About this Project

This website serves as a final project for Doing Things with Novels, a class lead by Jeff Allred at the CUNY Graduate Center during the Fall semester in 2022.

Contributors

Brianna Caszatt

Brianna Caszatt is earning a Master of Arts degree in Digital Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is a editor and a lapsed poet and loves playing with language. Her academic interests include memory studies, mapping, infrastructure, and cemeteries.

Kai Prenger

Kai Prenger is earning a Master of Arts degree in Digital Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center. His academic interests include deformance, interactive experiences, mainframe computers, and mismatching tools and theorical concepts with subject matter.

Project Lineage

The texts chosen for these experiments were initially used for an audiobook group project. For that project, three separate readers recording a reading of each text in its entirety with a cell phone and dictation software. These recordings were then spliced together and interwoven to create a larger text constitutive of all three. A text version of this audiobook is available on this site as The Yellow-Wallpapered Box-Social Story of an Hour. The contributors would like to thank Majel Peters, Natalie Kretschmer, Patricia Belen, Raquel Neris, and JP Essey for their contributions to the audiobook, which inspired our project.

Technologies Used

Natural lanaguage processing (NLP) was helped along by Compromise, a Javascript/NodeJS library that tries to treat language as data.

A combination of vanilla Javascript and a sprinkling of JQuery facilitated processing, interactivity, and simple DOM manipulation.

Bulma was used and (heavily) misused to style this project's pages.

Hosting is provided by Github Pages.

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