Jerome McGann (2014, 210) has referred to the Sachphilologie of 19th-century scholars like August

Boeckh as “object-oriented philology.” In the world of computer programming, though, “objectoriented”

has its own technical meaning, namely the practice of formalizing sequences of code in such

a way as to promote the separation of functionality within programs and ensure that code is modular

and reusable. In this paper, I discuss the Classical Language Toolkit, an open-source platform dedicated

This paper offers a new theoretical framework for intertextuality in light of the systematic computational profiling of literary corpora and biological organisms. These methods enable increased differentiation of entities by examining minute differences in their constituent parts. We leverage a philosophical idea - the Ship of Theseus paradox - in order to recast intertextual relationships, especially those multiplied by means of digital tools, as modes of identity persistence.

An early hero of interdisciplinary scholarship, D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948) was a biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar who believed “the fertile field of discovery lies for the most part on those borderlands where one science meets another”(Jarron and Cauldwell, 2010: 36). Thompson’s masterful Glossary of Greek Birds(1895 and 1936, see also Arnott 2007) bears the mark of his research in ornithology as well as his immense learning in Greek, Latin, and mythology.

Philology and the Future of Work

This paper describes how the methods of digital philology reconnects the study of

Greco-Roman culture with the developments not only in the Humanities but Computer Science

and even business. We are in a position to design programs in philology that train not only the

next generation of professionals who teach and study historical languages such as Greek and

Latin but that also produce students who have a wide range of professional opportunities

Reconnecting the Classics: The Vocation and the Vocations in the 21st Century

This talk will present thoughts on reconnecting undergraduate Classics education with the realms of commerce and industry through a curriculum that puts modern information technology and computational approaches to philology at its center. This would not be the first time we will have radically rethought the discipline and our pedagogical approaches to it.