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Senior Lecturer in Digital Studies

Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

Co-ordinating the Digital Studies Minor, and conducting original research in Digital Humanities.

• Set up Digital Studies minor

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Digital and Social Media, University of Technology Sydney

Researcher on ARC-funded project, Wikipedia and the Nation's Story.

• wikkitidy R package
• wikihistories reports website
• wikihistories 2023

Community Technical Advisor

Heurist Network, University of Sydney

User support for Humanities Data Management app.

Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature

School of English, University of Kent

Teaching and research position in large English department.

Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education

University of Kent

Higher Education

PhD

University of Kent

English Literature

MPhil

University of Sydney

English Literature

Bachlor of Arts

University of Sydney

English Literature

Bachelor of Laws

University of Sydney

Law

Romanticism and the Contingent Self: The Challenge of Representation

Palgrave

A digital analysis of the language of selfhood in Romantic literature from Australia, Ireland and elsewhere.

Databasing as research: new paradigms for the long tail ...

Routledge

A discussion of 'databasing as research' as implemented in Heurist; with Ian Johnson.

How Australians are Represented in Wikipedia

Wikihistories Reports

A thorough examination of the 60,000 biographies of Australians in Wikipedia; with Heather Ford, Kelly Tall and Tamson Pietsch.

Three Models of World Literature

Routledge

How can 'world literature' be modelled computationally? In at least three ways.

Embodiment in 18th Century Depictions of Human-Machine Co-Creativity

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

How can humans and machine collaborate to create things? Some ideas from old books. With Anna Kantosalo and Anna Jourdanos.

Stationers, Papetiers and the Supply Networks of a Swiss Publisher: The Sociéte Typographique de Neuchâtel and the Paper Trade 1769–1789

Brill

How did the cost of paper shape the Enlightenment? A case study. With Simon Burrows, Rachel Hendery and Katie McDonough.

Artificial Stupidity

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

We worry about what it means for a machine to be 'intelligent'. But what does it mean for a machine to be 'stupid'?

Digital Humanities

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature

An introduction to Digital Humanities from a literary perspective; with Simon Burrows.

Sad Realities: The Romantic Tragedies of Charles Harpur

Romantic Textualities

The first published analysis of both Harpur's plays: The Bushrangers (1853) and King Saul (c. 1838)

The Endless Forms of Things: Harpur's Radicalism Revisited

JASAL

In what sense was Harpur 'radical'? My intervention in this long-standing scholarly conversation.

The Nightjar’s Shriek: Nature’s Variety in the Sonnets of John Clare and Charlotte Smith

John Clare Society Journal

A digital comparison of two of the best Romantic sonneteers, who shared a similar passion for precise natural description.

Making Connections: Network Analysis, the Bildungsroman, and the World of the Absentee

JLLC

Analysis of the character-system in Maria Edgeworth's most famous novel, using network analysis.

wikihistories

wikihistories is an ARC-funded project based at the University of Technology Sydney (DP220100662), and is led by Heather Ford. It aims to uncover how Australia is represented in Wikipedia, and provide a model for further national studies of the encylcopaedia.

• Wikihistories Reports
• Wikkitidy R package