Brad Pasanek

(2008)
Assistant Professor
Eighteenth-Century Literature, Digital Humanities


Degrees

Ph.D. Stanford University, 2006
B.A. University of Chicago, 1997

Books

Eighteenth-Century Metaphors of Mind: A Dictionary (in progress)

Publications

  • Editor (with Simone Polillo) special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy, Vol. 4, No. 3, August 2011
  • "Meaning and Mining: The Impact of Implicit Assumptions in Data-Mining for the Humanities" (co-authored with D. Sculley, Google Pittsburgh). Literary and Linguistic Computing. (2008) 23:4. 409-424.
  • "Mining Millions of Metaphors" (co-authored with D. Sculley). Literary and Linguistic Computing. (2008) 23:3. 345-360.
  • Review of Emily Hodgson Anderson’s "Mansfield Park and the ‘Womanly Style’ in Fiction," UCLA Center for the Study of Women Newsletter, 2007

Web Sites

Conferences and Presentations

  • “Two Dualisms,” Philosophical Questions, Literary Answers Conference, May of 2011
  • “Hume’s Metaphors,” ASECS Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, March of 2011
  • “Desultory Reading,” UVa 18th-Century Working Group, February of 2011
  • “New and Renewed Work in Digital Literary Studies: An Electronic Roundtable,” Los Angeles, MLA 2011
  • "This is Enlightenment,” ASECS meeting in Albuquerque, NM, March of 2010  
  • “Metaphorical Evidence,” Burdens of Proof Conference, UVA Law School, February 2010
  • Coorganizer, with Simone Polillo, Beyond Liquidity: A Conference on Money and Metaphors, UVA, October of 2009
  • “A Dictionary, a Database, a Desultory Reader: Metaphors for the Mind in Eighteenth-Century Literature,” Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, October of 2009
  • “Ideology and Metaphor,” Kellogg School of Management, September of 2009
  • “Bigrams,” UVA New Horizons Conference, April 29, 2009
  • “Poetic Diction: Tokens and Change,” ASECS meeting, Richmond, VA, March 26, 2009
  • “Digital Futures: Encoding the Eighteenth Century,” ASECS, Richmond
  • “Finding Money,” Sponsored by ASECS Graduate Student Caucus, ASECS, Richmond
  • “Personhood, Personal Identity, and Personification,” GEMCS meeting, Philadelphia, Nov 22, 2008
  • “A Study of Parody: Literary Criticism and Machine Learning,” (co- authored with D. Sculley) Chicago Digital Humanities Colloquium, Nov 2, 2008
  • “Personhood, Personal Identity, and Personification,” to be presented at GEMCS, Philadelphia, 2008
  • Panel chair, “The Global Eighteenth Century,” ASECS meeting in Portland, 2008
  • “At the Speed of Thought: Movement and Metaphor in Eighteenth- Century Literature,” presented at ASECS meeting in Portland, 2008
  • “Mining Millions of Metaphors,” MLA conference in Chicago, 2007
  • “Mining and Meaning: Eighteenth-Century Metaphors of Mind,” University of Chicago Digital Humanities Series, October of 2007
  • “Feeding Derrida to the Classifiers,” (co-authored with D. Sculley, Computer Science Department, Tufts University), Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, Northwestern University, October of 2007
  • “Meaning and Mining: The Impact of Implicit Assumptions in Data Mining for the Humanities” (co-authored with D. Sculley), Digital Humanities Conference, Urbana-Champaign, June of 2007
  • “Structures of Belief: Gender, Nation, Party and Metaphor in Eighteenth-Century Literature” (co-authored with D. Sculley), Mellon Workshop, Tufts University, May of 2007
  • “Metaphor Clusters: Whigs, Tories, Jacobites, and Radicals,” presented at Beyond Search, a Mellon-funded Stanford Humanities Center Workshop, April of 2007
  • Panel respondent, “Physical Education in the Eighteenth Century,” ASECS meeting in Atlanta, 2007

Honors

  • University of Virginia Teaching Fellowship, 2010-2011
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg Center for Communication, University of Southern California, 2006-2007
  • Dissertation awarded the Alden Prize for most distinguished dissertation in the Department of English, 2006
  • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, 2005-2006
  • Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellowship, 2004-2005
  • Doctoral Fellowship, English Department, Stanford University, 2000-2004
  • Undergraduate thesis awarded the David Blair McLaughlin Prize for Creative Writing, 1997

Professional Activity

Associate Director, 18thConnect