The document discusses the integration of GIS mapping in analyzing the biography of author Jean Rhys within a humanities classroom context. It highlights the use of the Edinburgh Geoparser and QGIS software for visualizing spatial references in the text, emphasizing the role of space in literary analysis. The author acknowledges collaborators and resources in the process of creating the project.

1. Mapping Narrative
QGIS in the Humanities Classroom
Anouk Lang
Department of English, University of Edinburgh
anouk.lang@ed.ac.uk | @a_e_lang

2. The context: build a GIS of the places mentioned in a biography of Jean Rhys
and use this to analyse the role played by space in the text

3. Geoparsing with the Edinburgh Geoparser
(with thanks to
Claire Grover for
writing me a custom
XSLT stylesheet)

4. Data preparation: distinguishing between places elsewhere and places experienced

5. Reflecting on the use of spatial
references in the Rhys biography

6. Visualisation as gratification

7. Process and
pedagogy

9. Anouk Lang | aelang.net
@a_e_lang | anouk.lang@ed.ac.uk
Many thanks to Tom Armitage and Ian Holmes
Credits:
The Edinburgh Geoparser
www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/software/geoparser/
QGIS www.qgis.org
Cartography © OpenStreetMap contributors
www.openstreetmap.org/copyright