I collaborate to develop theoretically-grounded computational approaches for understanding narrative, memory, and computation, aimed at making a small intervention of interest to multiple fields.  I then experiment with that approach on a corpus of narrative texts, interpret the results and the method, and advance the relevant theory in relation to those findings. With support from the NSF, NEH, Knight Foundation, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Minerva Institute at the Department of Defense, results of my work have appeared in international venues for DH, computational linguistics, big data, and data visualization.

Some of the projects I have initiated or to which I have contributed:

Teaching in Translation: Contextualizing World Literature by Mining Multilingual Wikipedias

Expanding the Korsakow System, a Tool for Interactive Media Research, Scholarly Production, and Hybrid Pedagogy

Stadiumville: Civil Rights in the Shadow of Sports Financing and Urban Renewal

Mobilizing Media: A Deep and Comparative Analysis of Magazines, Music, and Videos in the Context of Terrorism

Towards an Interactive Criticism

Toxic Conversation: Modeling the Language of Hate in Games, News, and Online Communities

A Wolf At the Door: adaptations in immersive storytelling from fable and film to CGI and virtual reality

'We were there': Mapping language and memory across Holocaust testimony collections

ATLmaps

Notoriously Toxic: Understanding the Language and Costs of Hate and Harassment in Online Games

Digging into Human Rights Violations: Anaphora Resolution and the Emergent Witness

Digital Humanities in the BeNeLux Region

Atlanta Computational Social Science Forum

Computational Models of Narrative Workshop Series

Events and Stories in the News Workshop Series