Showing posts with label Kenton Rambsy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kenton Rambsy. Show all posts

Saturday, July 2, 2016

Kenton Rambsy

Kenton Rambsy is an assistant professor of African American literature and digital humanities at the University of Texas at Arlington. He has written scholarly articles about text-mining short stories by Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Edward P. Jones, and lyrics by Jay Z. He has blogged extensively about African American literature, digital humanities topics, rap music, and other topics related to Black Studies.

Email: kenton.rambsy (at) uta.edu

Related:
A notebook of blog entries (listed chronologically) by Kenton Rambsy
A notebook of blog entries on authors and artists by Kenton Rambsy
A notebook on short stories by black writers
A notebook on digital humanities 

A notebook of blog entries by Kenton Rambsy

What follows are blog entries by Kenton Rambsy, an assistant professor of African American literature and digital humanities at the University of Texas at Arlington. The asterisks (*) connote entries co-written with Howard Rambsy II.

[Related: A notebook of blog entries on authors and artists by Kenton Rambsy]

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2019
• January 16: Visualizing Time and Labor in “the Big 7” Project
• January 9: The Black Short Story Dataset—A List of 101 Anthologies
• January 9: Categorizing Anthology Types in “The Black Short Story Dataset”
• January 4: Visualizing the Big 7 – Data Driven Humanities
• January 4: Discovering the Big 7: Black short story writers and publishing history
• January 4: A Dataset on Black Short Stories

2018
• June 26: Howard University MMUF Summer Institute & Digital Humanities
• June 26: 2018 MMUF Recent PhD Panel
• June 26: The Schomburg-Mellon Summer Humanities Institute 9 Years Later
• June 26: 10 Years as a Mellon Fellow
• April 30: The Black Anthology Project (iLASR Seed Grant)
• April 13: Lost Southern Voices: Mapping Edward P. Jones’s D.C.
• April 9: Black women scholars, digital humanities, and the College Language Association convention, 2018*
• April 3: When an Af-Am Lit. Scholar & Computer Scientist Collaborate: #TheJayZMixtape

2017
• December 28: Reading Baldwin Using Google Trends
• December 28: James Baldwin & LitCharts
• December 28: Baldwin’s Paris: a site by Tyechia Lynn Thompson
• December 19: Data Mining James Baldwin's Short Fiction
• December 12: James Baldwin and Google Scholar Citation Rates
• November 27: Reading James Baldwin in the Digital Age
• September 20: 7 Questions Related to Cultural Geo-Tagging
• September 13: Making a Case for “Small Data” Humanities Projects
• September 6: Lost in the City: A graduate-level literature course on Edward P. Jones
• September 6: Cultural Geo-Tagging—a digital approach
• May 31: The value NEH and Mellon support for DH scholarship, activities
• May 30: Urbanization and African American fiction (Notes on Matthew Wilkens presentation)*
• May 30: Condensed version of the Jay Z Dataset presentation*
• May 29: Visualizing the Length of Jay Z's music*
• May 29: Ted Underwood on Bestsellers*
• May 29: Dispatches from Cultural Analytics symposium*
• May 28: The Jay Z Dataset--presentation at the University of Notre Dame*

2016
• December 5: A Checklist of Digital Humanities projects*
• November 28: African American literature: a timeline*
• November 27: Black Short Stories: A timeline  
• November 22: Mining Malcolm's "Message": A Notebook
• November 22: “Message to the Grassroots” by the numbers*
• November 14: Toni Morrison by the numbers*
• November 9: Jay Z By the Numbers*
• November 7: Malcolm’s Lessons on the Histories of Revolutions*
• November 3: Yes, Malcolm is talking directly to You*
• October 26: The Humor of Malcolm X*
• October 21: Meeting Edward P. Jones at Old Ebbitt Grill
• October 21: Place in the Writings of Edward P. Jones
• October 17: William J. Harris, Bob Dylan, Jay Z & Secondary Literature*
• September 8: Three Principles for Digital Literary Studies
• September 8: Greatest Beefs (Fall 2015)
• September 8: From Slavery to Hip Hop (Fall 2015)
• July 6: A Notebook on the CLA Journal*
• July 5: Reflections on Seshat: A DH Initiative at Howard University   
• July 5: Reflections on the “Space & Place in Africana/Black Studies” Institute 
• July 3: Toward a History of the Black Book Interactive Project 
• July 3: On the origins of the HBW Blog
• June 20: "Seshat: A Digital Humanities Initiative" at Howard University*
• June 20: Jay Z, Metadata, and African American literary studies  
• June 19: African American literary studies and three research methods using digital tools 
• June 19: Slave narratives and word count
• June 19: Chronological List of 33 Slave Narratives*
• June 19: The word counts of 33 Slave narratives*
• June 8: How short and long are African American short stories?
• June 8: Geo-coding black short stories & Jay Z -- Spring 2016 courses at UTA
• June 8: Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Text-Mining Experiments
• June 8: Zora Neale Hurston & Richard Wright Similarities (In Graphs)
• June 8: Zora Neale Hurston & Richard Wright Differences (In Graphs) 
• June 8: #NEHBlackSpace – Space & Place in Africana/Black Studies 
• June 6: Some Free Digital Software Programs and tools 
• June 6: Notebook on Voyant Tools 
• June 5: Voyant Tools General Features
• June 5: Voyant Tools Ratios and Language Density
• June 5: Stop Words and AAVE
• June 5: Voyant Tools: Data Visualizations
• April 25: Geo-Coding Black Short Stories
• April 18: Jay Z, African American literary studies & digital humanities 
• April 10: Jay Z's Magna Carta Holy Grail (sampling sources) 
• April 9: Jay Z's The Blueprint 3 (sampling sources)