Reviewed by Sarah Allison
Presiding
James F. English, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Panelists
Robin Valenza, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, “Enumerating and Visualizing Early English Print”
Ted Underwood, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, “The Imaginative Use of Numbers”
Mark McGurl, Stanford Univ., “Being and Time Management”
As its title suggests, this panel focused on a key problem in empirical method in literary studies: the translation of letters to numbers and back again.

Review by Alex Reid
Presiding
Mark Sample, George Mason University
Panelists
Douglas M. Armato, University of Minnesota Press
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, MLA
Frank Kelleter, University of Göttingen
Kirstyn Leuner, University of Colorado-Boulder
Jason Mittell, Middlebury College
Ted Underwood, University of Illinois-Urbana
This roundtable collectively addressed practices of social media in scholarly work, broadly defined as “serial scholarship.” Each speaker presented briefly and the session then turned toward conversation.