I am an American-British educator, writer, and scholarly editor. I was born in Seattle in 1985. I received my PhD from Boston University, where I was supervised by the literary critic and editor Professor Sir Christopher Ricks.

(Image credit: Caio Mello, 2023).

After graduate school, I held postdoctoral fellowships and taught at the University of Maine, Boston University, and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. From 2014–2017 I then served as an associate editor at the Mark Twain Papers & Project at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2017 I moved to London to take up a lectureship at the Institute of English Studies, University of London. 

My current role is Senior Lecturer in Digital Approaches to Literature at the Institute of English Studies and Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. I have convened editing and book history courses on the London Rare Books School since 2018, and have lectured at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, the Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School, and the Digital Humanities Spring School at Freie Universität Berlin. I have served as a core faculty member of e-Laboratories, where I worked on the Fundamentals of Editing Course (formerly known as the Institute for Editing Historical Documents, or “Camp Edit”), which was released in summer 2023. Since 2025, I have also been serving as the Academic Champion for Research Integrity for the University of London.

My research focuses on textual scholarship, computation, and creative and critical methods for studying book history and literary texts with digital tools. I serve as the Associate Director of the Herman Melville Electronic Library and General Editor of Melville’s Marginalia Online. I have published widely on nineteenth and twentieth century literature, but I also venture beyond those periods occasionally. I also experiment with various digital methods to facilitate better access to, and knowledge of, cultural heritage, including network analysis, data analysis, and digital curation. My short book, Publishing Scholarly Editions: Archives, Computing, and Experience (2021), shows some of those experiments.

In 2023 I received an NEH-Mellon Fellowship to complete a digital edition of the anti-slavery literature anthology, The Bow in the Cloud (1834). Since 2025, I have been a Co-Lead on the AHRC-DFG-funded ‘Project StoryMachine’. This 3-year project will combine AI with a spatial hypertext system to explore folklore motifs in British and German folklore.

I am also working collaboratively to educate people on the environmental impact of digital research by coordinating the Green Digital Humanities Tool-kit group for the Digital Humanities Climate Coalition.

Recent Work

New Directions in Digital Textual Studies: Book History, Scholarly Editing and Curation in Conversation, co-edited with Kristen Schuster (2026).

Mary Anne Rawson’s The Bow in the Cloud (1834): A Scholarly Edition.

‘Digital Editing and Pedagogy: Making Editions / Building Arguments’, with John Bryant, Mary Isbell, and Mary Erica Zimmer. Scholarly Editing 41 (2024). https://doi.org/10.55520/KBS01GGN

Digital Humanities Climate Coalition Toolkit, with  Anne Baillot, Jenny Bunn, Michael Faerber, Charlotte Feideker, John Moore, Torsten Roeder, Martin Steer, Jo Lindsay Walton, Elizabeth Williamson.
Special issue of Textual Cultures on Creative-Critical Provocations, co-edited with Mathelinda Nabugodi.

A New Companion to Herman Melville, co-edited with Wyn Kelley (Wiley-Blackwell, 2022).
‘Poetry and Diffidence: A Brief History‘, Essays in Criticism 71.4 (October 2021), pp. 267–98.

For more works and details, see my CV.