Nicholas Kelly and Loren Glass win HathiTrust Research Center award for IWW workset

Friday, August 18, 2017

Nicholas Kelly
Nicholas Kelly

Rhetoric Lecturer Nicholas Kelly, English Professor Loren Glass, and Nikki White of UI Libraries have won an Advanced Collaborative Support project from the HathiTrust Research Center.

A description of the project is below.

A Writer’s Workshop Workset with the Program Era Project (PEP)
Nicholas Kelly, Loren Glass, Nikki White (University of Iowa)
The PEP team will compile a proof-of-concept workset with, at first, prominent individuals (faculty, staff, students) who were involved with the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (IWW), then produce “style cards” for each author’s works (by volume), based on stylometric data gathered through text analysis of the IWW workset within the HTRC Data Capsule. It is the goal of the project to also create a living workset that can be continually updated for scholars who wish to engage with IWW authors and their writing.

Loren Glass
Loren Glass

Awardees are provided dedicated HathiTrust Research Center staff time to support their research using texts in the HathiTrust Digital Library for a period of up to six months.

The Departments of Rhetoric and English are both part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.