As part of its ongoing work, the project team endeavors to produce publications and presentations that report on methods developed, theoretical consequences of digital intertextual search, and applied literary studies. The Tesserae project is by nature collaborative and interdisciplinary, and we welcome feedback from users and interested scholars.
This work has been supported by a Start-Up Grant and a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the Office of Digital Humanities of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
PUBLICATIONS
| 2020 | Coffee, N., C. Gawley. “How Rare are the Words that Make up Intertexts? A Study in Latin and Greek Epic Poetry.” In: Coffee, N., et al (eds.). Intertextuality in Flavian Epic Poetry. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. [Paper] |
| 2020 | Coffee, N., C. Forstall, Lavinia Galli Milić, and Damien Nelis (eds.). Intertextuality in Flavian Epic Poetry. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. [Volume Intro] |
| 2019 | Yolles, Julian. “Review: Discovering Intertextual Parallels in latin and Greek Texts with Tesserae.” SCS Blog, Society for Classical Studies, March 24, 2019, [Blog Post] |
| 2019 | Forstall, Christopher W. and Walter J. Scheirer. 2019. Quantitative Intertextuality: Analyzing the Markers of Information Reuse. Springer International Publishing. |
| 2019 | Coffee, N. “Intertextuality as Viral Phrases: Roses and Lilies.” In Monica Berti (ed.). Digital Classical Philology:Ancient Greek and Latin in the Digital Revolution. De Gruyter, pp. 177-200. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110599572. [Paper] |
| 2018 | Coffee, N. “An Agenda for the Study of Intertextuality.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 148.1. Pp. 205-223. https://doi.org/10.1353/apa.2018.0008. [Paper]. |
| 2017 | Coffee, N., C. Forstall, and J. Gawley. “The Tesserae Project: Detecting Intertextuality of Meaning and Sound.” In Mastandrea, P. (ed.), Strumenti digitali e collaborativi per le Scienze dell’Antichità. Antichistica 14, Filolologia e letteratura 3. Edizioni Ca’Foscari. Pp. 189-92. https://doi.org/10.14277/6969-182-9/ANT-14-14. [Paper] |
| 2017 | Diddams, A. C. and J. Gawley. “Measuring the Presence of Roman Rhetoric: An Intertextual Analysis of Augustine’s De Doctrina Christiana IV.” Mouseion. Volume 14, Number 3, 2017, LVIII-Series III pp. 391-408. |
| 2016 | Coffee, N. and C. Forstall. “Claudian’s Engagement with Lucan in his Historical and Mythological Hexameters” in V. Berlincourt, L. Galli-Milić, D. Nelis (eds.). Lucan and Claudian: Context and Intertext. Winter Verlag. Pp. 255-84. [BMCR Review] |
| 2016 | Scheirer, W., C. Forstall, and N. Coffee. “The Sense of a Connection: Automatic Tracing of Intertextuality by Meaning” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 31 (1): 204-217. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqu058. |
| 2015 | Forstall, C., N. Coffee, T. Buck, K. Roache, and S. Jacobson. “Modeling the Scholars: Detecting Intertextuality through Enhanced Word-Level N-Gram Matching.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 30 (4): 503-515. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqu014. [Abstract] [Preprint] |
| 2014 | Coffee, N., J. Gawley, Christopher Forstall, Walter Scheirer, Jason Corso, David Johnson, and Brian Parks. “Modeling the Interpretation of Literary Allusion with Machine Learning Techniques.” Journal of Digital Humanities 3.1. [Poster] |
| 2012 | Coffee, N., J.-P. Koenig, S. Poornima, C. Forstall, R. Ossewaarde, and S. Jacobson. “The Tesserae Project: Intertextual Analysis of Latin Poetry” Literary and Linguistic Computing 28.1: 221-8. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqs033. [Abstract] [Preprint] |
| 2012 | Coffee, N., J.-P. Koenig, S. Poornima, C. Forstall, R. Ossewaarde, and S. Jacobson. “Intertextuality in the Digital Age.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 142.2: 383-422. [Abstract] [Preprint] |
| 2011 | Forstall, C., S. Jacobson, and W. Schierer (2011) “Evidence of Intertextuality: Investigating Paul the Deacon’s Angustae Vitae.” Literary and Linguistic Computing 26 (3): 285-296. [Abstract] [Preprint] |
| 2010 | Forstall, C. and W. Scheirer (2010) “Features from Frequency: Authorship and Stylistic Analysis Using Repetitive Sound,” Proceedings of the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science 1(2). [Abstract] [Paper] |
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
| 2015 | “Intertextuality in Flavian Epic Poetry.” May 28–30, Fondation Hardt, Geneva, Switzerland. Co-Organized with Damien Nelis, Lavinia Galli-Milic, and Christopher Forstall, U. Geneva Classics. [Conference Program] |
| 2014 | “Intertextualité et humanités numériques: approches, méthodes, tendances. Intertextuality and digital humanities: approaches, methods, trends.” February 13-15, Fondation Hardt, Geneva, Switzerland. Co-Organized with Damien Nelis and Lavinia Galli-Milic, U. Geneva Classics. [Conference Program] |
PRESENTATIONS
| 2018 | Scheirer, Walter. “Tesserae Information Service.” NEH Office of Digital Humanities Directors Meeting Lightning Round. February 9. [video, starting at 2-hour mark] |
| 2017 | Coffee, Neil. “Roses and Lilies: What Digital Approaches Can Do for the Study of Intertextuality.” Classical Philology goes digital. Working on textual phenomena of ancient texts. Potsdam, Germany. February 16-17.” [abstract] [slides] |
| 2017 | Gawley, James, Elizabeth Hunter, Tessa Little, and Caitlin Diddams. “Vergil and Homer: a Digital Annotation of Knauer’s Intertextual Catalogue.” DiXit Workshop: “The Educational Impact of DSE.” Rome, Italy. January 24. |
| 2017 | Gawley, James. “Intertext Mining with Tesserae.” Ancient MakerSpaces Workshop, SCS 2017. Toronto, Canada. January 7. |
| 2016 | Diddams, Caitlin. “Comparative Bigram Frequencies of Latin Authors and the Classical Latin Corpus.” LAWDNY Digital Antiquity Research Workshop 2016 at ISAW. December 2. |
| 2016 | Diddams, Caitlin. “Something Old, Something New: Quantifying the Influence of Ancient Latin Epic on Prudentius’ Psychomachia.” Rising Up: Resurgences and Revivals in the Ancient World. Buffalo, NY. October 1. |
| 2016 | Forstall, Christopher W., Galli Milić, Lavinia, and Nelis, Damien, “Approaches to Thematic Classification for Latin Epic.” Digital Humanities 2016. July. Krakow, Poland. |
| 2016 | Gawley, J, and Diddams, C. “Big Data and the Study of Allusion: an Exploration of Tesserae’s Multitext Capability.” Digital Humanities 2016. July. Krakow, Poland. |
| 2016 | Bernstein, Neil. “Practical criticism and the new digital tools for intertextual study. Comparing Tesserae and Musisque Deoque.” Midwest Classical Literature Consortium, Oberlin College, April 16. |
| 2016 | Diddams, C. “Echoes of Cicero: A Digital Approach to Augustine’s Presentation of Pauline Diction.” Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting. March 18. Williamsburg, VA. |
| 2015 | Forstall, C. and Galli Milić L. “Thematic features for intertextual analysis.” Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin. October 13. |
| 2015 | Burns, P. “Measuring allusive density in Lucan’s Bellum civile using Tesserae.” Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. October 2. |
| 2015 | Bernstein, N. “Comparative Rates of Text Reuse in Classical Latin Hexameter Poetry.” Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting. March. Boulder, CO. |
| 2015 | Coffee, N. Response. “Making Meaning from Data” Digital Classics Association Joint Colloquium, American Institute of Archaeology and Society for Classical Studies Annual Meetings. January 11. New Orleans, LA. |
| 2014 | Gawley, J., Forstall, C, and Clark, K. “Automating the Search for Cross-Language Text Reuse.” Short paper, Digital Humanities 2014. July 11. Lausanne, Switzerland. [slides] |
| 2014 | Scheirer, W. and Forstall, C. “Euterpe’s Hidden Song: Patterns in Elegy.” Poster, Digital Humanities 2014. July 10. Lausanne, Switzerland. |
| 2014 | Coffee, N. Participant in panel “Rethinking Text Reuse as Digital Classicists.” Digital Humanities 2014. July 10. Lausanne, Switzerland. |
| 2014 | Coffee, N. “Modeling the Scholars: Detecting Intertextuality through Enhanced Word-Level N-Gram Matching.” June 2. International Workshop on Computer Aided Processing of Intertextuality in Ancient Languages. Institut national des sciences appliquées de Lyon. [Conference Program] |
| 2014 | Gervais, K. “Flavian Intertextuality: A Digital Approach,” 35th ASCS Conference, January 2014, Aukland, NZ [Paper] |
| 2014 | Bernstein, N., Gervais, K., Lin, W. “Comparative Rates of Text Reuse in Latin Epic.” American Philological Association / American Institute of Archaeology Annual Meetings. January 3. [Screencast] |
| 2013 | Coffee, N. “Roses and Lilies: Digital Adventures in Intertextuality.” Invited lecture, Yale University. December 5. |
| 2013 | Gawley, J., C. Forstall, Konnor Clark, and Amy Miu. “Two methods for discovering cross-language text reuse.” Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities & Computer Science December 5. |
| 2013 | Coffee, N., J. Gawley, C. Forstall, W. Scheirer, D. Johnson, J. Corso and B. Parks “Modeling the Interpretation of Literary Allusion with Machine Learning Techniques.” Electronic poster presented at Digital Humanities 2013, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, July 18. [Abstract] [Slides] |
| 2013 | Coffee, N., C. Forstall, and J. Gawley. “What is Allusion? A Digital Approach.” Poster presented at the Digital Classics Association conference, University at Buffalo, April 5. |
| 2012 | Forstall, C. and W. J. Scheirer. “Revealing hidden patterns in the meter of Homer’s Iliad.” Poster presented at the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. November 17-19. [Abstract] [Poster] |
| 2012 | Gawley, J., C. Forstall, and N. Coffee. “Evaluating the literary significance of text re-use in Latin poetry.” Poster presented at Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. November 17-19. [Abstract] [Poster] |
| 2012 | Coffee, N. “Large- and Small-Scale Intertextuality in Claudian’s Historical and Mythical Hexameters.” Paper presented at “Lucain et Claudien face à face: une poésie politique entre épopée, histoire et panégyrique,” Fondation Hardt, Vandœuvres-Geneva, Switzerland, November 8-10. |
| 2012 | Forstall, C. “Revealing Intertextuality with Tesserae.” Workshop presented at “Lucain et Claudien face à face: une poésie politique entre épopée, histoire et panégyrique,” Fondation Hardt, Vandœuvres-Geneva, Switzerland, November 8-10. |
| 2011 | Coffee, N., J.-P. Koenig, S. Poornima, C. Forstall, R. Ossewaarde, and S. Jacobson. “The Tesserae Project: Intertextual Analysis of Latin Poetry.” Poster presented at Digital Humanities 2011, Stanford University, June 19–21. [Abstract] [Poster] |
| 2011 | Forstall, C. and W. Scheirer. “Visualizing Sound as Functional N-Grams in Homeric Greek Poetry.” Poster presented at Digital Humanities 2011, Stanford University, June 19–21. [Abstract] [Poster] |
| 2010 | Forstall, C. and W. Scheirer. “A Statistical Stylistic Study of Latin Elegiac Couplets.” Poster presented at the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, Nov. 21–22. [Abstract] [Poster] |
REFERENCES TO TESSERAE
| 2020 | Pade, Marriane. 2020. “Imitation and Intertextuality in Humanist Translation”, in Philology Then and Now. Proceedings of the Danish Academy in Rome , 16 July 2019, Academia di Danimarca, 169–186. |
| 2020 | Corbeill, A. 2020. “How not to Write like Cicero: Pridie quam in exilium iret oratio,” Ciceroniana Online. IV:1. pp. 17-36. [Paper] |
| Forthcoming | Barker, E. and M. Terras. “Greek Literature, the Digital Humanities, and the Shifting Technologies of Reading.” Oxford Handbooks Online. |
| 2017 | Nelis, D., Forstall, C., and Galli Milic, Lavinia. “Intertextuality and narrative context: digital narratology?” <hal-01480773>. |
| 2016 | Marmerola G. D., Oikawa M. A., Dias Z., Goldenstein S., and Rocha A. “On the Reconstruction of Text Phylogeny Trees: Evaluation and Analysis of Textual Relationships.” PLoS ONE 11(12): e0167822. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0167822. |
| 2016 | Burns, Patrick. “Measuring and Mapping Intergeneric Allusion in Latin Poetry using Tesserae.” Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities. [Paper] |
| 2016 | Roe, G., Gladstone, C., Morrissey, R. et al 2016, ‘Digging into ECCO: Identifying Commonplaces and other Forms of Text Reuse at Scale’, Digital Humanities DH2016, ed. Maciej Eder, Jan Rybicki, The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, Krakow, Poland, pp. 336-339. |
| 2016 |
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| 2016 | Verhaar, P.A.F. Affordances and limitations of algorithmic criticism. Ph.D. Dissertation. Leiden. [Dissertation] |
| 2016 | Duhaime, Douglas Ernest. “Textual Reuse in the Eighteenth Century: Mining Eliza Haywood’s Quotations.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 10.1 [Paper] |
| 2016 | Montoro, Rocío. “The year’s work in stylistics 2015.” Language and Literature 25(4): 380. |
| 2015 | Bernstein, Neil, Kyle Gervais, and Wei Lin. “Comparative Rates of Text Reuse in Classical Latin Hexameter Poetry.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 9.3. [Paper] |
| 2015 | Authors Guild v. Google Inc. 2nd Circuit Appeals Court Decision October 16. P. 8 n. 6 citing Forstall, Coffee et al. 2015 as an exemplary use of digitized texts. |
| 2015 | Chaudhuri, Pramit, Joseph P. Dexter, and Jorge A. Bonilla Lopez. “Strings, Triangles, and Go-betweens: Intertextual Approaches to Silius’ Carthaginian Debates.” Dictynna 12 [Paper] |
| 2015 | Newlands, Carole E., Kyle Gervais, and William J. Dominik, “Reading Statius” in Brill’s Companion to Statius. p. 12 n. 49. |
| 2015 | Buchanan, S. “The Emerging Tradition of Digital Classics” in Annual Review of Cultural Heritage Informatics: 2014, ed. S. K. Hastings. New York; Rowman & Littlefield. |
| 2014 | Mastandrea, Paolo. “Laudes Domini e Vestigia Ennii. Automatismi e volontarietà nel riuso dei testi.” Il calamo della memoria VI: 51-80. p. 51 n. 3. [Paper] |
| 2014 | Büchler, M., G. Franzini, E. Franzini and M. Moritz. “Scaling Historical Text Re-use.” Big Data (Big Data), 2014 IEEE International Conference. [Abstract] |
| 2014 | Crane, Gregory, Bridget Almas, et al. “Cataloging for a billion word library of Greek and Latin.” DATeCH ’14 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage. p. 83-88. [Paper] |
| 2014 | Ganascia, J.-G., P. Glaudes and A. Del Lungo. 2014. “Automatic Detection of Reuses and Citations in Literary Texts.” Literary and Linguistic Computing 29: 412-421. [Paper] |
| 2014 | Ripoll, François. “Mémoire de Valérius Flaccus dans l’Achilléide de Stace.” Revue des Etudes Anciennes 116: 84 n. 5. |
| 2013 | Williams, David-Antoine. “Method as tautology in the digital humanities.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/ |
| 2013 | Baraz, Yelena and Christopher van den Berg. “Introduction” to special issue on Intertextuality. American Journal of Philology 134(2013): p.4 n.22. [Paper] |