Publications

Book

• Training for Catastrophe: National Security and the Use of Fiction After 9/11. University of Minnesota Press, 2021. Investigates the use of fiction as a mode of knowledge production within contemporary US national security discourse, arguing that this dependence on fiction – at once strange, remarkable, and unsettling – is a political tool for shaping how we imagine and respond to catastrophe today.

Articles and Book Chapters

• “BookTok and the Rituals of Recommendation,” Post45, “Reading with Algorithms” Contemporaries cluster
• “Bunkers Against Planning,” Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal, issue 55 (2023).
• “What Everyone Says About the Humanities: Public Perceptions of the Humanities in the Media,” Alan Liu, Abigail Droge, Scott Kleinman, Lindsay Thomas, Dan C. Baciu, and Jeremy Douglass, Daedalus, 151.3 (Summer 2022)
• “The Humanities in Public: A Computational Analysis of US National and Campus Newspapers,” co-authored with Abigail Droge, Journal of Cultural Analytics, January 18, 2022.
• “Modeling Long Novels: Network Analysis and A Brief History of Seven Killings,” The Palgrave Handbook of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature and Science, eds. The Triangle Collective (Palgrave). 2020, 653-667.
• “Preparedness Documents After the Fact,” The Routledge Companion to Media and Risk, eds. Bhaskar Sarkar and Bishnupriya Ghosh (Routledge). 2020, 165-176.
• “Information,” American Literature in Transition: 2000-2010, ed. Rachel Greenwald-Smith, (Cambridge University Press, 2018), 181-192.
• “Forms of Duration: Preparedness, the Mars Trilogy, and the Management of Climate Change,” American Literature (March 2016): 159-184.
• “Active Users: Project Development and Digital Humanities Pedagogy,” Co-authored with Dana Solomon, CEA Critic, 26.2 (Summer 2014): 211-220.
• “Pandemics of the Future: Disease Surveillance in Real Time,” Surveillance and Society 12.2 (2014).
• “Speculative Environments: Spaces of Disease Surveillance,” Media Fields Journal 4 (2012).

Reviews and Other Writing

• “Thinking With Robots”, American Literature 95.2 (2023): 381-395.
• “What We Learned About the Humanities from a Study of Thousands of Newspaper Articles,” co-authored with Abigail Droge, Journal of Cultural Analytics, May 24, 2002.
• Review of John Hay, Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature (2017); Johannes Voelz, The Poetics of Insecurity (2018); and Timothy Recuber, Consuming Catastrophe: Mass Culture in America’s Decade of Disaster (2016); American Literature 92.1 (2020): 159-161.
• “Why We Read Novels,” Contemporary Literature 56.2 (Summer 2015): 386-93.

Software and Datasets

• WE1S Datasets, co-authored with WE1S project participants. Click here to access all datasets and doi’s.
  • 6 datasets totaling ~9.7 million records, including newspaper and magazine articles, posts from Twitter and Reddit, and TV and radio news transcripts, mainly from documents published or posted between 2005 and 2018.
• WE1S Workspace, co-authored with WE1S project participants. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5034712.
  • A containerized environment for importing, managing, and analyzing textual data using a variety of built-in analysis and visualization tools. Contains software for replicating WE1S data analysis workflows and allows users to upload their own data for analysis using our processes.