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Ryan Cordell In the Media

Ryan Cordell for Northeastern

You step inside an old closet. It's 1896 again.

Letterpress printing, which began in the 15th century, uses raised letters and images made of metal type to imprint words and designs on paper. Northeastern students will now have the chance to learn the same craft in a new letterpress studio located at the Boston campus.
- by Greg St. Martin February 1, 2019
Rare book from Northeastern archives selected for ‘illuminated manuscripts’ display

A Dominican Prayer Book, created in the 15th century, from the Northeastern archives joins manuscripts spanning the 9th to the 17th centuries in “the largest exhibit of pre-1600 manuscripts ever mounted in North America.” Students in a “History of Books” class helped determine the date of the book’s creation, notes Giordana Mecagni, above, head of special collections at Northeastern.
- by Thea Singer November 15, 2016
Faculty’s summer assignment: prepare for the fall semester

Northeastern faculty members were hard at work this summer preparing to teach their fall courses. Here’s a look at some of the brand new courses they’ve developed and the work that goes into preparing for the new academic year.
- by Greg St. Martin September 9, 2016
Professor mines for historical memes

Ryan Cordell, an assistant professor of English and a digital humanities expert, is using a newly digitized corpora of historical texts, including newspapers, magazines, and novels, to identify the popular elements of 19th-century culture.
- by Angela Herring June 17, 2013
Researchers developing Boston Marathon digital archive

At Saturday’s #onerun event in Boston, a team of digital humanities researchers will showcase its project: Our Marathon, a comprehensive archive of materials that tell the story of the Boston Marathon bombings and the people affected.
- by Greg St. Martin May 24, 2013
Digital tools help uncover memes in literature

The sprawling cast of characters in the Irish novel Finnegans Wake compares to the meme culture that permeates the Internet today, according to research by English major Tom Murphy.
- by Matt Collette April 26, 2013

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