My research uses computational methods to explore the cultural function of poetry within Victorian print culture. I am currently writing a book about nineteenth-century poetic style and its relationship to the literary canon. 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
“Meaningful Aesthetics: a Comparison of Open Source Network Analysis Tools.” In Zoomland: Exploring Scale in Digital History and Humanities. Ed. Florentina Armaselu and Andreas Fickers. Studies in Digital History and Hermenutics vol 7. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111317779-014
“Distant Reading.” In Technology and Literature. Ed. Adam Hammond. Cambridge Critical Concepts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 361–76. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108560740.023
“Rhyme Frequency in Nineteenth-Century English Poetry.” In Computational Stylistics in Poetry, Prose, and Drama. Ed. Anne-Sophie Bories, Petr Plechá?, and Pablo Ruiz Fabo. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. 117-132. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110781502-007
“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.