Chris Forster's Blog

Chris Forster is a PhD candidate in the department of English at the University of Virginia. His research is centered on the literature, art, and culture of the turn of the twentieth century. His dissertation argues that the emergence of a market in mass produced "obscene" printed material in the early twentieth century prompted a rethinking of the use and value of the category of "aesthetic" experience among key modernist figures. Chris's interests extend beyond modernism into literary theory, the history of the book, and the digital humanities. Chris sometimes blogs about TEI, text analysis, visualization, and statistically grounded authorship attribution. He explores these interests with his amateurish programming abilities, taking advantage of Python (and the wonderful Natural Language Toolkit) and Processing.