April 2025
Follow-up on “AI and the Humanities”
A lively synthesis of the main threads that emerged during the Oregon Humanities Center panel discussion I participated in last spring with Colin Koopman and Ramón Alvarado.
March 2025
UO Today: Research Notes
As part of a new “In Case You Missed It” segment — revisiting faculty projects funded and/or profiled by the Oregon Humanities Center at the height of the pandemic — OHC Director Leah Middlebrook interviewed me about my 2021 monograph and how my research has evolved since the last time I was on the podcast.
September 2024
CAS Connection
The College of Arts and Science newsletter profiled my work directing the Minor in Digital Humanities as part of a feature on undergraduate programs preparing students for the careers of the future.
March 2024
Oregon Humanities Center: AI and the Humanities
I had a conversation with data ethicists Ramón Alvarado and Colin Koopman about the place of the human, humanity, and the humanities in conversations about artificial intelligence.
January 2024
The Daily Emerald
English major Sadie Tresnit wrote an opinion piece for the UO student paper about how we were dealing with generative AI in my upper-division eighteenth-century literature course, “Technologies of Empire.”
March 2023
Data is Plural: The Podcast
I had the great fun of talking with journalist Jeremy Singer-Vine about the data detective story behind the London Stage Database.
December 2022
Nightingale Magazine
Members of the Data Visualization Society did amazing, playful, thought-provoking things with the open datasets from the London Stage Database.
March 2022
R/18 Collective: Interview with the Author
Lisa Freeman and I talked about my book, Speculative Enterprise, and about R/18’s efforts to reactivate the long-eighteenth-century theatrical repertoire for twenty-first-century audiences.
May 2021
UO Today
I sat down with Paul Peppis, director of the Oregon Humanities Center, to talk about my new book and doing digital humanities at University of Oregon.
October 2019
The Economist
Data journalist James Tozer used the London Stage Database and UK Theatre Web to compare trending Shakespearean performances in the 18th century and the plays that dominate the stage today.
April 2018
Access Utah: Meaning and #MeToo
I had the privilege to participate in a panel discussion on the #MeToo movement hosted by the Philosophy department, after which my fellow panelists and I were guests on UPR’s morning program.
April 2017
Access Utah: Revisiting Jane Austen
Utah Public Radio host Tom Williams, Professor Brian McCuskey and I riffed on Jane Austen’s place in popular culture and the absolute bloodbath happening under the surface of every tea party. (Link directs to a repeat airing of the episode a year later)
