Narrative, voice, and anomie in the long 19th century: New approaches to American realist literature - Incite at Columbia University

  • Event

    Narrative, voice, and anomie in the long 19th century: New approaches to American realist literature

    Wednesday Nov 20, 2024
    4:00pm
  • Part of Series Narrative Workshop

As part of the Narrative Workshop, Jack LaViolette joins us from the Sociology department at Columbia University to discuss “Narrative, voice, and anomie in the long 19th century: New approaches to American realist literature”.

The Narrative Workshop has limited capacity. To inquire about joining, please contact Dian Sheng or Amy Weissenbach.

About Jack LaViolette

 

Jack LaViolette is a PhD student in the Columbia University Department of Sociology, a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow, and an Incite Graduate Fellow. He holds an MSc with Distinction in the Social Science of the Internet from the Oxford Internet Institute and a BA with Honors in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania.

His research interests lie at the intersection of historical, cultural, and computational sociology, with a particular methodological interest in natural language processing. At Incite, he has assisted the Measuring Liberal Arts initiative as well as the Trust Project Mellon Sawyer Seminar. With support from Incite, he additionally co-organized an eight-lecture series entitled "NLP for Social Science: From Language Models to Social Structures" in the spring of 2023. Prior to joining Incite and Columbia, he was a Clarendon Scholar at Oxford University.

 

 

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