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2026-03-20: Linguistic concreteness over Richardson’s Pamela
2026-02-20: Psychoanalyzing “displacement” in large language models
2026-02-20: AI completions of historical poems bias emotion toward positivity and away from arousal
2026-01-02: Analytic philosophy can be distinguished from literary criticism via syntax alone
2025-12-18: The usage of “reading” doubles in literary studies, 1920-2020
2025-12-17: The relative usages of “[adjective] reading” in Anglophone literary studies journals, 1920-2020
2025-12-07: Temperature does not explain formal stuckness on rhyme in LLMs
2025-10-13: Not training data but fine-tuning explains formal stuckness on rhyme in LLMs
2025-10-13: LLM-generated verse is formally stuck on rhyme and regular meter
2025-03-21: Fine-tuning LLMs increases their propensity to rhyme
2024-09-26: LLMs rewrite history on Random House publishing by race, 1950-2000
2024-09-25: LLMs rewrite history on female publication rates for novels, 1800-2000
2024-09-21: Tech layoffs vs ChatGPT usage
2024-05-20: Using LLMs to assess “marital suspense” in Austen, Burney and Richardson
2024-03-14: Bias in New York Times’ coverage of Israel and Palestine
2023-11-10: Testing the Sattelzeit hypothesis
2023-11-10: Ultrasounds of semantic change
2023-11-10: Identifying pivot-points in semantic changes of keywords
2022-05-27: Concreteness in the (mostly British) canon
2021-08-07: Number of academic jobs in English, 2011-2021
2021-03-01: Most abstract and concrete passages in canonical fiction
2021-03-01: Mapping character networks geographically (Lazarillo)
2021-03-01: Mapping character networks geographically (Heliodorus)
2021-03-01: Mapping character networks geographically (Homer)
2021-01-12: Number of creative writing jobs by genre, 2011-2020
2020-11-24: Number of academic jobs in English by job type, 2011-2020
2020-11-23: Number of academic jobs in English literature, 2011-2020
2020-03-14: Tracing types of semantic change
2020-03-06: Measuring anthropomorphism
2020-02-24: Posted talk to King’s College as scroll-based page
2020-01-29: A linguistic map of the canon
2020-01-16: Clarissa under the microscope
2019-11-18: Academic job numbers in English literature (updated)
2019-10-13: Academic job numbers in English literature
2019-08-28: Figure 1 of my dissertation
2019-02-07: Measuring personification
2018-11-05: Agency Index
2018-07-12: Character space in Sense and Sensibility
2018-04-17: Anti-metricality
2018-01-30: Abstraction vs. judgment
2018-01-23: Computational Keywords
2017-11-06: Abstraction vs. agency
2017-09-26: Sociography of the 18th century print market
2017-07-28: Transformation of ‘labour’
2017-07-13: Understanding OCR errors
2017-07-03: Most reprinted 18th century texts
2017-06-23: Corpus vs. bibliography
2017-06-15: Exponential rise of print market in 18th century
2017-04-28: Computational model takes standardized test
2017-03-26: World literary trends (part 2)
2017-03-25: World literary trends (part 1)
2017-12-18: ELIZA’s descendants
2016-09-15: Semantic networks
2016-06-16: Semantic fields in vector space
2016-06-15: Diachronic semantic networks
2014-06-09: Reading at meso-scale with Moby-Dick