publications

book

The Connected Condition: Romanticism and the Dream of Communication, Stanford University Press, Text Technologies series, 2020

I talk a little bit about the book here.

articles and book chapters

“Literary Data” in The Cambridge Companion to Literature in a Digital Age, ed. Adam Hammond, 2024

With Almas Abdibayev, Allen Riddell, and Daniel Rockmore, “Limericks and Computational Poetics: The Minimal Pairs Framework,” Journal of Computational Literary Studies 1.1, 2022

“Shelley amid the Age of Separations: Romantic Sociology and Romantic Media Theory” in Multi-Media Romanticisms, eds. James Brooke-Smith and Andrew Burkett, Romantic Circles Praxis, 2016

“Statistical Analysis at the Birth of Close Reading,” New Literary History, 46.3, 2015

“Keats’s Ways: The Dark Passages of Mediation and Why He Gives Up Hyperion,” Studies in Romanticism, 53.2, 2014. Awarded the Keats-Shelley Association of America Essay Prize for 2015

edited journal issue

Special Issue on “Romanticism and Data,” The Wordsworth Circle 53.3, Summer 2022

papers, conference proceedings, and other essays

“Afterword: Shared Data, Personal Data,” The Wordsworth Circle 53.3, 2022

With Almas Abdibayev, Allen Riddell, and Daniel Rockmore, “Automating the Detection of Poetic Features: The Limerick as Model Organism,” Proceedings of the SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature, 2021

“The Cliché Writes Back: Machine Writing is Closer to Literature’s History Than You Know,” Aeon, 2021

With Allen Riddell, “Varieties of Plain Language,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, 2021

With Allen Riddell, “Toward a Bibliometric History of Romantic Studies,” Keats-Shelley Journal, 2019

book reviews

Alan Liu, Friending the Past: The Sense of History in the Digital Age (2018), in The Wordsworth Circle 50.4, 2019

Michael Gamer, Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry (2017), in Modern Philology 116.1, 2018

Media, Technology, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century: Image, Sound, Touch (2011), eds. Colette Colligan and Margaret Linley, in Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 63, 2013