First Steps

This blog has been created with two simple purposes in mind. First, to keep a record of my missteps and small successes as I pursue projects under the rubric of digital humanities 2.0. Second, to serve as a space to introduce and reflect on some of the ways that our appreciation of literature and literary history might benefit from the careful (and always tentative) application of quantitative methods. My specialization in modern Japanese literature will naturally skew these objectives toward certain kinds of content, but my hope is that the methodologies on display here will be of general interest to those in other fields as well.