Poemage is a visualization tool that supports close reading. The result of a two-year design study of the value of computation to poetry scholarship, the tool allows you to explore and visualize the complex sonic structures in a poem. Watch this short introductory video and pay close attention: Mina Loy’s “Last Lunar Baedeker” is featured […]
Loy Site Cited in Call for Papers
Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde wins NEH grant
We are thrilled and honored to have won a 2017 Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to expand and develop Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde. You can read about the grant award here: The National Endowment for the Humanities: Announcing New ODH Grant Awards Davidson College: Digital Humanities Project Wins Prestigious NEH […]
Ghost in an Avant-Garde Alley
James McAuley’s article “The Artists in Their Alley, In Postwar France,” featured in the Style Magazine of the Sunday New York Times, seems to exemplify Mina Loy’s position in the “alleys” of the avant-garde. In the online version, she appears front and center of a group portrait that gets top billing (less prominent in the print magazine), but she never […]
Spontaneous Peer Review
Here’s an example of how digital platforms for scholarship upend the traditional, slow, linear trajectories of academic print publication. Our website Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde has received a wonderful, online review on MLACommons before we’ve officially gone public or been peer-reviewed. Since this review, we’ve restructured the website, redesigning the user interface and adding more student work and interactive features. […]
