About

Wine Dark Sea was the research blog of Michael Witmore, a literary scholar and former director of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Posts deal with the computational study of literature, covering a period that included Witmore's ongoing collaboration with Jonathan Hope. The blog also captures important work by Eric Alexander, Anupam Basu, Mattie Burkert, Heather Froehlich, Mike Gleicher, Alan Hogarth, Victor Lenthe, Emma Pallant, Julie Park, Beth Ralston, Mike Stumpf, Robin Valenza, and Jason Whitt. The site is now a curated archive.

Witmore created, owned, and maintained the site. The blog was a working notebook for methods and results that later appeared in articles and books, including documentation of Visualizing English Print and related student projects.

Permalinks of the form /p/<id>/ (and legacy /?p=<id>) are preserved. Category and tag indexes from the old WordPress install are not rebuilt. Use Essentials, Collections, the Glossary, and the full archive instead.

New public writing may appear elsewhere. This domain remains the home of the historical record. For current work and contact, see michaelwitmore.com.

See also Using this site, Glossary, and Publications.