Prof Michaela Mahlberg
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Prof Michaela Mahlberg
@michamahlberg.bsky.social
Corpus Linguist, Discourse Analyst, Victorianist, Climate Science & Climate Discourse, Host of the Life & Language podcast, President of the Dickens Society

https://michaelamahlberg.com/
Now @nfdykes.bsky.social is setting out to make connections between close & distant reading
#DHSS2025
@rc21project.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
“The true value of #corpuslinguistics is the combination of quantitative scale & qualitative depth”
@gavinbrookes.bsky.social gave us so much to think about this morning
#DHSS2025
September 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Beginning Day#3 with a keynote by the amazing @gavinbrookes.bsky.social
#DHSS2025
@dhssfau.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Now our participants are getting ready to design their own visual abstracts - all happening at #DHSS2025 with @ismailbarakat.bsky.social
@dhssfau.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Outdoor office for this afternoon @ruhr-uni-bochum.de #esslli2025
August 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Day#2 at #esslli2025 @ruhr-uni-bochum.de More of our #ReadingConcordances training course: here @schtepf.bsky.social introducing #CQPweb
August 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Now on: @gongdonkey.bsky.social reading Bleak House as Dickens dealing with the aftermath of modernity and the cost of progress
#Dickenssociety2025
July 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Now on: @lydiacraig.bsky.social talking about Charles Dickens‘s sins -
and secret messages in poetry
#DickensSociety2025
July 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Dickens Society Presidents:
past, present & future 🙂

#DickensSociety2025
@gongdonkey.bsky.social @drchrislouttit.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
In her talk on Dickens, Physiognomy, and the Dirty-Faced Figure, the brilliant Lillian Nayder looks at the distribution of the word dirty-faced across texts.

Dirt on the face can become part of the embodied self.

#DickensSociety2025
July 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Now @drchrislouttit.bsky.social looking at the Neo-Victorian Twists and Turns of The Artful Dodger (2023)
#DickensSociety2025
#Artfuldodger
July 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
From Mud to Make-up - Ben Moore looking at Bleak House and at The Bondwoman‘s Narrative by Hannah Crafts
#DickensSociety2025
July 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Now @aa42.bsky.social is sharing his experience as a data scientist using the beginning of A Tale of Two Cities to teach human ecology - and how to look at data in a nuanced way
#DickensSociety2025

Dickens is more relevant than ever 👇
July 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
At #DickensSociety2025 Joel Brattin is telling us about the challenges of choosing a copytext for A Tale of Two Cities
July 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
At the Dickens Dinner the wonderful Natalie McKnight received the Diana Archibald award for service 🎉
Here with Diana & @drchrislouttit.bsky.social
#DickensSociety2025
@dickenssociety.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Leslie Simon raising interesting questions about how to measure story time to find out why we tend to forget endings of novels rather than their beginnings - All happening at #DickensSociety2025 @dickenssociety.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Now: James Armstrong on Dirt and Discomfort - Theatrical audiences in Dickens #DickensSociety2025 @dickenssociety.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
And here are the fragrance cards to go with the talk
July 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Dickens was very interested in perfumes
July 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Now Clair Schwarz on The Dickens Fragrance Collection #DickensSociety2025 @dickenssociety.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
First up: Jennifer Heine on Dickens & Wax-Works @dickenssociety.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Off we go! Natalie McKnight and @drchrislouttit.bsky.social opening this year‘s @dickenssociety.bsky.social Symposium in Boston
July 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
July 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Marc Kupietz from @idsmannheim.bsky.social illustrating how you can improve your corpus tools documentation through prompting strategies
July 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Starting the 2nd day of #futurecorp2040
Silvia Bernardini asking what makes #corpuslinguistics special & urging us to go beyond multilingualism @idsmannheim.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 8:32 AM