In addition to his 2015 Cambridge University Press book, The Invention of English Criticism, 1650 – 1760, he has published his research in a wide array of journals and edited collections, including Cultural Analytics, Critical Inquiry, Debates in Digital Humanities, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Digital Humanities Quarterly, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, and Book History.
His broad research interests include literature, intellectual history, and digital humanities – broadly speaking, in the ways that technology affects communication. His recent research efforts explore how new forms of digital writing might make possible new ways of thinking and talking about literature and history, and involve computational linguistics, network science, geospatial modeling, and agent-based simulation.
In addition to his 2015 Cambridge University Press book, The Invention of English Criticism, 1650 – 1760, he has published his research in a wide array of journals and edited collections, including Cultural Analytics, Critical Inquiry, Debates in Digital Humanities, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Digital Humanities Quarterly, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, and Book History.
He served as Co-Director of the University’s Center for Digital Humanities for two years (2016-2018) and is currently engaged in several web-based research projects. Two of these are: (i) the development of interactive website for showcasing USC’s collection of works by the eighteenth-century artist and architect, Giovanni Piranesi (with Jeanne Britton, Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections), and (ii) the Encyclopedia of Global Ethnolinguistic Conflict (with Stanley Dubinsky).