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).