Map Your Hero(ine)

Sources

Bamman, David, Brendan O’Connor, and Noah A. Smith. “Learning Latent Personas of Film Characters.” Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 4-9 August 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013. pp. 352–61.

Jockers, Matthew L. Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History. U of Illinois P, 2013.

Jockers, Matthew L., and Gabi Kirilloff. “Understanding Gender and Character Agency in the 19th Century Novel.” Journal of Cultural Analytics, vol. 2, no. 2, 2016, pp. 1-26.

Kraicer, Eve, and Andrew Piper. “Social Characters: The Hierarchy of Gender in Contemporary English-Language Fiction.” Journal of Cultural Analytics, vol. 3, no. 2, 2018, pp. 1-28.

Piper, Andrew. Data and Literary Study. U of Chicago P, 2018.

Shepard, Louisa. “‘May the Force Be With You’ and Other Fan Fiction Favorites.” Penn Today, 18 Dec. 2019. and the fan engagement meter.

Underwood, Ted, David Bamman, and Sabrina Lee. “The Transformation of Gender in English-Language Fiction.” Journal of Cultural Analytics, vol. 3, no. 2, 2018, pp. 1-25.

See also Underwood’s video (2.51 mins) and Underwood’s site on gender visualisation.

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