People
Lab Administration
Mark Algee-Hewitt
Mark Algee-Hewitt’s research focuses on the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in England and Germany and seeks to combine literary criticism with digital and quantitative analyses of literary texts. In particular he is interested in the history of aesthetic theory and the development and transmission of aesthetic and philosophic concepts during the Enlightenment and Romantic periods. He is also interested in the relationship between aesthetic theory and the poetry of the long eighteenth century. Mark Algee-Hewitt can be reached at malgeehe@stanford.edu.
Matt Warner
Matt Warner works on the intersection of queer theory and computational methods. His research focuses on the 20th century history of anglophone queer book publication and circulation, with a particular focus on the history of bibliographies, book recommendation and their connection to queer representation in fiction. Matt Warner can be reached at mattgw@stanford.edu.
Core Research Team
Nichole Nomura
Nichole Nomura received her PhD from the Stanford University Department of English and is a graduate of Stanford’s Graduate School of Education (M.A). Currently a postdoctoral scholar at C.E.S.T.A., she studies textual difficulty, representations of literary study in school contexts, and how science fiction and young adult literature teach and are taught, using methods from the digital humanities, literary criticism, and education. Nichole Nomura can be reached at nnomura@stanford.edu. Nichole Nomura can be reached at nnomura@stanford.edu.
Unjoo Oh
Unjoo Oh is a PhD candidate in English literature at Stanford University. She received her MA degree in English from Sogang University, South Korea. Her research centers around British literature from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries, especially on how (in)organic nonhumans affect and are affected by the remediation of premodern texts. She is also a graduate coordinator of Renaissances at Stanford. Unjoo Oh can be reached at ujoh@stanford.edu. Unjoo Oh can be reached at ujoh@stanford.edu.
Alex Sherman
Alex Sherman is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Stanford University. He studies literature and science, maritime colonialism, and Gothic fiction, focusing on the British empire in the eighteenth century. His work with the Literary Lab has appeared in The Journal of Cultural Analytics and Post45. He is also a graduate coordinator at the Center for the Study of the Novel. Alex Sherman can be reached at ajsherm@stanford.edu.
Carmen Thong
Carmen Thong is a PhD candidate in English and is completing an MA in Public Policy at Stanford University. She works in the fields of Postcolonial/World Literature and Digital Humanities, and studies how texts from the Global South are discovered within the global literary supply chain. She is also a Knight Hennessy scholar and a Jacobsson Family Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow. Carmen Thong can be reached at tcarmen@stanford.edu.
Members
| Kay Barrett | ||
| Emma Brush | ebrush@stanford.edu | |
| Lydia Burleson | ||
| Annika Butler-Wall | ||
| Quinn Dombrowski | qad@stanford.edu | |
| Steele Douris | sdouris@stanford.edu | |
| Catrin Haberfield | ||
| Gabi Keane | ||
| Alix Keener | alixkee@stanford.edu | |
| Annie K. Lamar | kalamar@stanford.edu | |
| Luca Messarra | ||
| Jessica Monaco | ||
| Merve Tekgürler | mtekgurl@stanford.edu |
RAs
| Julia Gershon | ||
| Sarah Sophie Schwarzhappel |
Collaborators
| Simone Abiatti | University of Bergamo | |
| Erik Fredner | University of Virginia | |
| Svenja Guhr | Technical University of Darmstadt | |
| Aaron Hanlon | Colby College | |
| Ryan Heuser | Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University | |
| Mike Hill | SUNY Albany | |
| Yuliya Ilchuk | Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University | |
| Yohei Igarashi | University of Connecticut | |
| Maciej Kurzynski | Lingnan University | |
| Zuza Leniarska | University of Warsaw | |
| Mark McGurl | Stanford English Department | |
| Lisa Mendelman | Menlo College | |
| Anna Mukamal | Coastal Carolina University | |
| J.D. Porter | Price Lab; University of Pennsylvania | |
| Ramón Saldívar | Stanford English Department | |
| Kendra Terry | Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University | |
| Elaine Treharne | Stanford English Department | |
| Jennifer Wolf | Stanford Graduate School of Education |
Alumni
| Luca Abbattista | |||
| Sarah Allison | Loyola University | ||
| Cameron Blevins | Northeastern University | ||
| Michael Burger | Roger Williams University | ||
| Cynthia Chen | |||
| Abigail Droge | Emory University | ||
| Tasha Eccles | Yale University | ||
| Ed Finn | Arizona State University | ||
| Morgan Frank | Harvard University | ||
| Marissa Gemma | |||
| Vickie Googasian | |||
| Holst Katsma | |||
| Maria Kraxenberger | University of Suttgart | ||
| Glen Layne-Worthey | HathiTrust Research Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | ||
| Long Le-Khac | Loyola University, Chicago | ||
| Xander Manshel | McGill University | ||
| Felix Muzny | |||
| Dominique Pestre | |||
| Stefania Petruzzelli | |||
| Kelsey Reardon | |||
| Andrew Shepard | University of Utah | ||
| Elisabetta Sibilio | Università degli studi di Cassino | ||
| Micah Siegal | |||
| Oleg Sobchuk | University of Tartu | ||
| Regina T.H. Ta | |||
| Hannah Walser | New York University | ||
| Irena Yamboliev |