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Gender/Novels

DH Lab-internal project

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    SHASS Affiliated Projects

  • Year

    Fall 2018

The first project of the MIT Digital Humanities Lab analyzed the description of gender and gender roles across a large repertory of novels in the English language, primarily from the nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Our goal was to build computational tools that helped us understand how conceptions of gender were expressed and changed through distant reading of thousands of books. Our database involves over 4200 novels sourced from the Gutenberg project and gives us a comprehensive look at the views of authors of the time period.

Women sitting in a room reading books and talking

Student Team

  • Ife Ademolu-Odeneye

  • Samantha York

  • Dina Atia

  • Elena Boal

  • Alena Culbertson

  • Howard DaCosta

  • Mingfei Duan

  • Maritza Gallegos

  • Assel Ismoldayeva

  • Elsa Itambo

  • Kelsey Merrill

  • Charlotte Minsky

  • Keith Murray

  • Carol Pan

  • Isaac Redlon

  • Shobhita Sundaram

  • Felix Tran

  • Katherine Xu

  • Derek Yen

  • Sophia Zhi

  • Susanna Chen

  • Michelle Li

  • Ayden Johnson

  • Erastus Murungi

  • Kateryna Morhun

  • Nisha Nkya

  • Rawisara (Mimi) Lohanimit

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