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.
I am thinking a lot these days about my own mortality. That’s not because I am obsessed with death or anything of the sort. It’s more that my health problems...
Read Article →My colleague Ian discovered the other day that, alarmingly, even if you tell Claude code not ever to read your.env files, it may still do so and send the res...
Read Article →Our rescue dog, Luka, is a very traumatised soul. He spent eight years living in a shelter, with no home comforts, in the harsh Bosnian climate. He is a cons...
Read Article →I have been having an intermittent problem where my microphone just drops out arbitrarily on Linux and I can’t access it anymore. It turns out that this was ...
Read Article →It turns out that there is a very long genealogy of saying that there is too much work/scholarship, or too many books, published. I was having an email conve...
Read Article →I have had two YubiKeys for years. They are very cool devices. I used to store my keys themselves on the YubiKey, and perhaps I’ll go back to doing that. But...
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.