Beginning to Have Something to Show for It
What I envision is parallel transcriptions of all witnesses to the text of the Mishnah (including citations in the Talmuds and the commentaries, although I [...]
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Dec 2011
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Dec 2011
Searching for the Quantum Dimension of Foreign Literature
Reading the New York Times a few weeks back, I stumbled upon an article that made me think about the kind of research we are [...]
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Dec 2011
Beginnings
It might seem strange to be talking about "beginnings" just as the semester is winding down, but that's exactly where I'm at: taking my very [...]
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Dec 2011
Beginnings…
Call me Ahab: I’m the leader of the merry band of pirates about to set sail on the Foreign Literatures in America (FLA) project. If [...]
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Nov 2011
What’s the Virtue of Virtuality?
As is generally the case with things intellectual, progress on my digital archive has been quite slow. I have several "handlers" (as I call them) [...]
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Nov 2011
Progress Involves Some Undoing
Thanks to the input of Travis Brown, Assistant Director at MITH and the programmer working on this project, I am now revisiting the organization of [...]
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Nov 2011
Confessions
As a professor in the humanities, I've spent a career committed to scholarly research. But I confess to having definite likes and dislikes. Here's what [...]
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Oct 2011
Starting Out
This blog describes my progress on a born-digital critical edition of the Mishnah. For the various audiences who might read this, let me break out [...]