I am an Associate Professor of English and Hutchinson Distinguished Professor at Loyola University New Orleans, a liberal arts college.
My book, The Rise of Celebrity Authorship: Nineteenth-Century Print Culture and Antislavery has just been published by Columbia UP. Literary celebrity in the nineteenth century emerged from a miscellaneous array of trending print forms, including antislavery writing, which was a popular, consumable form of literature in the period. The Rise of Celebrity Authorship illuminates the collective creation of celebrity by tracing unexpected connections within the anarchic nineteenth-century literary marketplace, drawing on computational approaches from book history and findings from algorithmic criticism.
I specialize in 19th century poetry and prose and in combining theoretical and computational approaches. My first book, Reductive Reading: A Syntax of Victorian Moralizing (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018), is a study of deliberately reductive reading practices from nineteenth-century moralism to distant reading in the present that yield surprising--and surprisingly subtle--results. As a member of the Stanford Literary Lab, I co-authored several of the studies in Canon/Archive (n+1 books, 2017). My essays have appeared in ELH, Genre, Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Poetry, Journal of Cultural Analytics, Public Books, The Rambling, and Avidly. With Megan Ward, I co-edited a Special Issue of Studies in the Novel: "Nobody Cares but Everybody Should: Towards a New History of the Novel" (2024).
I am affiliated with the Section on the Sociology of Literature and the Uppsala Computational Literary Studies Group at Uppsala University. This work includes a PMLA essay on the English translations of Stieg Larsson's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo books co-authored by Karl Berglund and me.
My book, The Rise of Celebrity Authorship: Nineteenth-Century Print Culture and Antislavery has just been published by Columbia UP. Literary celebrity in the nineteenth century emerged from a miscellaneous array of trending print forms, including antislavery writing, which was a popular, consumable form of literature in the period. The Rise of Celebrity Authorship illuminates the collective creation of celebrity by tracing unexpected connections within the anarchic nineteenth-century literary marketplace, drawing on computational approaches from book history and findings from algorithmic criticism.
I specialize in 19th century poetry and prose and in combining theoretical and computational approaches. My first book, Reductive Reading: A Syntax of Victorian Moralizing (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018), is a study of deliberately reductive reading practices from nineteenth-century moralism to distant reading in the present that yield surprising--and surprisingly subtle--results. As a member of the Stanford Literary Lab, I co-authored several of the studies in Canon/Archive (n+1 books, 2017). My essays have appeared in ELH, Genre, Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Poetry, Journal of Cultural Analytics, Public Books, The Rambling, and Avidly. With Megan Ward, I co-edited a Special Issue of Studies in the Novel: "Nobody Cares but Everybody Should: Towards a New History of the Novel" (2024).
I am affiliated with the Section on the Sociology of Literature and the Uppsala Computational Literary Studies Group at Uppsala University. This work includes a PMLA essay on the English translations of Stieg Larsson's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo books co-authored by Karl Berglund and me.
