Excited to announce that next fall I'll start my PhD in Information Science at Cornell Bowers Computing and Information Science, where I will use NLP to investigate social and cultural questions🔍 Can't wait to work on cutting-edge research with amazing scholars✨

Delighted my essay on Reverse Imperial Ethnography and C.L.R. James is in the most recent issue of mModernity! muse.jhu.edu/article/795656

great new piece by Matthew Wilkens (@[email protected]) on US literary insularity that nicely dovetails with our piece on minor literature. US exceptionalism when it comes to national self-reflection is...a problem? culturalanalytics.org/article/25273-…

I'll be speaking twice this week at #ACH2021! 📚 Wed, 3:30pm CT: Panel on "Computational Approaches to Book Reviews" discussing work with Melanie Walsh 🤖 Fri, 3:30pm CT: Talk on "BERT for Humanists: Uses, Challenges, Translations" with Melanie Walsh, David Mimno, Matthew Wilkens (@[email protected])

Curious about large language models like BERT but haven't tried using them yet? Working with social media data? Join us for a new version of our tutorial "BERT for Social Sciences and Humanities" at #ICWSM2022! Info: bertforhumanists.org/icwsm/ Register: icwsm.org/2022/index.htm…

Congratulations to Dr Maria Antoniak on her successful defense!

Our freshly minted IS PhDs!!

Hiring TT positions in ethics, law, and policy in Info Sci Cornell Bowers Computing and Information Science at both Ithaca and NYC. It's a really exciting place to be, with great colleagues and students. Happy to chat with anyone who's interested. infosci.cornell.edu/career/hiring-…

Cornell Center for Data Science is hiring multiple NTT (3-year) assistant research professor positions. Applications due 10/31, but likely flexible. If interested, let me know and we can talk about sponsorship. Strong environment to do great work. datasciencecenter.cornell.edu/professorship-…

📢 we are calling for papers! 💡International Conference SFB 1288 "Praktiken des Vergleichens" "Comparing Landscapes: Approaches to Space & Affect in Literary Fiction" April 20-21, 2023 at ZiF Deadline 1 Feb 2023 #interdisciplinarity #literarystudies #dh comparing-landscapes.github.io

Researchers from Cornell Information Science want to know what sort of insights AI will unearth when leveraged for the humanities and are equipping scholars in those fields with machine learning skills to do just that. #CornellAI David Mimno Matthew Wilkens (@[email protected]) Read more: bit.ly/3ZKvhKx

Joint work with David Bamman (David Bamman) , Amanpreet Sihra, Matthew Wilkens (Matthew Wilkens (@[email protected])) , and Elizabeth F. Evans (Elizabeth Evans) with special thanks to Anna Ho and Mackenzie Cramer. Preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2305.17561 ; code and data at github.com/sandeepsoni/mo… 5/5

I'm hiring! Humanities Data Scientist at the National Endowment for the Humanities ($112k-$172k if working in DC; different if elsewhere). It's an opportunity to make a real difference in US-based humanities funding, research, & awareness. Share widely. usajobs.gov/job/735706500

"Grounding Characters and Places in Narrative Text" (led by Sandeep Soni), which infers the relationship between a character and location in fiction. Sandeep can't make it so I'll be presenting (9:30am 7/11). Come find collabs Matthew Wilkens (@[email protected]) Elizabeth Evans too! arxiv.org/pdf/2305.17561

Are you attending #ACL2023 and interested in cultural analytics? Joins us on Tuesday for a group conversation! We'll meet during the afternoon coffee hour at 3:45pm on the Lakeview Terrace. Matthew Wilkens (@[email protected]) David Bamman Lucy Li @jmendelsohn2

Have you heard of Shakespeare & Company, an English-language lending library in Paris? 📚 Did you know that their interwar records are digitized? 💻 We linked reading patterns of S&C patrons with Goodreads users to analyze literary canonization, reception, and friendships.

🚨New AI for Humanists tutorials just dropped!🚨 We have code notebooks for using LLMs to: - measure document similarity - classify texts with zero-shot prompting We explore narrativity in texts, historical & ChatGPT poetry, and book reviews. Tutorial effort led by Gregory Yauney!

The preprint of our (w/ Rosamond Thalken, Matthew Wilkens (@[email protected]) and Dr. Pepin) study on 🎀 Endometriosis Online Communities is here! ✨I am incredibly proud of this project. Give it a read! 🤓 I bet you'll find it as meaningful as I do.