In the summer of 2021, Critical Inquiry published my article on the ways in which computation and interpretation interface in contemporary literary scholarship. The article […]
Excess Mortality and COVID-19
New Interface Below, I lay out the narrative for the by-cause-and-jurisdiction excess mortality graphs available at https://www.covid-excess-mortality.net/ Here, a screenshot of a new interface I’m […]
Curriculum Vitae
Trained in Romantic studies, aesthetic theory, and the history of science, and self-trained in the digital humanities, I work as the Humanities Computing Researcher/Facilitator in […]
Dihedral Angles
This is a project of mine that’s reached a nice stopping point for the time being. From 2020-22, I got interested in “nets,” that geometric […]
Omeka with a capital S!
Two years back, Dr. Alida Metcalf, in the Rice history department, came looking for some help in integrating a few of her research collections: a […]
The Herschel Machine
Abstract: A Rice University undergraduate astrophysics student, Adolfo Carvalho, worked with a humanities researcher, John Mulligan, in the summer of 2018 to develop a framework […]
The Electronic Vesalius
Abstract: A multidisciplinary team at Rice University transformed the Texas Medical Center (TMC) Library’s collection of rare anatomy atlases into a physical-digital, human-sized atlas-of-atlases. The […]
Middle-Distant Reading
Abstract – Computational Textual Analysis (CTA) is a controversial sub-field in the digital humanities. Previous work has shown that critics misunderstand the field’s objectives but […]
Corporate Medical Cultures
Abstract: This paper contributes to the evolving body of literature diagnosing the “business-like” transformation of American medicine by historicizing and recuperating the concepts of medical […]
Blake After Newton
Blake’s experiments with geometry show us a kind of repetition that refuse the binary between distraction and concentration, and between abstraction and apparent organicism. Rule-based […]