Ted Underwood is a professor of English and information sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign, and author of Why Literary Periods Mattered (Stanford University Press, 2013). He blogs about quantitative approaches to literary history at The Stone and the Shell and can be found on Twitter as @Ted_Underwood.
Ted Underwood
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Writing on Public Books
Why an Age of Machine Learning Needs the Humanities
It isn’t easy to be a citizen in 2018. We are told to watch out for bots and biased …
The Stanford Literary Lab’s Narrative
Seven years ago, in a small room at the top of a winding stair in Palo Alto, a strange experiment got underway. A group of literary critics began to build a laboratory. Labs themselves are not unusual on university campuses, but in 2010 it was far from clear what a group of critics would do […]
How to Predict a Bestseller
Literary theory is not a field that creates many bestsellers. Biographies of Shakespeare will always have a market, and now and then a work like Camille Paglia’s Sexual Personae rides a wave of controversy. But literary research is hard to popularize: Malcolm Gladwell doesn’t write page-turners about narrative theory. The Bestseller Code tries to become […]
