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Ted Underwood
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. 
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 ...
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 ...