Investigating whether computer-generated algorithms could “recognize” literary genres.

Computationally modeling stylistic changes within the novel that mimic other disciplinary discourses

Investigating the postwar representation of domestic technology in 20th century women’s magazines

What traces does a source language leave on its translation into English?

Exploring the intersections of fame, identity, and materiality over the past 250 years of American culture

Exploring scenes of isolation from the eighteenth century through the present day

Examining the conceptual development and usage of "voice" in vernacular literary criticism

Developing a historically sensitive account of how different ethnic groups occupied the US racial imaginary

What is the typical American novel about?

Exploring he development and progression of genre by mining two decades of fan fiction

Using sentiment analysis to explore the rhetoric of reports from the OECD Working Group on Bribery

Using computational methods to trace large historical trends across a corpus of star texts

Tracing the variation of poetic form over a large corpus of English-language poetry, combining prosodic and metrical analysis with phonetics, natural language processing, and statistics

Investigating the relationship between title and text in eighteenth-century fiction

How has the Norton helped to create a literary canon, and how has this canon changed over time?

Using computer models to identify the fundamental properties of dramatic networks

Unpacking the transhistorical and transgeneric commonalities of suspense literature

Tracing linguistic trends in a corpus of environmental law cases decided by the Supreme Court since the early 1970s

Complicating the ways that computational methods can be used to explore gender by studying the dialogic speech in novels as gendered performances by the author of the text

Tracking the emergence of detective films with a high number of anachronies in the 90's

Creating an emotional map of the English metropolis, charting the affective significance of place-names mentioned in 18th & 19th century novels

Tracking the evolution of the discourse of the World Bank Report from 1958-2008

Developing a corpus of 20c novels & comparing various potential lists

Measuring the loudness of dialogue, through lenses of semantics, plot, and historic change

Two case studies on going from literary concept to quantitative evidence

Examining the 'social life' of books through thousands of book reviews

Using character networks for a quantitative analysis of plot

This project uses supervised modelling techniques to explore the connections of the gothic novel to contemporaneous modes of literary realism.