Rebecca Sutton Koeser

Bio

Rebecca Sutton Koeser is the Lead Research Software Engineer at the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University and has served as Technical Lead on Shakespeare and Company Project, as well as Princeton Geniza Project, Princeton Prosody Archive, and others. She has a PhD in English Literature from Emory University and her research interests include data physicalization, critical perspectives on software development for humanities research, and speculative and computational approaches to missing data. On Twitter as @suttonkoeser.

Contributions

Missing Data, Speculative Reading

Peer Reviewed

Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company, once a hub for the Lost Generation, has become iconic in popular culture. [1] The continued cultural prominence of the bookshop and lending library is no accident. Beach knew that publishing James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) would make Shakespeare and Company famous. Her memoir, published in 1959, is an exercise in name-dropping. She celebrates her relationships with writers, from Joyce to Gertrude Stein, and from Ernest Hemingway to Richard Wright. And...

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