About Ciphers of The Times

Ciphers of The Times is funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant that investigates the Agony Column of The Times and its influence on Victorian society and literature. Using an interdisciplinary methodology of computational analysis and close reading we seek to interrogate and expand existing understandings of how the newspaper featured in and informed the composition of and reader responses to Victorian novels.

This site is part of a joint physical-virtual exhibition, “News and Novel Sensations,” curated in conjunction with the McGill Library from January-March 2023.

Acknowledgements

• Nathalie Cooke (Principal Investigator)
• Ronny Litvack-Katzman (Project Lead)

Research Team:

• Leehu Sigler (Python Coding)
• Bianca Tri (Research Assistance and Graphics)
• Rosalia Poplawski (Research Assistance)

Exhibition:

• Greg Houston (Digitization and Digital Curation)
• Sam Pappas (Research Assistance)
• Lillian Simons (Website and Twine Game Design)
• Octavian Sopt (Exhibition Installation)
• Jacquelyn Sundberg (Outreach Librarian, Curatorial and Design Consultant)

Library Communications:

• Lauren Goldman
• Merika Ramundo