History (Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 2020), pp. 221-235. doi: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-5-13

“The Empire of Letters: Enlightenment-Era French Salons,” with Chloe Edmondson. Digitizing Enlightenment, edited by Simon Burrows and Glenn Roe, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2019), pp. 222-36.

“The Eighteenth-Century French Academic Network." Networks of European Enlightenment, eds. Dan Edelstein and Chloe Summers Edmondson, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2019), pp. 225-49.

“Teaching Republican Culture through Caricature: The Scandal of Charlie Hebdo.” MLA's Teaching Representations of the French Revolution, eds. Julia V. Douthwaite, Catriona Seth, and Antoinette Sol (New York: MLA, 2018), pp. 128-39.

“The French Enlightenment Network” with Maria Comsa, Dan Edelstein, Chloe Summers Edmondson, and Claude Willan. The Journal of Modern History 88:3 (2016), pp. 495-534.

“The Milieu of the Prisoner-of-War Camp in La Grande Illusion.” Romance Notes, Vol 55: 3 (2015), pp. 371-384.

“Before the ‘Inward Turn’: Tracing Represented Thought in the French Novel (1800-1929).” Poetics Today 35 (2014):1-2, pp. 115-169.

“Reviving the Art of Sociability: Madame de Genlis’s Post-Revolutionary Salon at the Arsenal,” Special Issue of RELIEF, Madame de Genlis et la pensée des Lumières, ed. Alicia C. Montoya, 7:1 (2013), pp. 106-122.

“Comment se vendre: L’escroquerie et le marketing dans La vie publique et privée de Mossieu Réac de Nadar.” Médias 19 (2013): http://www.medias19.org/index.php?id=13388

“Spontaneity and Moral Certainty in Benjamin Constant’s Adolphe." Nineteenth-Century French Studies 40: 3-4 (2012): 222-238.

Refereed Conference Publications

“Literary Readings in Post-Revolutionary Salons: The Gendering of Listening and Speaking.” Women in French, Women In French Studies Special Conference Issue. Le bruit des femmes (2019): 93-103.

“Networks of the Enlightenment.” The Workshop, Number Six: Number, Measure, Scale, University of Indiana-Bloomington, 2019, 80-91.

"Real-Life Technology and the L2 French Classroom: Using Images, Charts, and Maps to Stimulate Conversation," AATF 2014 Conference Proceedings.

Non-Refereed Publications

“Visualizing Networks and Temporality,” with Kimmo Elde, Gerhard Heyer, Fotis Jannidis, Malte Rehbein, Antonis Symvonis, and Scott Weingart, Dagstuhl Reports 8:11 (2019), 149: http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/DagRep.8.11.139

3 Encyclopedia Entries: “Adolphe,” “The Prince of Carency. A Novel,” and “Secret Memoirs of the Duke and Duchess of O,” The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820, edited by April London, accepted March, 2018.

Invited note: “Visualizing Social Networks: Palladio and the Encyclopédistes.” (In)forming Revolution: Information Networks in the Age of Revolutions, ed. Brian Banks, Age of Revolutions, September, 2017: https://ageofrevolutions.com/2017/09/25/visualizing-social-networks-palladio-and-the-encyclopedistes-pt-i/

"Frank Kafker (1931-2020)," with Gregory S. Brown and Jeff Loveland. French Historical Studies, 43:3, 2020, obituary. Also appeared in the Voltaire Foundation blog and H-France.

Invited Note: "The Salons Project: a digital approach to eighteenth-century French salons," Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford, March 28, 2019. https://voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2019/02/19/the-salons-project-a-digital-approach-to-eighteenth-century-french-salons/

Presentations - Conference (refereed *)

“Reconstructing the Sounds of Mme de Staël’s Salons,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, North Carolina, September, 2024.

"Networks of the English Enlightenments: the Long Tail of Correspondence Culture,” DH2024, Arlington, Virginia, August, 2024.

"Center versus Periphery: Digital humanities networks in French and Francophone studies,” Canadian Society for Digital Humanities conference, Congress 2024, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

"Using Google Maps in Language and Culture Course," TWLTA West, March, 2024.

“Reclaiming the Indigenous: The Natchez and Chateaubriand in the Mississippi Valley,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, November, 2023.

“Démographie et réseaux des femmes écrivains dans les salons parisiens, 1750-1830.” Part of the colloquium “Les ambassadrices de la République mondiale des lettres (1750-1950),” École Nationale Supérieure-Lyon, Lyon, France, October 19, 2023.

centerNet roundtable,  DH 2023, Graz, Austria, August, 2023.

Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) roundtable, DH 2023, Graz, Austria, August, 2023.

"Tracer la circulation des savoirs dans les réseaux littéraires parisiens, 1750 à 1850.” Part of the session “De la transformation des sciences humaines par les humanités numériques (colloque du CRIHN-GREN 2023),” University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada, May 8, 2023.

“Mapping Eighteenth-Century Literary Data,” American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Washington University, St Louis, March 10, 2023.

“Tracking Proust's geography: What we know about places in In Search of Lost Time,” French Department, Washington University, November, 2022.

“A Short History of centerNet,” Networking Digital Humanities Centres,” Building Digital Humanities Symposium, University Western Australia, Sydney Australia, November 15, 2022.

“Mapping the Edges of Empire: Les Indes as Transitional Space,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, New York, NY, November, 2022.

“The Language of Reviewers: Sentiment, Ratings, and Style in Japanese-Language Amazon Video Reviews,” with Hironori Nishi, Digital Humanities 2022 (DH2022), Tokyo, July, 2022. (Moved online).

“Querying and Curating Wikidata for Smaller Literary Networks,” Digitizing Enlightenment V, University of Montpellier, France, July 7, 2022.

“Using Wikidata to Map the Multilingualism of ‘La littérature-monde,’” DH Unbound 2022, Virtual Conference, Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), the Canadian Society of Digital Humanities/société canadienne des humanités numériques (CSDH/SCHN), and Humanistica, May 19, 2022.

“Critical Geography as a Method for Visualizing Imperial Biases,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (52nd Annual Meeting), Baltimore, March 31-April 2, 2022.

“The Problem of Ego Networks in Humanities Data,” Graphs and Networks in the Humanities 2022, Technologies, Models, Analyses, and Visualizations, 6th International Conference, February 3-4, 2022, Amsterdam. (Moved Online).

"in the Shadow of Voltaire: commemorations, remembrances, and echoes of François-Marie Arouet in late 18th century and early 19th century French salons," BSECS 50th Annual Conference, British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, January 9, 2021.

Metrics for Distant Reading Literary History, DH2020, Ottawa, Canada, moved to online due to COVID 19.

"Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Studies" Sydney Digital Humanities Research Group Seminar (with Simon Burrows), November 12, 2020.

“Anticipations of Animation: Émile Cohl’s Transition from Caricature to Cinema,” 45th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Sarasota, Florida, November, 2019.

“Mapping Balzac: Methods for Literary Geography,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, November, 2019.

“L’Esprit de société and Networked Identities,” International Congress on the Enlightenment, University of Edinburgh, July, 2019.

“Metrics for Eighteenth-Century French Literary History,” Digitizing Enlightenment IV, University of Edinburgh, July, 2019.

“Roundtable: How to re-construct a social network?,” Digitizing Enlightenment III, University of Oxford, Maison française, July, 2018.

“Project Presentation: The Salons Project,” Digitizing Enlightenment III, University of Oxford, Maison française, July, 2018.

"Literary Readings in Post-Revolutionary Salons: Feminine Versus Masculine Styles," Women in French, Tallahassee, Florida, February, 2018.

"Strategies for Using Caricatures in the Classroom," Teaching and Learning of Cultures SIG, ACTFL, Nashville, November, 2017.

“Stylized Lives in Delphine de Girardin’s Lettres parisiennes (1843),” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Charlottesville, November, Virginia, 2017.

“Enlightenment-Era French Academies and Salons as Networks,” Bloomington Eighteenth-Century Studies Workshop, University of Indiana-Bloomington, May, 2017.

“Mapping Social Networks in Space and Time: Tools for Digital History,” French Historical Studies, DC, April, 2017.

“Digital Humanities Roundtable,” French Historical Studies, Washington, DC, April, 2017.

“Salon Networks Before and After the French Revolution,” Network@1800, Bowdoin College, April, 2017.

“The Global Geography of Le Curé de village,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, October, 2016.

"Nineteenth-Century Salons: A Latter-Day ‘Republic of Letters’?," The Making of the Humanities V Conference, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, October, 2016.

“Spying on the Dead: Contemporary Ethics of Privacy for the Pre-Internet Age,” American Association of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March, 2016.

"The Ecosystem of Print: The Case of Delphine de Girardin’s Parisian Salon," Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Appalachian State University, Asheville, NC, March, 2016.

“Literary Readings in the Age of the Newspaper: Delphine de Girardin’s Parisian Salon, 1836-1843,” Society for French Historical Studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, March, 2016.

"Social Versus Spatial Networks in Balzac’s Human Geography," American Association of Comparative Literature, Seattle, WA, March, 2015.

"Reclaiming Feminist Literary History through Digital Mapping," Northeastern Modern Language Association, Toronto, ON, May, 2015.

“Collections or Collectivities: Physionomies as Interconnected Fluid Systems,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, San Juan, PR, October, 2014.

“Networks in Literary History: The Salons Project,” Digital Humanities Forum, University of Kansas, September, 2014.

“Using Images, Charts, and Maps to Stimulate Conversation,” Association of American Teachers of French, New Orleans, LA, July, 2014.

“Ethics and the Novel: Kant versus Constant,” Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, February, 2013.

“From the Faubourg Saint-Germain to the Bas Fonds: Mapping the Trajectories of Balzac’s Minor Characters,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference, Richmond, VA, October, 2013.

“Street Art and the Paris Establishment: The Case of le M.U.R.,” The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, Detroit, MI, October, 2013.

“Literary Salons, Bourgeois Cercles: Social Networks and the Aesthetics of the Post-Revolutionary Salon,” American Comparative Literature Association, University of Toronto, April, 2013 part of panel “Occupy the Territory: Mapping and Unmapping Social Space in Nineteenth-Century Europe,” organized with Meghan Freeman, Oregon State University.

“Mapping French Salons: 1700-1914,” LENS Mapping People Symposium, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA, October, 2012.

“The bal bourgeois: Taste, Excess, and Social Distinction,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference, Raleigh, NC, October, 2012.

“Comment se vendre : L’escroquerie et le marketing dans ‘La vie publique et privée de mossieu Réac’ de Nadar,” Presse, prostitution, bas-fonds dans l'espace médiatique francophone, Colloque international, Québec, Canada, June, 2012.

“Enrichissez-vous: Speculation in the comédies-vaudevilles and Balzac,” American Comparative Literature Association, Providence, RI, March, 2012.

“The Melodrama of History: Carlyle, Dickens, and Sand on the Morality of the Revolution,” Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA, January, 2012.

“Above the Law: Reviving the Marquise de Brinvilliers,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference, Philadelphia, PA, October, 2011.

“French Salons: Death or Renewal? The Case of Sophie Gay and Delphine de Girardin,” Humanities Education and Research Association, San Francisco, CA, February, 2011.

“The Cult of the Nobility: Nineteenth-Century Heraldry and Arms,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, October, 2009.

“Balzac and the Stock Market,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, October, 2009.

“Adolphe: The Necessary Destruction of Tradition, Spontaneity and Unreason,” University of Chicago, IL, Romance Languages Graduate Conference, May, 2009.

“Anti-Romantic War Heroes: T.E. Lawrence and René Char,” Avatars: Personae, Heteronyms, Pseudonyms, Comparative Literature Graduate Conference, Stanford University, CA, April, 2009.

“Hegel and Death Culture,” History of Ideas Conference, SUNY at Buffalo, NY, April, 2002.

"The Conception of La fille maudite: Luce Irigaray and France Théoret,” Representing Women: Francophone Literature Conference, French Department, University at Buffalo, NY, March, 2002.

Presentations - Universities/Industry (refereed *)

"Networking small data: Prosopography, ontologies, and networks from the Salons Project," with Chloe Summers Edmondson, University of Trier, December 2024. [virtual] 

“Mapping Social Networks in Smaller Datasets,” Humanities Data Science and Methodology, TU Darmstadt, November 20, 2023 (virtual).

“On Networking: Enlightenment-Era French Salons,” keynote at the conference “The Salon and the Senses in the Long Eighteenth Century: Interdisciplinary Perspectives,” Rutgers University, March 4, 2021.

“The Empire of Letters: Enlightenment-Era French Salons,” with Chloe Edmondson, Networks of European Enlightenment Conference, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, April, 2016.

"Social Networks in the Enlightenment: The Case of Parisian Salons," Marcus Orr Center for the Humanities` Brown Bag talk, University of Memphis, September, 2015.

"The Milieu of the Prisoner-of-War Camp in La Grande Illusion," University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NC, April, 2015.

“French Salons and Utopian Ideals,” French Culture Workshop, Stanford University, CA, December, 2011.

“Stendhal: Audience Construction and Romantic Irony,” Aesthetics Workshop, Stanford University, CA, 2008.

Other Presentations (refereed *)

“Mapping Fuzzy Logic and Fictional Universes,” THAT Camp Alabama, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, August, 2013.

“Is Socialism the Opiate of the Masses?: Politics as Religion,” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA, December, 2009.

“Noble Signs, Bourgeois Readers,” French Culture Workshop, Stanford University, CA May, 2009.

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