David Joseph Wrisley
Biographic Data
| ID | 5987386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Joseph Wrisley |
| GIVEN NAMES | David Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Wrisley |
| SIGNATURE | WRISLEY D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University of Beirut |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0355-1487 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Digital Humanities—Ways Forward; Future Challenges
Have digital tools and methods accelerated the rate of scholarly production over the last 20 years? If so, has this acceleration been beneficial for scholarship? This article considers examples of accelerated historical scholarship as well as calls for a “slow history.” Through an analysis of the author's own experiences with the digital humanities, it examines the advantages and disadvantages of digital technologies in the field of history. It c…
Automated Transcription of Non-Latin Script Periodicals
Our study discusses the automated transcription with deep learning methods of a digital newspaper collection printed in a historical language, Arabic-script Ottoman Turkish (OT), dating to the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century. We situate OT text collections within a larger history of digitization of periodicals, underscoring special challenges faced by Arabic script languages. Our paper approaches the question of automated transcripti…
Jenstad, Janelle, project dir. Map of Early Modern London. Other
Mapping Tribes
This article uses mixed digital methods to analyze a 1909/1910 Ottoman map of "tribal" territories in Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula that builds on existing Ottoman modes of depicting land and people to create a novel assertion of territoriality across the region. We analyze a digital artifact, created by joining the map to its companion informational table, to identify gaps and moments of uncertainty in the imperial knowledge-production process.…
Digital Spatial Practices and Linguistic Landscaping in Beirut
This article describes research done on language and script variation in the linguistic landscape (LL) of Beirut, Lebanon. It discusses how the cityscape itself became an archive for researchers and how digital humanities’ (DH) methods were used to capture and analyze patterns in written language found in public space. It also discusses the DH project, Linguistic Landscapes of Beirut (LLB) at the heart of this research and the benefits and challe…
Digital humanities practices and archival appraisal in the contemporary Arab world
Our paper explores ways in which contemporary scholarly practices in the digital humanities (DH) can utilize archival documents as “raw” material for analytical and digital storytelling purposes. We argue, on the one hand, that there is an interpretative potential in uncurated documents that DH practices can unlock, and on the other hand, that the archival appraisal process needs to be attentive to such scholarly reuse and the data/information va…
Metafiction Meets Migration
The subject of this article is Rabee Jaber’s novel Amerika (2009) recounting the migration of a group of Syro-Lebanese to the United States on the eve of the First World War. It demonstrates how metafictional techniques—ironic narrator figures, flashbacks, dream-like scenes—allow Jaber to address the fine, yet shifting, line between fiction and history in the accounts of Arab migrations to the Americas. The article explores the creative rewriting…
Locating Medieval French, or Why We Collect and Visualize the Geographic Information of Texts
This article focuses on geographic information contained in the body of medieval French texts composed over the period of the eleventh to the fifteenth century. By “geographic information” we mean textual references made to different kinds of place names at different scales within sustained prose or poetic narrative—landmarks, settlements, regions, and countries—real and imaginary. Collecting such geographic information across a large corpus of t…
Modeling the Transmission of al-Mubashshir Ibn Fātik’s Mukhtār al-Ḥikam in Medieval Europe
This article addresses the transmission of a mid-eleventh century Arabic compilation of Hellenic wisdom, al-Mubashshir Ibn Fātik’s Mukhtār al-Ḥikam wa-maḥāsin al-kalim , into medieval European languages. It documents new archival evidence for the scope of this textual tradition. The combination of digital textual and archival evidence provides important clues for building hypotheses for an expanded reception history of the Arabic text in Europe. …
Situating Islamdom in Jean Germain's Mappemonde Spirituelle (1449)
In this article, I examine the Mappemonde spirituelle (1449), a geographically organized compendium of Christian hagiography composed by Jean Germain, bishop of Chalon-sur-Saône and chancellor of Philip the Good's chivalric Order of the Golden Fleece. Germain's "spiritual" mappamundi portrays Christian history as constructed by the martyrdom of the saints. Far from excluding Muslims and other non-Christian peoples from this worldview, Germain's f…
Locating Medieval French, or Why We Collect and Visualize the Geographic Information of Texts
This article focuses on geographic information contained in the body of medieval French texts composed over the period of the eleventh to the fifteenth century. By “geographic information” we mean textual references made to different kinds of place names at different scales within sustained prose or poetic narrative—landmarks, settlements, regions, and countries—real and imaginary. Collecting such geographic information across a large corpus of t…
Situating Islamdom in Jean Germain's Mappemonde Spirituelle (1449)
In this article, I examine the Mappemonde spirituelle (1449), a geographically organized compendium of Christian hagiography composed by Jean Germain, bishop of Chalon-sur-Saône and chancellor of Philip the Good's chivalric Order of the Golden Fleece. Germain's "spiritual" mappamundi portrays Christian history as constructed by the martyrdom of the saints. Far from excluding Muslims and other non-Christian peoples from this worldview, Germain's f…
Modeling the Transmission of al-Mubashshir Ibn Fātik’s Mukhtār al-Ḥikam in Medieval Europe
This article addresses the transmission of a mid-eleventh century Arabic compilation of Hellenic wisdom, al-Mubashshir Ibn Fātik’s Mukhtār al-Ḥikam wa-maḥāsin al-kalim , into medieval European languages. It documents new archival evidence for the scope of this textual tradition. The combination of digital textual and archival evidence provides important clues for building hypotheses for an expanded reception history of the Arabic text in Europe. …
Metafiction Meets Migration
The subject of this article is Rabee Jaber’s novel Amerika (2009) recounting the migration of a group of Syro-Lebanese to the United States on the eve of the First World War. It demonstrates how metafictional techniques—ironic narrator figures, flashbacks, dream-like scenes—allow Jaber to address the fine, yet shifting, line between fiction and history in the accounts of Arab migrations to the Americas. The article explores the creative rewriting…
Locating Medieval French, or Why We Collect and Visualize the Geographic Information of Texts
This article focuses on geographic information contained in the body of medieval French texts composed over the period of the eleventh to the fifteenth century. By “geographic information” we mean textual references made to different kinds of place names at different scales within sustained prose or poetic narrative—landmarks, settlements, regions, and countries—real and imaginary. Collecting such geographic information across a large corpus of t…
Digital Spatial Practices and Linguistic Landscaping in Beirut
This article describes research done on language and script variation in the linguistic landscape (LL) of Beirut, Lebanon. It discusses how the cityscape itself became an archive for researchers and how digital humanities’ (DH) methods were used to capture and analyze patterns in written language found in public space. It also discusses the DH project, Linguistic Landscapes of Beirut (LLB) at the heart of this research and the benefits and challe…
Digital humanities practices and archival appraisal in the contemporary Arab world
Our paper explores ways in which contemporary scholarly practices in the digital humanities (DH) can utilize archival documents as “raw” material for analytical and digital storytelling purposes. We argue, on the one hand, that there is an interpretative potential in uncurated documents that DH practices can unlock, and on the other hand, that the archival appraisal process needs to be attentive to such scholarly reuse and the data/information va…
Automated Transcription of Non-Latin Script Periodicals
Our study discusses the automated transcription with deep learning methods of a digital newspaper collection printed in a historical language, Arabic-script Ottoman Turkish (OT), dating to the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century. We situate OT text collections within a larger history of digitization of periodicals, underscoring special challenges faced by Arabic script languages. Our paper approaches the question of automated transcripti…
Jenstad, Janelle, project dir. Map of Early Modern London. Other
Mapping Tribes
This article uses mixed digital methods to analyze a 1909/1910 Ottoman map of "tribal" territories in Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula that builds on existing Ottoman modes of depicting land and people to create a novel assertion of territoriality across the region. We analyze a digital artifact, created by joining the map to its companion informational table, to identify gaps and moments of uncertainty in the imperial knowledge-production process.…
Digital Humanities—Ways Forward; Future Challenges
Have digital tools and methods accelerated the rate of scholarly production over the last 20 years? If so, has this acceleration been beneficial for scholarship? This article considers examples of accelerated historical scholarship as well as calls for a “slow history.” Through an analysis of the author's own experiences with the digital humanities, it examines the advantages and disadvantages of digital technologies in the field of history. It c…
Computer Science (8 works) · History (8 works) · Art (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Digital Humanities and Scholarship (4 works) · History (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Digitization (3 works) · Geography (3 works)