Author Archives: LoriBrister

For the last year I’ve been organizing a digital humanities working group in my graduate department. Like many scholars, I’ve been hearing about DH for a few years, and I’ve even been excited about potentials and projects, but I’ve never really … Continue reading →

Fall 2013 is underway, and that means there’s a new class blog up at  EnglishLiteratureFall2013.wordpress.com. (It’s a bit wordy, but it’s easy for students to remember.) The three most common questions I get from colleagues each semester are (1) How … Continue reading →

I would be remiss to let this month–June, Pride month–and this historic week pass without paying at least some small tribute to the Edie Windsor, the Stonewall rioters, the plaintiffs of Prop 8, the majority opinions of the Supreme Court, … Continue reading →

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been organizing the Summer Salon Series, bringing together friends and colleagues to discuss music, dance, politics, art, and current events. After the inaugural event, I was asked by Molly Lewis, president of GW’s English … Continue reading →

Vernon Lee was more than just a nom de plume for Violet Plaget, it was her identity. She may have adopted the name to establish a reputation as an aesthete or to sell more books, but among her closest friends, she became Vernon Lee, and to the poet … Continue reading →

Here you’ll find updates about my research, sagas from the archives, spotlights on obscure texts I’m reading, information about upcoming conferences, and info about my many experimental prototypes in the Digital Humanities. And you may, from time to time, find … Continue reading →