Experimental Joyce Projects
Experimental Scholarship Projects
These experimental scholarship projects are designed to explore Joyce studies through new digital and interpretive approaches.
Ask Gabriel(tm) — The first project is a demonstration of a research-focused AI interface designed to assist students and scholars in exploring literary topics. Unlike general-purpose AI systems, Ask Gabriel is configured to support research, brainstorming, and discovery while preventing the generation of essays, articles, and academic papers for academic submission.
Literary Oscilloscope(tm) — The second project, the Literary Oscilloscope™, applies the metaphor of the technical oscilloscope to literary analysis. Drawing upon concepts from cybernetics and signal theory, it visualizes patterns of silence, spectrality, memory, revelation, and narrative impedance as interpretive signals within a text. The tool is intended as a heuristic aid for close reading and comparative analysis rather than as a scientific instrument.
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Preserving the Work of Scholarship
I started the Ask Gabriel project to explore how one can place a UX wrapper over an AI instance that enables research, yet does not allow the AI or LLM to generate essays or other packaged content. Leveraging the idea of the nudge in the right direction, this wrapper encourages students to explore AI without having it do the work for them.
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Modeling Narrative Events
Literary Oscilloscope (tm)
The Literary Oscilloscope arose from my proposal on silence and the supernatural for the University of Glasgow. I wanted to model certain narrative events as signals using the metaphor of the oscilloscope. The image shows narrative elements as waveforms and is a cropped version of the overall image.
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