Join us for a Zoom talk on Tuesday, 3/9, at 4:00 by Dr. Caitlin Marley on digital humanities approaches to Classical literature. Marley will discuss her research on Marcus Tullius Cicero, in which she applies distant reading techniques to his corpus to gain a more complete view of this political figure in ancient Roman history. Marley will discuss the application of DH methods such as a stylometric analysis of Cicero’s entire corpus, a sentiment analysis of his orations, and a network analysis of his letters. She will also discuss Digital Cicero, where she has created interactive visualizations of the sentiment employed in Cicero’s speeches and Cicero’s networks of correspondents (http://bam.lib.uiowa.edu/digitalcicero/).

Caitlin A. Marley is an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Bowling Green State University. She is interested in Cicero (both his oratory and his letters), ancient emotions, text analysis, and Digital Humanities. In 2018, she successfully defended her dissertation titled Sentiments, Networks, Literary Biography: Towards a Mesoanalysis of Cicero’s Corpus and graduated with her PhD. In 2011, she received BA in Classics with a minor in Psychology from Wake Forest University. Follow her on Twitter @CaitlinAMarley.