- Director, CoDHR
- Professor
- Phone: (979) 845-8345
- Email: mandell@tamu.edu
- Office: LAAH 440
- Document: CV
Research Areas
- Digital Humanities
- 18th Century Literature
- British Romanticism
Research Interests
- Digital Editions
- Feminist Theory
- Book History
- Women Poets of the long 18th-century
- Digital Research Methods
Research Areas
- Digital Humanities
- 18th Century Literature
- British Romanticism
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Cornell University, 1992
- M.A., Cornell University, 1991
- B.A., University of New Mexico, 1986
Awards & Honors
- Fellow at the University of California Humanities Research Institute, Residential Research Group, “The Limits of the Numerical: Metrics and the Humanities in Higher Education,” 2018.
- Presidential Impact Fellow, 2017-2020. Texas A&M University.
- “OCR’ing Early Modern Text,” with Richard Furuta and Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna, Mellon Foundation Grant for $734,000 awarded September 26, 2012 for 2012-2014.
- NINES Fellow, University of Virginia, March 2010.
- CELT Teaching Excellence Award, Miami University, Fall 2002.
- CORST (The Committee on Research and Special Training, a subcommittee of the American Psychoanalytic Society) Paper Prize, awarded December, 1999, for “Melancholia’s Cure, or Resurrection by Poetry.”
Selected Publications
Mandell, Laura. Breaking the Book: Print Humanities in the Digital Age. Wiley-Blackwell, 2015
Breaking the Book is a manifesto on the cognitive consequences and emotional effects of human interactions with physical books that reveals why the traditional humanities disciplines are resistant to ‘digital’ humanities. *Explores the reasons why the traditional humanities disciplines are resistant to ‘digital humanities’ *Reveals facets of book history, offering it as an example of how different media shape our modes of thinking and feeling *Gathers together the most important book history and literary criticism concerning the hundred years leading up to the early 19th-century emergence of mass print culture