My research uses computational methods to explore the cultural function of poetry within Victorian print culture. My current book project, Distant Reading Nineteenth-Century Poetry, applies machine learning to uncover the stylistic conventions that structured the market for poetry in the nineteenth century. I am also a Co-Director and Technical Director for the Periodical Poetry Index, a bibliographic research database for poems published in nineteenth-century periodicals.
Recent Publications
“Re:Search Technologies: A Counterfactual Exploration of The Wellesley Index.” Victorian Periodicals Review 54.2 (Summer 2021): 304-326.
“Exploring the Idiom of Victorian Rhyme Through Applied Historical Poetics.” In Plotting Poetry: on Mechanically-Enhanced Reading. Ed. Anne-Sophie Bories, Gérald Purnelle, and Hugues Marchal. Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2021. 41-55.
“Modeling the Poem on the Page: Encoding the Database Schema for the Periodical Poetry Index.” Victorian Periodicals Review 52.3 (Fall 2019): 626-35.
“Distant Reading and Victorian Women’s Poetry.” In The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women’s Poetry. Ed. Linda K. Hughes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 249-65.
“Reading the Visual Page in the Digital Archive.” In Research Methods for Reading Digital Data in the Digital Humanities. Ed. Gabriele Griffin and Matthew Hayler. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. 36-50.