About
American studies, nineteenth-century American literature, twentieth-century American literature, autobiography, literary theory, digital humanities, intellectual history, computational science, science and literature Education
- Ph.D (English, Indiana University)
- A.M (University of Chicago)
- B.A (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Work Shared in CORE
Books
Articles
Syllabi
Other Publications
- with Rena J. Mosteirin, Moonbit (punctum books, 2019)
- Critical Digital Humanities: The Search for a Methodology (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2019)
- Modernity and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America: Literary Representations of Communication and Transportation Technologies (Palgrave, 2017)
- “Interpretable Outputs: Criteria for Machine Learning in the Humanities,” DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly 15, no. 2 (2021).
- “The Narratives of the Later Lives of Frederick Douglass: Old-Age Autobiography Before Senescence.” Common-place 17, no. 2 (2017).
- “Knowing and Narration: Shirley Jackson and the Campus Novel.” In Shirley Jackson: Influences and Confluences, edited by Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kröger, 123-141. New York: Routledge, 2016.
- “Lucy Larcom and the Time of the Temporal Collapse” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 33, no. 1 (2016): 82-102.
- Can An Algorithm Be Disturbed?: Machine Learning, Intrinsic Criticism, and the Digital Humanities College Literature 42, no.4 (2015): 543- 564.
- Bits of Autobiography: Radical Deindividualization and Everydayness Arizona Quarterly 71, no. 1 (2015): 83-99.
- “What does the ‘Temporal Turn’ Mean for Autobiography? Mark Twain, Memory, and the Failures of Historicism.”The Mark Twain Annual 11 (Fall 2013): 62-76.
Memberships
- MLA
- C19
- Mark Twain Circle of America