Matthew Jockers, Lecturer Primary Office: 460-321 At Stanford Since: 2001 Email: mjockers@stanford.edu Current Year's Courses: Literary Studies and the Digital Library Degrees: B.A., Montana State Univeristy, 1989 M.A., University of Northern Colorado, 1993 Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, 1997 Titles: Academic Technology Specialist Executive Council, Association for Computers and the Humanities |
Matthew Jockers splits his time between Humanities Computing and Irish Studies. Much of his current work involves what he calls "macroanalysis," a sort of computer based text analysis designed for exploring large collections of literature. The approach has much in common with corpus linguistics and borrows from data-mining, but Jockers maintains a clear focus on how the approach can help us explore and answer literary questions. In Irish Studies, Jockers focuses on Irish-American fiction and is interested in the largely forgotten stories of Irish-Americans in the West. Recent publications include an essay profiling Kansas-Irish author Charles Driscoll and a survey of Irish-American literature in the San Francisco Bay Area. Jockers's database of Irish-American fiction is hosted by the Western Institute of Irish Studies In 2006-2007 Jockers was in residence at the Stanford Humanities Center as Research Scholar in the Digital Humanities. Links: Western Institute of Irish Studies Web Site |
