Brad Pasanek
Mayo NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor
427 Bryan Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 3:30 to 5pm, and by appointment.
All availabilities at http://pasanek.youcanbook.me/
Class Schedule: TuTh 11-12:15 and 2-3:15
Specialties:
18th C British, Digital Humanities, Restoration
Degrees
Ph.D. Stanford University, 2006
B.A. University of Chicago, 1997
B.A. University of Chicago, 1997
Books
Metaphors of Mind: An Eighteenth-Century Dictionary, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015
Reviews: The British Society for Literature and Science (January 2016); New Criterion (January 2016); Choice (February 2016); Los Angeles Review of Books (March 2016); Eighteenth Century Studies (Summer 2016); SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 (Summer 2016); Modern Philology (August 2016); TLS (December 2016), Ariel (January 2017), Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Summer 2017), The Scriblerian (Autumn 2017), Eighteenth-Century Life (January, 2018)
Publications
- "Extreme Reading: Josephine Miles and the Scale of the Pre-Digital Digital Humanities," ELH 86:2 (Summer 2019): 355-385.
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"Enlightenment, Some Assembly Required," essay co-authored with Chad Wellmon, The Eighteenth Centuries (book chapter, U.Va. Press, 2018).
- "The Enlightenment Index," co-authored with Chad Wellmon, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 56:3 (Fall, 2015): 359-382.
- People of the Book Interview Series. Interviewed by Gretchen E. Henderson. Ploughshares (January 27, 2014).
- "This is Not a Book: Thomas Jefferson & Apple's App Store," co-authored with John O'Brien, Chronicle of Higher Education (September 4, 2013).
- Guest editor, with Simone Polillo, of a special journal volume on money and metaphors: Journal of Cultural Economy 4:3 (August 2011). Republished as Beyond Liquidity: The Metaphor of Money in Financial Crisis (Routledge, 2013).
- "Meaning and Mining: The Impact of Implicit Assumptions in Data-Mining for the Humanities" (co-authored with D. Sculley, Computer Science Department, Tufts University), Literary and Linguistic Computing 23:4 (2008): 409-424.
- "Mining Millions of Metaphors" (co-authored with D. Sculley), Literary and Linguistic Computing 23:3 (2008): 345-360.
- A review of Emily Hodgson Anderson’s "Mansfield Park and the 'Womanly Style' in Fiction" was published in the March newsletter of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, 2007.
Digital Projects
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Web app, a digital variorum edition of Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia. Newly transcribed and annotated, edited with John O’Brien and Virginia Anne Kinniburgh. http://jefferson-notes.herokuapp.com
- "The Mind is a Metaphor" database
- Hands On Literature
- 18thConnect
Recent Conferences and Presentations
- Puzzle Poetry Poster, with Neal Curtis, ASECS Meeting, Denver, March of 2019
- “Josephine Miles’s Hand Counts,” Interacting with Print Workshop, Montreal, March of 2019
- Conference Organizer: Puzzles, Bots and Poetry, UVA, October of 2019
- “The Poets are Cases, the Words are Variables,” Irrationality and the Contemporary Conference, U.Va., May of 2018
- “Samuel Johnson and the Study of Philosophy,” Annual Meeting of the Johnson Society, Central Region, University of Chicago, April of 2018
- Panel Respondent: “Metaphor and Metonymy,” ASECS Meeting, Orlando, March of 2018
- "Puzzle Poetry," Becoming Media, Conference 2: Practices, UCLA, February of 2018
- "Extreme Reading: The Case of Josephine Miles," English Institute, UC Irvine, October of 2017
- "Ten Low Words (or Fewer), Millions of Dull Lines", Historical Poetics Symposium, Connecticut College, November of 2017
- "Heaps of Heaps: Accumulating Verse," Indiana Eighteenth-Century Workshop, May of 2017
- "Reading Like a Loser," ASECS Meeting, Minneapolis, March of 2017
- "The Dramatic Rise of Free Indirect Discourse," Rethinking the Rise of Fictionality, UCLA, February of 2017
- “Josephine Miles and the Pre-Digital Digital Humanities,” Early Modern Digital Agenda Meeting, Folger Library, May of 2016.
- “How Soliloquy Became Thinkable,” Novel Knowledge, Stanford University, May of 2016.
- “‘Various pieces inlaid’: Poetry as Marquetry,” ASECS Meeting, Pittsburgh, March of 2016.
- Book Discussion: "Metaphors of Mind," Columbia University, Eighteenth Century Colloquium, March of 2016.
Honors
- Mayo NEH Teaching Professorship, 2019-2022
- NEH Institute, Early Modern Digital Agendas: Advanced Topics (June, 2015)
- Moore Institute, Visiting Fellow in the Digital Humanities (May and June, 2015)
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IATH Associate Fellowship, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016
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Teaching award from the O.W.L. Society, for "distinguished teaching of the written word at the University of Virginia," 2014
- University of Virginia Teaching Fellowship, 2010-2011
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg Center for Communication, University of Southern California, 2006-2007
Professional Activity
- Princeton Prosody Archive, Advisory Board
- MLA Discussion Group on Computer Studies (serving 2009-2015)
