The humanities have a replication crisis of monumental proportions: so many theories have never been adequately tested or validated.

Matt Erlin
Matt Erlin is professor of German and comparative literature at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is a founding member of the Humanities Digital Workshop. He is the coeditor of the collection Distant Readings: Topographies of German Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century (Boydell and Brewer, 2014) and the author or coauthor of several recent articles that apply computational techniques to the study of German, European, and North American literary history.