Mandell, Laura Professor

Laura Mandell is Professor of English at Texas A&M University where she founded, and for 12 years directed, the Center of Digital Humanities Research. Selected as a Texas A&M Presidential Impact Fellow in 2017, she is the author of Breaking the Book: Print Humanities in the Digital Age (2015), Misogynous Economies: The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1999), and numerous articles and chapters. She is Project Director of the Poetess Archive, an online scholarly edition and database of women poets, 1750-1900 (http://www.poetessarchive.org), Acquisitions Editor of 18thConnect (http://www.18thConnect.org), and Director of ARC (http://www.ar-c.org), the Advanced Research Consortium overseeing NINES, 18thConnect, and MESA. She spearheaded the Early Modern OCR project or "eMOP" (http://emop.tamu.edu), a project concerned with improving OCR for early modern and 18th-c. texts via high performance and cluster computing. Dr. Mandell's digital projects include the Digital New Variorum Shakespeare (newvariorumshakespeare.org), TypeWright (a crowd-sourced OCR correction tool available at 18thConnect.org), and the Big Data Infrastructure Visualization Application (bigdiva.org).