Vigiletti, Elyse | Faculty

Dr. Vigiletti has been a lecturer in the Program in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan since 2018. Her training is in literature and print culture; her PhD work developed a methodology for middle-distance reading, which combines digital humanities distant reading methods like LDA topic modeling with traditional close reading to offer a balanced view of literary texts — particularly those categorized as middlebrow, masscult, or midcult — situated in twentieth-century American literary-historical context. She also has a professional background in academic publishing, including experience as a managing editor, freelance copyeditor, and freelance dissertation doctor for graduate students and junior faculty across disciplines.

 

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