Pierce Williams

My latest, courtesy of @18CTANDI: “Saved by God's "Grease": The Pathology of Political Bodies in Smollett's Humphry Clinker” muse.jhu.edu/article/728687

In our #acl2020nlp paper, we propose a generative model to analyze glyph shapes in early-modern printing. The interpretable variables account for spatial noise while the neurally parametrized uninterpretable latent variable explains other variation. arxiv.org/abs/2005.01646 1/6

automatically detecting two distinct fonts in the mysterious “25 Ornaments” edition of Hobbes’ Leviathan

We recently announced the groundbreaking work @ChrisVVarren and his team (including former CPNP asst. director Pierce Williams [@star_captain1]) had done, identifying the printer of John Milton's "Areopagitica." It has now been published in Milton Studies! #metadata_info_tab_contents" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">www-jstor-org.proxy.library.cmu.edu/stable/10.5325…

@johnrladd haha this is why i can’t have nice things

Hot off the press: the Print and Probability team's identification of who printed Milton's Areopagitica is now online, in print, and OPEN SOURCE. Many thanks to Milton Studies from @ChrisVVarren, @shrutirij, Max G'Sell and @star_captain1: #metadata_info_tab_contents" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">jstor.org/stable/10.5325…

Over here at the Print & Probability project, we were so excited to see Claire McGann’s (@claireAMcGann) recent article on typographic features in the @bodleianlibs 1659 volume of Anna Trapnel’s prophecies tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… [thread]

This is not a bookmark.

Uncovering the printers who bravely produced Milton’s ‘Areopagitica,’ arguing for freedom of speech: ow.ly/36oD30pVX9F

The old woman I’m cat sitting for has her mugshot framed. What a boss bitch.

For @English_CMU seminar CSI: Underground Books & Printing (bit.ly/33NN5HF), I’m compiling a list of letterpress whodunnits. What would you say are the most urgent examples of ESTC-era clandestine/anonymously/pseudonymously printed books, pamphlets, etc?

@18CTANDI Thanks for the shout out here. I’m thrilled to be in such good company!

In ECTI, Pierce Williams (@star_captain1) turns to the pathology of political bodies in Smollett’s Humphry Clinker and its “distinctly materialist imagining of Britain’s artificial man." Read "Saved by God's 'Grease'" here! muse.jhu.edu/article/728687

The new issue of @18CTANDI is out! This issue has exciting scholarship about Defoe, Smollett, Celebrity, and Succession, as well as reviews of recent books on Samuel Auguste Tissot, Experimental Philosophy, and Jonathan Swift. (link: muse.jhu.edu/issue/40606)

@SusanGrunewald1 @EJDamelio i hear the husk smells like farts, despite whatever the meat tastes like. this is perhaps why the hate. can’t confirm

@EJDamelio I don't get why it is despised. I had some in Thailand and it was delicious.

Pavel Drábek (Theater, University of Hull) will lecture on transnational theater and early modern "patchwork" plays on March 11th @ 4:30. Mark your calendars!

Chris Nygren, Assistant Professor of Art History and the director of Pitt’s MedRen program, will discuss the signifying power of painted stones in his talk, “Matter and Similitude in Italian Painting and the Transatlantic Renaissance” tomorrow at 4:30 (Baker Hall 255B, CMU).

Christ Nygren (Art History, Pitt) will discuss "matter and similitude in Italian painting" on Feb. 6th @4:30. We hope to see you there!