Projects

Middlemarch Critical Histories Project

A study of literary critical quotations in thousands of articles, detected by using an algorithm on a corpus of JSTOR-held articles (published 1950-2015) on George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1872). Co-authored with Jonathan Reeve (Columbia University) and Milan Terlunen (Columbia University).

Victorian Metadata: Reading the Review Column, 1866-1900

This project examines the literary history of information search and retrieval by using computer-assisted methods to analyze the subject headings of nineteenth-century literary review columns.

The Shape of Time

A study that examines temporal language in fiction by using machine learning to trace word clustering patterns in a corpus of 200 canonical nineteenth-century novels. In collaboration with Allison Chaney (Princeton University).