Christopher Warren
My research interests include digital humanities, law and literature, political theory, early modern literature, global studies, and the history of political thought.
Fundamentally, I’m fascinated by the histories that readers use to make sense of texts. When Thomas Hobbes in 1640 wrote, “Of our conceptions of the past, we make a future,” he formulated not just a key dimension of his distinctive human psychology but the exceptional stakes of our historical narratives. As a scholar of early modern literature and culture, my questions emerge from the ways disparate histories enable and disable certain kinds of analyses and futures. My first book, Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680 was published in 2015 by Oxford University Press. My collaborative digital humanities project Six Degrees of Francis Bacon, co-founded with Daniel Shore, is available at http://sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com/.
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Associate Professor of English
Literary and Cultural Studies
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave.
English Department
Baker-Porter Hall 259
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
USA
Fundamentally, I’m fascinated by the histories that readers use to make sense of texts. When Thomas Hobbes in 1640 wrote, “Of our conceptions of the past, we make a future,” he formulated not just a key dimension of his distinctive human psychology but the exceptional stakes of our historical narratives. As a scholar of early modern literature and culture, my questions emerge from the ways disparate histories enable and disable certain kinds of analyses and futures. My first book, Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680 was published in 2015 by Oxford University Press. My collaborative digital humanities project Six Degrees of Francis Bacon, co-founded with Daniel Shore, is available at http://sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com/.
Address: Christopher Warren
Associate Professor of English
Literary and Cultural Studies
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave.
English Department
Baker-Porter Hall 259
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
USA
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Books by Christopher Warren
Readership: Students and scholars of Renaissance literature; students and scholars with an interest in intellectual history and the history of political thought.
Peer-Reviewed Publications by Christopher Warren
history of the freedom of the press, and yet the pamphlet’s clandestine printers have successfully eluded identification for over 375 years. By examining distinctive and damaged type pieces from 100 pamphlets from the 1640s, this article attributes the printing of Milton’s Areopagitica to the London printers Matthew Simmons and Thomas
Paine, with the possible involvement of Gregory Dexter. It further reveals a sophisticated ideological program of clandestine printing executed collaboratively by Paine and Simmons throughout 1644 and 1645 that includes not only Milton’s Areopagitica but also Roger Williams’s The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, William Walwyn’s The Compassionate
Samaritane, Henry Robinson’s Liberty of Conscience, Robinson’s John the Baptist, and Milton’s Of Education, Tetrachordon, and Colasterion.
Here we examine the methodological considerations behind designing such interoperable ontologies, focusing primarily on the example of Early Modern historical networks. We argue that it would be infeasible to adopt a single ontological standard for all possible digital humanities projects; flexibility is essential to accommodate all subjects and objects of humanistic enquiry, from the micro-level to the longue-durée. However, we believe it possible to establish shared practices to structure these network ontologies on an ongoing basis in order to ensure their long-term interoperability.
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We describe in this paper the natural language processing tools and statistical graph learning techniques that we used to extract names and infer relations from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. We then explain the steps taken to test inferred relations against the knowledge of experts in order to improve the accuracy of the learning techniques. Our argument here is twofold: first, that the results of this process, a global visualization of Britain’s early modern social network, will be useful to scholars and students of the period; second, that the pipeline we have developed can, with local modifications, be reused by other scholars to generate networks for other historical or contemporary societies from biographical documents.
Papers by Christopher Warren
Readership: Students and scholars of Renaissance literature; students and scholars with an interest in intellectual history and the history of political thought.
history of the freedom of the press, and yet the pamphlet’s clandestine printers have successfully eluded identification for over 375 years. By examining distinctive and damaged type pieces from 100 pamphlets from the 1640s, this article attributes the printing of Milton’s Areopagitica to the London printers Matthew Simmons and Thomas
Paine, with the possible involvement of Gregory Dexter. It further reveals a sophisticated ideological program of clandestine printing executed collaboratively by Paine and Simmons throughout 1644 and 1645 that includes not only Milton’s Areopagitica but also Roger Williams’s The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, William Walwyn’s The Compassionate
Samaritane, Henry Robinson’s Liberty of Conscience, Robinson’s John the Baptist, and Milton’s Of Education, Tetrachordon, and Colasterion.
Here we examine the methodological considerations behind designing such interoperable ontologies, focusing primarily on the example of Early Modern historical networks. We argue that it would be infeasible to adopt a single ontological standard for all possible digital humanities projects; flexibility is essential to accommodate all subjects and objects of humanistic enquiry, from the micro-level to the longue-durée. However, we believe it possible to establish shared practices to structure these network ontologies on an ongoing basis in order to ensure their long-term interoperability.
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We describe in this paper the natural language processing tools and statistical graph learning techniques that we used to extract names and infer relations from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. We then explain the steps taken to test inferred relations against the knowledge of experts in order to improve the accuracy of the learning techniques. Our argument here is twofold: first, that the results of this process, a global visualization of Britain’s early modern social network, will be useful to scholars and students of the period; second, that the pipeline we have developed can, with local modifications, be reused by other scholars to generate networks for other historical or contemporary societies from biographical documents.