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Matthew Jockers

Stanford University
Department of English

Matthew Jockers is Academic Technology Specialist and Consulting Assistant Professor of English at Stanford. His research and teaching are focused on Irish-American literature and humanities computing. Jockers writes custom software applications to support his research and is the developer of the Irish-American Literature database (IALD) hosted by the Western Institute of Irish Studies.

Project Summary

The Macro-Analytic Method: Quantitative Methods for Large Scale Literary Analysis is a project investigating and developing technologies for mining electronic literary corpora. Using custom software to process thousands of literary texts, the research provides a means for tracking and exploring literary history and stylistic trends over the course of centuries or throughout the expanse of genres.