Reading the past with digital tools.

Teaching projects and literary research shaped by close reading, computational inquiry, and the history of technology.

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William Blake's Newton, seated on a rock and measuring with a compass
William Blake, Newton, 1795–c. 1805

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Romantic Literature Corpus

A searchable literary archive

Browse and search a growing collection of Romantic poetry, fiction, essays, letters, and journals. Move from patterns across the corpus to the language of individual passages.

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William Blake in word and image

Read Blake’s texts, then move through illuminated pages, visionary works, and the late watercolors for Dante.

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Romantic Author Atlas

Explore documented places in nineteen writers’ lives through zoomable street, terrain, and selected historical maps.

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Open-access digital archive

Artifacts of Capitalism

Texts, objects, images, and material traces illuminate how people experienced wealth, labor, commerce, leisure, debt, risk, and inequality in the premodern world.

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Latest writing

Essay · August 29, 2026

Building Better (Free) Literary Maps for Undergraduates

Why should students study maps? How can AI tools help create better maps?

About

Anthony Brano is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing at Georgian Court University.

He serves as Georgian Court’s first Writing Center Director. His teaching and research bring together literary history, writing, and public-facing digital humanities. Georgian Court faculty profile