Matthew Jockers, Lecturer

Primary Office: 460-321
Office Hours: T/Th: 8:00-9:00am & by appt.
Office Phone: 650-796-4196

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

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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:

Jockers Web Site

Western Institute of Irish Studies Web Site

American Conference for Irish Studies Web Site

Academic Technology Specialist Program Web Site