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Co-led by Rubin-Detlev and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk\/people\/andrew-kahn\">Professor Andrew Kahn<\/a>, the CatCor project aims to unite in a single database the letters of Empress Catherine the Great of Russia (1762-1796), whose extensive, multilingual correspondence presents unique challenges and opportunities for digital research. The NEH grant will allow CatCor to develop new solutions for coding, editing, and machine-translating Catherine\u2019s texts, which are written in an idiosyncratic mix of early modern, non-standard versions of French, Russian, and German. By mapping the exceptionally broad range of people, places, and events discussed in the letters and constructing a new analysis platform to explore them, this phase of the project will also generate a knowledge graph of Catherine\u2019s world, thereby enriching our understanding of Russian imperial history and the global Enlightenment.<\/p>\n<p><em>Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this project do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                        \n                            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/sll\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-27-at-23.09.25-768x432.png\"\n          srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/sll\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-27-at-23.09.25-1280x720.png 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/sll\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-27-at-23.09.25-768x432.png 768w\"          sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 23vw, (min-width:768px) 39vw, 83vw\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Image from CatCor\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          Dr. Chloe Papadopoulos\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <div><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/chloe-papadopoulos-2\/\">Dr. Papadopoulos<\/a> studies 19th-century Russian literature and visual culture. Her current research considers why the medieval past occupied such a prominent place in the cultural imaginary during an exceptionally modern historical moment \u2013 the Great Reforms. She is also a specialist in Dostoevsky studies and has developed a portfolio of research projects that consider Dostoevsky\u2019s work outside of traditional Russian literary perspectives. 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