Date: Winter 2022
Threads: Data Analysis, DH Feminism, Data Visualization, Distant Reading, Open Data, Humanities Visualization
This project was my senior thesis for the English major. In it, I analyzed how women enact power in Shakespeare’s comedies by visualizing their speech patterns. I hand-annotated each comedy for who talks to whom, designed and coded visualizations to present the speech pattern data, and then wrote an essay analyzing the visualizations and contextualizing my work within previous literary and DH analysis of Shakespeare. This is the largest research project I have undertaken solo and it allowed me to execute a project from conception to execution. It was also the first time I explicitly used a feminist lens in creating and analyzing a visualization. This work is set to be published as part of the QuaDramA workshop proceedings in September 2022.
