About

I am an English graduate student at Indiana University Bloomington, examining the influence of telegraphy on nineteenth- to early-twentieth-century American prose fiction in terms of style. To this end, I make use of machine learning and natural language processing technologies. To complement this study, I plan on mapping the spread of telegraphy over time in the United States using geographic information systems (GIS) tools.

My interest in GIS also has a pedagogical dimension; I believe that GIS is of utmost importance in the teaching of literature, which is so often deeply engaged with place. As a HASTAC scholar, my primary aim is to showcase the manifold potentiality of GIS in the study and the teaching of literature.