Events Schedule
Character Reference: A Structural and Computational Approach to Literary Character
- Time
- 1pm - 2.30pm
- Date
- 13 Apr 2026
- Duration
- 90 minute(s)
- Location
- O'Rahilly Building, G27
- Language
- English
- Presenters
Professor Sharon Marcus
Organisers: Professor Claire Connolly, Dr Máirín MacCarron and Dr James O’Sullivan
- Category
- Seminar
- Cost
- Free
- Registration Required
- No
- Organising Department
School of English and Digital Humanities
The first part of the talk will situate the model within theories of character and discuss the interpretive stakes of the model, using Pride and Prejudice as a key example. The second part of the talk will present collaborative work undertaken with Kathleen McKeown, Nora Shaalan, Melanie Subbiah, and Haaris Mian to undertake computational analyses of entire novels using this model (using LLMs and a customized version of BookNLP).
Sharon Marcus is Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia and the author of such landmark studies as Between Women, the co-author of the influential Representations essay on ’Surface Reading’, and the founding editor of Public Books.