Publications
“Cultural Collapse: Toward a Generative Formalism for AI Cultural Production.” Anthology of Computers and the Humanities 3 (2025).
“Generative Aesthetics: On formal stuckness in AI verse.” Journal of Cultural Analytics 10.3 (2025), special issue on Computational Formalism.
“Computational Hermeneutics: Evaluating Generative AI as a Cultural Technology.” SSRN, 1 Aug 2025. (Co-authored with Cody Kommers et al).
“Computing Koselleck: Modeling Semantic Revolutions, 1720-1960.” Explorations in the Digital History of Ideas. Ed. Peter de Bolla. Cambridge University Press. 2024.
“Enlightenment Entanglements of Improvement and Growth.” Explorations in the Digital History of Ideas. Ed. Peter de Bolla. Cambridge University Press. 2024. (Co-authored with Peter de Bolla and Mark Algee-Hewitt).
“Mapping London’s Emotions.” New Left Review 101 (2016): 63-91. (Co-authored with Franco Moretti and Erik Steiner).
“Mapping the Emotions of London in Fiction, 1700-1900: A Crowdsourcing Experiment.” Literary Mapping in the Digital Age. Ed. David Cooper, Chris Donaldson, and Patricia Murrieta-Flores. Ashgate. 2016. (Co-authored with Mark Algee-Hewitt, Van Tran, Annalise Lockhart, and Erik Steiner).
“Phonological and Metrical Variation across Genres”. Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Meeting on Phonology (2016). (Co-authored with Arto Anttila).
“Learning to Read Data: Bringing out the Humanistic in the Digital Humanities.” Victorian Studies 54.1 (2011): 79-86. (Co-authored with Long Le-Khac).
Reprinted in Canon/Archive: Studies in Quantitative Formalism from the Stanford Literary Lab, ed. Franco Moretti (New York: n+1, 2017):
“The Emotions of London.” Stanford Literary Lab 13 (2016). (Co-authored with Franco Moretti and Erik Steiner).
“Canon/Archive: Large-scale Dynamics in the Literary Field.” Stanford Literary Lab 11 (2016). (Co-authored with Mark Algee-Hewitt, Sarah Allison, Marissa Gemma, Franco Moretti, and Hannah Walser).
“On Paragraphs: Scale, Themes, and Narrative Form).” Stanford Literary Lab 10 (2015). (Co-authored with Mark Algee-Hewitt and Franco Moretti).
“Style at the Scale of the Sentence.” Stanford Literary Lab 5 (2013). (Co-authored with Sarah Allison, Marissa Gemma, Franco Moretti, Amir Tevel, and Irena Yamboliev).
“A Quantitative Literary History of 2,958 Nineteenth-Century British Novels: The Semantic Cohort Method.” Stanford Literary Lab 4 (2012). (Co-authored with Long Le-Khac).
“Quantitative Formalism: an Experiment.” Stanford Literary Lab 1 (2011). (Co-authored with Sarah Allison, Matthew Jockers, Franco Moretti, and Michael Witmore).