Drout, Michael D.C., Gerkin, Jonathan and Kleinman, S. (2022). “St. Erkenwald,” in Becoming the Pearl Poet, ed. Jane Beal. (Kensington, MD: Rowman & Littlefield / Lexington Books, 2022), 93-106.
Dockray-Miller, Mary and Drout, Michael D.C. with Sarah Kinkade and Jillian Valerio (2021). “The Author and the Authors of the ’Vita Ædwardi Regis:’ Women’s Literary Culture and Digital Humanities. Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures 8 (2021): 160–213. https://doi.org/10.54103/interfaces-08-09.
Drout, Michael D.C. (2019). “Adapting Lexomic Analyses to Old English Gloss Corpora: A general strategy and some preliminary results” in Studies on Late Antique and Medieval Germanic Glossography and Lexicography in Honour of Patrizia Lendinara. ed. Loredana Teresi et al. (Pisa: ETS, 2019), 265-86.
Drout , Michael D.C. and Leah Smith (2018). “A Pebble Smoothed by Tradition: Lines 607-661 of Beowulf as a formulaic set-piece,” Oral Tradition 32/1 (2018): 191-228.
Zhang, C. ’18, Feng, W. ’19, Steffens, E. ’18, de Landaluce, A. ’17, Kleinman, S. and LeBlanc, M.D. (2018). Lexos 2017: Building Reliable Software in Python.The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, v33(6), 124-134.
[under consideration] Michael D.C. Drout and Wenzhuo Shi. “Rolling Window Analysis of The Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢): Some promising early results from new “Lexomic” methods.” DHQ
[under consideration] Peizhen Wu and Michael D. C. Drout. “’The Course of Actual Composition’: Analysis of some aspects of the revision history of The Lord of the Rings using “Lexomic” digital methods.” Tolkien Studies.
Grants
LeBlanc, M.D. (PI), Drout, M., and Kleinman, S. (May 2015 – June 2017). National Endowment for the Humanities – NEH (Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant) — Easing Entry and Improving Access to Computer-Assisted Text Analysis for the Humanities.
Drout, M. (PI), Kahn, M., and LeBlanc, M.D. (July 2011 – June 2013). National Endowment for the Humanities – NEH PR-50112011 — Lexomic Tools and Methods for Textual Analysis: Providing Deep Access to Digitized Texts.
LeBlanc, M. (PI), Drout, M. and Kahn, M. (July 2008 – June 2010). National Endowment for the Humanities NEH HD-50300-08 (Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant) — Pattern Recognition through Computational Stylistics: Old English and Beyond.
Publications
Drout, Michael D.C., Gerkin, Jonathan and Kleinman, S. (2022). “St. Erkenwald,” in Becoming the Pearl Poet, ed. Jane Beal. (Kensington, MD: Rowman & Littlefield / Lexington Books, 2022), 93-106.
Dockray-Miller, Mary and Drout, Michael D.C. with Sarah Kinkade and Jillian Valerio (2021). “The Author and the Authors of the ’Vita Ædwardi Regis:’ Women’s Literary Culture and Digital Humanities. Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures 8 (2021): 160–213. https://doi.org/10.54103/interfaces-08-09.
Drout, Michael D.C. (2019). “Adapting Lexomic Analyses to Old English Gloss Corpora: A general strategy and some preliminary results” in Studies on Late Antique and Medieval Germanic Glossography and Lexicography in Honour of Patrizia Lendinara. ed. Loredana Teresi et al. (Pisa: ETS, 2019), 265-86.
Zhang, C. ’18, Feng, W. ’19, Steffens, E. ’18, de Landaluce, A. ’17, Kleinman, S. and LeBlanc, M.D. (2018). Lexos 2017: Building Reliable Software in Python.The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, v33(6), 124-134.
Drout , Michael D.C. and Leah Smith (2018). “A Pebble Smoothed by Tradition: Lines 607-661 of Beowulf as a formulaic set-piece,” Oral Tradition 32/1 (2018): 191-228.
Boese, E.S., LeBlanc, M.D., and Quinn, B.A. (2017). “EngageCSEdu: Making interdisciplinary connections to engage students.” ACM Inroads, v8(2), 33-36.
Nichols, R., K. Nielbo, E. Slingerland, U. Bergeton, C. Logan, and S. Kleinman. (forthcoming). “Modeling the contested relationship between Analects, Mencius, and Xunzi: Preliminary evidence from a Machine-Learning Approach.” Journal of Asian Studies.
LeBlanc, M.D. (2016). Computing and the Digital Humanities. An NCWIT Teaching Paper: National Center for Women & Information Technology. Published accompanying sets of course materials for the “Computing for Poets” course.
Michael D.C. Drout, Yvette Kisor, Leah Smith ’14, Allison Dennett and Natasha Piirainen (2016). Beowulf Unlocked: New Evidence from Lexomic Analysis. New York: Palgrave Pivot.
Michael D.C. Drout and Elie Chauvet (2015). “Tracking the Moving Ratio of þ to ð in Anglo-Saxon Texts: A New Method, and Evidence for a lost Old English version of the ‘Song of the Three Youths.’” Anglia 133.2: 278-319.
Rosetta Berger ’15 and Michael D.C. Drout (2015). “A Reconsideration of the Relationship Between Víga-Glúms Saga and Reykdœla Saga: New Evidence from Lexomic Analysis.” Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, 11, 1-32.
Boyd, P., Drout, M.D.C., Hitotsubashi, N. ’13, Kahn, M., LeBlanc, M.D. and Smith, L. ’14 (2014). “Lexomic Analysis of Anglo-Saxon Prose: Establishing Controls with the Old English Penitential and the Old English translation of Orosius.” Revista de la Sociedad Española de Lengua y Literatura Inglesa Medieval (SELIM) 19, 7-58.
Drout, M.D.C., Hitotsubashi, N. ’13 and Scavera, R. (2014). “Tolkien’s Creation of the Impression of Depth.” Tolkien Studies 11, 167-210.
Downey, S., Drout, M.D.C., Kerekes, V., and Raffle, D. (2014). “Lexomic Analysis of Medieval Latin Texts,” Journal of Medieval Latin 24, 225-74.
Drout, M.D.C., Kahn, M., LeBlanc, M.D., Jones, A. ‘11, Kathok, N. ‘10, and Nelson, C. ’11. “Lexomics for Anglo-Saxon Literature.” Old English Newsletter, 2010.
LeBlanc, M.D., Gousie, M. and Armstrong, T. (March 2010). Connecting Across Campus. Proceedings of the 41st SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Milwaukee, WI.
LeBlanc, M.D. Computing for Poets. Presented at SIGCSE 2010 – The Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Milwaukee, WI, March 12, 2010.
Talks and Workshops
Mark and Kate Boylan presented a workshop entitled “Lexos: An introductory tool for a new close reading” at the Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference (CTDH 2020) at Trinity College in Hartford, CT on Feb. 29, 2020.
Mark and Kate Boylan presented “Exploring Digitized Texts in the Humanities” at The New England Digital Connections Digital Humanities Island Retreat, Appledore Island, Isle of Shoals, Maine in August 2019.
Mike Drout presented “Lexomic Analysis of Anglo-Saxon Literature” at Old / New / Borrowed: The Marriage of Premodern Literature and Computational Science, Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, April 23-25, 2019.
Mark, Kate Boylan, and Mike presented at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, NC at their Summer Institute in the Interdisciplinary Humanities during the week of June 11-15, 2018.
Drout presented “A (Rolling) Window on the Verse: Lexomic Analysis of Word-Foot Patterns in Anglo-Saxon Poetry,” 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2018, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.
Drout also presented “Archiving Lexomics Research” in New Directions in Archiving: The Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship roundtable, 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2018, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.
Mark presented at Susquehanna University (Selinsgrove, PA) on Monday, March 26, 2018 at their Center for Teaching and Learning (“Experiments in Digital Scholarship: Project-Based Learning at Wheaton College”) and then later in the day to English, Math, and Computer Science faculty (“Lexomics: Blending start-up and research cultures across the academy”).
Mark and Kate Boylan presented “From coding to curating: a decade of building tools for close reading of digitized texts” and Mark led a hands-on workshop “Introducing Students to Explorations of Digitized Texts” at Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference, Oct. 6-8, 2017.
Scott led a hands-on workshop “Text Analysis with Lexos” at the Institute of Advanced Communication, Education and Research, Kathmandu, Nepal, June 2017.
Mark led a hands-on workshop using Lexos at CCSCNE 2017: “Bringing Computational Thinking to the Digital Humanities: Introducing Students to Explorations of Digitized Texts” at the College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY, April 7, 2017
Mark led a hands-on workshop using Lexos at NeMLA 2017: “Using Lexos to Explore your Digital Texts” (Baltimore, MD, March 23, 2017)
Mike, Mark, and Kate Boylan presented “Lexos: Easing Entry to Computational Studies with Digitized Texts” [Boston College Libraries Coffee & Code series, March 20, 11-12:30 pm., O’Neill Library, Digital Studio, Room 205]
Presented at MLA 2017: “Reducing Barriers to Participation in Automated Text Analysis in the Humanities” (Philadelphia, PA, January 2017)
Michael D.C. Drout. “Lexomic Approaches: An Introduction,” Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU)’s Faculty Summer Institute for Technology & New Media. Charlotte, NC. June 6-10, 2016.
Michael D.C. Drout. “Linguistics and Lexomics,” Weekend Seminar, Schooling for Life, Los Angeles, CA. May 13-15, 2016.
“Sex, Space, and Sanctuary: Translating Freedom in Laȝamon’s Brut and the South English Legendary’s Life of St Mary of Egypt,” Presented at the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 2016
Michael D.C. Drout. “…and then the Liberal Arts take over everything: Convergence and the growing power of our intellectual tradition,” Benedictine College, Atchison, KS, March 30, 2016.
Presented at Digital Britain: New Approaches to the Early Middle Ages, March 25-26, 2016, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
LeBlanc, M.D. – “Using Lexos to Mine Medieval Texts: The Lexomic Workflow”
Drout, M.D.C. – “Two Kinds of Lexomic Evidence and the Composition and Transmission of Beowulf“
Dockray-Miller, M. (Lesley University) – “Lexomic Goscelin”
Kleinman, S. (California State University, Northridge) – “Lexomic Evidence and the Composition of the Early Middle English South English Legendary“
“Digital Humanities Projects with Small and Unusual Data: Some Experiences from the Trenches,” Invited lecture at the UC Irvine Data Sciences and Digital Humanities Symposium, February 2016. The transcript (Here) was selected as an Editor’s Choice by Digital Humanities Now (15 March 2016).
LeBlanc, M.D., Drout, M.D.C., and Lund J. (March 11, 2016). “Using Research Projects to Promote Information Fluency.” Presented at The Council of Independent Colleges Information Fluency in the Disciplines: Workshop on English and American Language and Literature, Louisville, KY.
“Text Analysis with Lexos,” Workshop on Building and Strengthening Digital Humanities through a Regional Network, San Diego State University, San Diego, October 2015
LeBlanc, M.D. (September 2015). “Exploring Digitized Texts: the Digital Humanities as Makers.” Presented at Denison University, Granville, OH.
Delfino, D. ’14, Jensen, B. ’15, Li, M. ’14, Morneau, J. ’16, and Neal, R. ’14 (2014). “Lexos: A Text Mining Workflow.” Poster presentation at the Northeast region of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSCNE 2014), Providence College, Providence, RI, April 25, 2014. This work won 3rd place (out of 51) for best student research.
Drout, M.D.C., LeBlanc, M.D., Neal, R. ’14, Berger, R. ’15, Hitotsubashi, N. ’13, Smith, L. ’14. (2013). “Graduate Workshop: Using Lexomics Tools.” Presented at the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS 2013), Dublin, Ireland, July 28, 2013.
LeBlanc, M.D., Drout, M.D.C., Kahn, M., Herbert, A. ’14, Neal, R. ’14 (2013). “Lexomics: Integrating the research and teaching spaces.” Presented at and published in proceedings of Digital Humanities 2013, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, July 2013: p274-276.
Drout, M.D.C. and LeBlanc, M.D. (2013). “Mule Bone 2.0,” in Session 14.05, the Literary Interventions of the Digital Humanities, 44th Annual NeMLA Convention, March 21-24, 2013, Tufts University, Boston.
Christian, S. (collaborator) and La Brie, C. (2013). “Mule Bone 2.0,” in Session 5.08, Make it New: Approach for Teaching the Harlem Renaissance, 44th Annual NeMLA Convention, March 21-24, 2013, Tufts University, Boston.
LeBlanc, M.D. (PI), Drout, M., and Kleinman, S. (May 2015 – June 2017). National Endowment for the Humanities – NEH (Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant) — Easing Entry and Improving Access to Computer-Assisted Text Analysis for the Humanities.