Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London.
Technical Lead for Knowledge Commons at Michigan State University.
Bridging the gap between computational technology and literary studies.
Researching, advocating for, and building open-access publishing models and technology in the humanities.
Developing computational tools for the analysis of literature.
Researching contemporary American fiction.
Yesterday marked the publication of the Module 3 report of the Covid inquiry. You can read a summary version or the full version of the report. The report st...
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Read Article →Today’s tech anomaly was odd. I’m working on a new WordPress theme and obviously WordPress has to load its assets like the CSS file and the JavaScript file. ...
Read Article →An exploration of how digital technologies are reshaping the way we write, publish, and read in the 21st century. This book argues for a radical rethinking of scholarly communication.