• University of Chicago, Ph.D. with honors in French (June 2010).
  Dissertation: Challenging History: Charles Péguy and the Fight for Literature. (html)
• Ohio State Univeristy, M.A. in French (June 1999).
• Wabash College, B.A. with honors in French and Classics (May 1997).

Book projects

• Monograph: Writing Against History: the Literary Polemics of Charles Péguy (manuscript in review, Oxford University Press).
• Co-authored volume: Voltaire’s Style: Studies in Digital Methods (in preparation with Nicholas Cronk, Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford).
• Book chapter: "The Notion of the Textbase: Design and Use of Textbases in the Humanities”, with Charles Cooney and Mark Olsen. In Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology. Kenneth Price and Ray Siemens, eds. New York: Modern Language Association of America. (html)

Editorial projects

• Associate Editor, Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert, eds. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers (1751-1772). Online Digital Edition: ARTFL Project, University of Chicago. (html)
• Voltaire, "Avertissements” in André Morellet, Recueil des Facéties Parisiennes, 1760: Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford.
• Encyclopédie. iPad Application, University of Chicago, 2013. (link)

Articles

• "L’étude littéraire à l’ère du numérique : Enjeux méthodologiques des « digital humanities »”, PhiN: Philologie im Netz (forthcoming).
• "To Quote or not to Quote: Citation Strategies in the Encyclopédie”, with Dan Edelstein and Robert Morrissey. Journal of the History of Ideas 74.2 (April 2013): 213-36. (html)
• "Re-imagining French Lexicography: The Dictionnaire vivant de la langue française”, with Tim Allen and Robert Morrissey. Dictionaries: The Journal of The Dictionary Society of North America 32 (2011): 129-43. (html)
• "Reading against History: The Unfolding of the Literary Work in Péguy’s Clio”. The French Review 85.2 December 2011): 54-67. (html)
• "Something Borrowed: Sequence Alignment and the Identification of Similar Passages in Large Text Collections”, with Russell Horton and Mark Olsen. Digital Studies / Le Champ numérique 2.1 (2010). (html)
• "Plundering Philosophers: Identifying Sources of the Encyclopédie”, with Timothy Allen, Stéphane Douard, Charles Cooney, Russell Horton, Robert Morrissey, Mark Olsen, and Robert Voyer. Journal of the Association for History and Computing 13.1 (Spring 2010). (html)
• "Contre Taine et Renan: Charles Péguy and the Metaphysics of Modern History". French Forum 34.2 (Spring 2009): 17-37. (html)
• "Mining Eighteenth Century Ontologies: Machine Learning and Knowledge Classification in the Encyclopédie”, with Russell Horton, Robert Morrissey, Mark Olsen, and Robert Voyer. Digital Humanities Quarterly 3.2 (Spring 2009). (html)
• "Wikidemia? Scholarly publishing on the World Wide Web”, with Charles M. Cooney. Online roundtable discussion in Working Papers in Romance Languages 1.1 (Fall 2006). (pdf)

Abstracts

• "Intertextuality and Influence in the Age of Enlightenment: Sequence Alignment Applications for Humanities Research”, Digital Humanities 2012, ed. Jan Christoph Meister. University of Hamburg, Germany (2012): 345-47. (pdf)
• "Hidden Roads and Twisted Paths: Intertextual Discovery using Clusters, Classifications, and Similarities”, with Charles Cooney, Russell Horton, Mark Olsen, and Robert Voyer. Digital Humanities 2008, eds. Lisa Opas-Hänninen, Mikko Jokelainen, Ikka Juuso, and Tapio Seppänen. Univeristy of Oulu, Finland (2008): 93-94. (pdf)
• "Deconstructing Machine Learning: A Challenge for Digital Humanities”, with Charles Cooney, Russell Horton, Mark Olsen, and Robert Voyer. Digital Humanities 2008, eds. Lisa Opas-Hänninen, Mikko Jokelainen, Ikka Juuso, and Tapio Seppänen. Univeristy of Oulu, Finland (2008): 89-90. (pdf)
• "Feature Creep: Evaluating Feature Sets for Text Mining Literary Corpora”, with Charles Cooney, Russell Horton, Mark Olsen, and Robert Voyer. Digital Humanities 2008, eds. Lisa Opas-Hänninen, Mikko Jokelainen, Ikka Juuso, and Tapio Seppänen. Univeristy of Oulu, Finland (2008): 91-92. (pdf)
• "PhiloMine: An Integrated Environment for Humanities Text Mining”, with Charles Cooney, Russell Horton, Mark Olsen, and Robert Voyer. Digital Humanities 2008, eds. Lisa Opas-Hänninen, Mikko Jokelainen, Ikka Juuso, and Tapio Seppänen. Univeristy of Oulu, Finland (2008): 237-38. (pdf)
• "Mining Eighteenth Century Ontologies: Machine Learning and Knowledge Classification in the Encyclopédie”, with Russell Horton, Robert Morrissey, Mark Olsen, and Robert Voyer. Digital Humanities 2007, eds. Sara Schmidt, Ray Siemens, Amit Kumar, and John Unsworth. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2007): 81-83. (html)
• "Extending PhiloLogic”, with Charles Cooney, Russell Horton, Mark Olsen, and Robert Voyer. Digital Humanities 2007, eds. Sara Schmidt, Ray Siemens, Amit Kumar, and John Unsworth. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2007): 42-43. (html)

Invited talks

• "Untangling the Social Network of the Eighteenth Century: Epistolary Intertextuality in the Age of Enlightenment”. Early Modern French Seminar, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, May 2013.
• "Exploring Enlightenment: Text Mining the 18th-Century Republic of Letters”. UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, University College London, London, UK, April 2013. (html)
• "Qu’est-ce que c’est que les Questions sur l'Encyclopédie de Voltaire? Leur lien avec l'Encyclopédie”, with Nicholas Cronk. L’édition électronique de l’Encyclopédie : nouveaux accès, nouveaux usages, nouvelles recherches. Colloquium, Université Paris-Diderot, Paris, France, April 2013.
• "The Eighteenth-Century Republic of Letters: From Encyclopédie to Electronic Enlightenment”. Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment Workshop, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, February 2013.
• "Exploring Enlightenment: Text Mining and Intertextuality in the 18th-century Republic of Letters”. Digital Humanities Lab, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 2012.
• "Exploring the Eighteenth-Century Digital Archive”. President’s Seminar, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, October 2012.
• "Prendre le tournant numérique: l’expérience de l’ARTFL”, with Robert Morrissey. Medicine, Literature, and the Web. World Knowledge Dialogue Workshop, Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, October 2012.
• "‘Que ce ne soit point un labyrinthe tourtueux:’ L’édition numérique de l’Encyclopédie”. Congrès de l’Association des franco-romanistes allemands (AFRA). Atelier: "Révolution des médias, évolution des études de lettres?” Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, September 2012.
• "Electronic Enlightenment: The Challenges of Online Correspondence Collections”, with Nicholas Cronk. Online Editions: Problems and New Perspectives. Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland, May 2012.
• "Text Mining Electronic Enlightenment: Influence and Intertextuality in the 18th-century Republic of Letters”. Cultures of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe. Seminar, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, May 2012. (slides) (podcast)
• "Quelques sources de l'Encyclopédie revues à la lumière de nouvelles techniques informatiques”, with Robert Morrissey. Séminaire: La Manufacture Encyclopédique, Société Diderot, Paris, France, May 2012.
• "Networks and Communities in 18th-century Correspondence Collections”. Digital Communities: Pro-Vice Chancellor’s Workshop on the Digital Humanities. University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, December 2011.
• "Names and Games in Voltaire’s Correspondence”, with Nicholas Cronk. Naming, Re-naming, Un-naming in Early Modern and Enlightenment Culture. Conference, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, November 2011.
• "Electronic Enlightenment?” Books Beyond Boundaries: A Symposium at Trinity College, Cambridge. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, November 2011.
• "Using PhiloLogic to Re-Edit and Analyze Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie". Disciplines and Technologies: Five New Projects. Center for Disciplinary Innovation Colloquium. Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, April 2011.
• "Beyond Word Search: Navigating the Digital Encyclopédie". Translating the Encyclopédie in the Global 18th Century. Conference, New York University, New York, NY, March 2011.
• "New Approaches to the Digital Encyclopédie". Colloquium on the Digital Encyclopédie. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, April 2010.
• "Le Triomphe de l’histoire littéraire et l’Affaire Dreyfus". Vie intellectuelle et vie littéraire en France 1900-1930. Seminar, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, October 2009.
• "Charles Péguy and the Politics of Modern Intellectualism". Interdisciplinary Workshop on Modern France, University of Chicago, Chicago IL, May 2009.

Presented Papers

• "Intertextuality and Influence in the Age of Enlightenment: Sequence Alignment Applications for Humanities Research". Digital Humanities 2012, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, July 2012. (abstract) (video)
• "Digital Humanities & the Case of Novel Reading". Writing Literary History Workshop. University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, July 2012.
• "The Dangers and Delights of Data Mining". Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, July 2012. (slides)
• "Dangerous Quotations: Citation Strategies in the Encyclopédie". 20th Annual Society for History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP) Conference, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, June 2012.
• "Présentation de la correspondance de J.-J. Rousseau dans Electronic Enlightenment". Seminar: Rousseau et le querelles de son temps. Maison Française d’Oxford - University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, June 2012.
• "Data Mining Applications for Literary Research”, Lunchtime Briefings on the Digital Humanities, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, May 2012.
• "From Machine de Guerre to Machine Learning: Data Mining the Digital Encyclopédie". International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) Congress, Graz, Austria, July 2011.
• "The Dangers and Delights of Data Mining: A Critical Approach to Machine Learning in the Humanities". Session: "Digging into Data: Computational Methods of Literary Research." Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, Los Angeles, CA, January 2011.
• "The Dictionary in Print and in the Cloud". Roundtable participant. Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, Los Angeles, CA, January 2011.
• "Encyclopedic Intertextuality: Identifying Intertextual Relationships in the Encyclopédie using Sequence Alignment". Knowledge Production, Technology, and Cultural Change: The Digital Encyclopédie. Conference, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, April 2009.
• "Sources of Enlightenment: Digital Intertextuality and the Encyclopédie". Encyclopedias and Encyclopedisms. Colloquium, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, March 2009.
• "Exploring Enlightenment: Machine Learning and Text Mining in the Encyclopédie” with Robert Voyer. The Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert: A Project for Enlightenment. Conference, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, March 2008.
• "The Ontology of the Encyclopédie: Knowledge Classification and Text Mining the French Enlightenment”, with Robert Voyer. Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, Chicago, IL, December 2007.
• "Mining Eighteenth Century Ontologies: Machine Learning and Knowledge Classification in the Encyclopédie”, with Russell Horton, Robert Morrissey, Mark Olsen, and Robert Voyer. Digital Humanities 2007, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, June 2007.
• "Data Mining the Digital Encyclopédie”, with Robert Voyer. Knowledge in the Age of Enlightenment: Producing the Encyclopédie. Colloquium, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, May 2007.

Co-authored papers

• "PAIR: Pairwise Alignment for Intertextual Relations”, with Russell Horton and Mark Olsen. Annual Meeting of the Society for Digital Humanities - Société pour l'étude des medias interactifs, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, May 2009.
• "Deconstructing Machine Learning: A Challenge for Digital Humanities”, with Charles Cooney, Russell Horton, Mark Olsen, and Robert Voyer. Digital Humanities 2008, University of Oulu, Finland, June 2008.
• "Re-engineering the Tree of Knowledge: Vector Space Analysis and Centroid-based Clustering in the Encyclopédie”, with Charles Cooney, Russell Horton, Robert Morrissey, Mark Olsen, and Robert Voyer. Digital Humanities 2008, University of Oulu, Finland, June 2008.
• "Hidden Roads and Twisted Paths: Intertextual Discovery using Clusters, Classifications, and Similarities”, with Charles Cooney, Russell Horton, Mark Olsen, and Robert Voyer. Digital Humanities 2008, University of Oulu, Finland, June 2008.
• "Feature Creep: Evaluating Feature Sets for Text Mining Literary Corpora”, with Charles Cooney, Russell Horton, Mark Olsen, and Robert Voyer. Digital Humanities 2008, University of Oulu, Finland, June 2008.
• "PhiloMine: An Integrated Environment for Humanities Text Mining”, with Charles Cooney, Russell Horton, Mark Olsen, and Robert Voyer. Digital Humanities 2008, University of Oulu, Finland, June 2008.
• "Extending PhiloLogic”, with Charles Cooney, Russell Horton, Mark Olsen, and Robert Voyer. Digital Humanities 2007, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, June 2007.

The University of Oxford (2011 - Present):
• Lecturer, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages
• Research Fellow, Oxford e-Research Centre
• Research Fellow, Wolfson College
Arizona State University (2010 - 2011):
• Faculty Associate, School of International Letters and Cultures
• Courses: French 311 Intermediate Conversation; French 312 Intermediate Composition.
The University of Chicago (2003 - 2008):
• Lecturer, Humanities Collegiate Division
• Courses: Beginning, intermediate, and advanced French language, culture, and literature.
• Course Instructor, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures
• Designed and taught advanced undergraduate French literature/culture seminar: French 295 - La France et l'Affaire Dreyfus (syllabus)
The Ohio State University (1997 - 1999):
• Graduate Teaching Associate, Department of French & Italian
• Courses: Beginning to intermediate French language and culture.

• Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities, University of Oxford (2011-2013). 2-year postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (current, principal investigator).
• Voltaire: Historian of the Modern World. Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Grant 2012-2015. Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford (requested, co-researcher).
• Dictionnaire Vivant de la Langue Francaise (DVLF): Expanding the French Dictionary. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Digital Humanities Start‐up Grant 2010. The ARTFL Project, University of Chicago (held, co-researcher).
• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship at a Digital Humanities Center 2009‐10. The ARTFL Project, University of Chicago (held, co-researcher).
• Provost’s Program for Academic Technology Innovation (ATI) grant to support PhiloMine machine learning framework 2008-9. The ARTFL Project, University of Chicago (held, co‐researcher).

• Summer Research Grant from the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago (Summer 2008)
• Mellon Teaching Assistantship: French 254/354, "New Approaches to the Encyclopédie” with Robert Morrissey, The University of Chicago (Winter 2008)
• Mellon Teaching Assistantship: French 274/374, "Le Roman français au XIXe siècle” with Thomas Pavel, The University of Chicago (Autumn 2005)
• Appointed by the faculty of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures to teach literature course for undergraduate majors in French, The University of Chicago (Autumn 2004)
• Four-Year Teaching Fellowship from the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, The University of Chicago (1999-2003)
• Two-Year Teaching Assistantship in French, The Ohio State University (1997-1999)

Outreach, Research and Development Associate, The ARTFL Project, University of Chicago (2012-present):

• Develop new digital resources and guide current research and development efforts through the exploration and establishment of collaborative digital projects in North America and Europe.

Technical Consultant, Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford (2012-present):

• Advise editors and researchers at the Voltaire Foundation on technical issues concerning resource digitization, text encoding, database creation and management, and digital humanities applications.

Senior Project Manager, The ARTFL Project, University of Chicago (2004 - 2011):

• Responsible for the overall management (text curation, maintenance, web development, etc.) of the ARTFL French language databases and digital reference collections, among the largest and most widely-used in North America. Designed and implemented new Drupal installations of both the ARTFL and the ARTFL Encyclopédie websites. Lead project manager on a number of important collaborative digital projects, including:
  • Balzac. La Comédie Humaine. Online critical edition of Balzac’s Comédie humaine, with La Maison de Balzac, Groupe international de recherches balzaciennes (GIRB), and Université Paris 7.
  • The Encyclopédie Méthodique, digitization project for the 200-volume 19th-century successor to the Encylcopédie, with the CNRS, Centre Jean Pépin UPR76.
  • The Bibliothèque Bleue de Troyes, with the Médiathèque de l’agglomération troyenne (MAT) and the Collaborative Initiative for French and North American Libraries (CIFNAL)
  • The Montaigne Project. Online edition of the Essais with digital page images of the Bordeaux copy, with Montaigne Studies, University of Chicago.
• On a more technical level, I worked closely with ARTFL programmers in the research, development, and implementation of PhiloLogic, ARTFL’s full-text search and retrieval system, and its extensions PhiloMine, an environment designed to perform a variety of text mining, machine learning, and document clustering tasks, and PhiloLine, a sequence alignment program. PhiloLogic (2006), PhiloMine (2008), and PhiloLine (2009) were released as open source software and have been well received by the digital humanities community.

• Advisory board, The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford (2011-12).
• Instructor, Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School, University of Oxford (2011-13).
• Member, IT-Services Sub-committee, Humanities Division, University of Oxford (2011-13).
• Editorial board, The Complete Works of Voltaire, Voltaire Foundation University of Oxford, 2011-13.
• Reviewer, SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the 18th-Century), University of Oxford, 2011-present.
• Reviewer, Annual international conference for digital scholarship in the humanities, Digital Humanities, sponsored by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) (2007 - Present).
• Editor-at-Large, Digital Humanities Now, 2012-present.
• Conference Coordinator, University of Chicago: "The Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert: A Project for Enlightenment” March 17-18, 2008.
• Student Coordinator, Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) (2006).
• Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Workshop on Modern France, University of Chicago (2005 - 2007).

• Modern Language Association (MLA)
• Association de l’Amitié Charles Péguy
• Society for French Studies (SFS)
• Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP)
• Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)
• The European Association for Digital Humanities (ALLC)

Human

• Native speaker of English; near-native fluency in French.
• Proficient in Spanish and Italian; reading knowledge of Latin and German.

Machine

• Proficiencies: CSS, Drupal, HTML, MySQL, PhiloLogic, TEI-XML, UNIX.
• Hobbies: Gephi, MALLET, Perl, Python, R.