This essay examines the use of smartphone applications for contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic through the theory of algorithmic governmentality. It considers the drive toward personalization associated with contemporary technology as highly compatible with the biopolitics of these government-supported frameworks. The contact tracing…[Read more]

Cultural Analytics is an introductory course and assumes no prior knowledge of literary studies, critical approaches, statistics, or data analysis. This course provides an overview of emergent quantitative methods and theories used by humanists to study data in text and text as data. As we examine these objects, we’ll ask questions about the d…[Read more]

Syllabus for ENGL 64.05 “Cultural Analytics,” taught Fall 2019 at Dartmouth College.

Moonbit is a hybrid work comprised of experimental poetry and a critical theory of the poetics and politics of computer code. It offers an extended intellectual and creative engagement with the affordances of computer software through multiple readings and re-writings of a singular text, the source code of the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer or the…[Read more]

Syllabus for DH graduate seminar.