Curriculum Vitae

Employment

Current Positions

Professor, Literary and Textual Studies, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Australian National University (2020–)
Future Fellow, Australian Research Council and Australian National University (2018–2023)
Chief Investigator, Humanising Machine Intelligence, Australian National University (2023–) 
Visiting Research Fellow, King’s Digital Lab, King’s College London (2019–24)

Previous Positions

College of Experts, Australian Research Council, Department of Education and Training (2019–2021)
Associate Professor, Literary and Textual Studies, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Australian National University (2016–2017)
Head, Centre for Digital Humanities Research, Centre for Digital Humanities Research, Australian National University (2011–2013)
Senior Lecturer in Literary and Textual Studies, Centre for Digital Humanities Research, Australian National University (2011–2015)
Lecturer, School of English, Journalism and European Languages, University of Tasmania (2009–2010)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian Research Council Fellowship, Department of English, University of Sydney (2007–2009)
PhD Candidate and Tutor, School of English, Journalism and European Languages, University of Queensland (2002–2005)

Qualifications

PhD in English, University of Queensland, 2006
Bachelor of Arts (English), First Class Honours, James Cook University, 2000
Graduate Certificate in Education (Higher Education), University of Sydney, 2008

Grants and Awards

Australian Research Council Grants

Discovery Project ($315,712) (with Professor Ronan McDonald and Associate Professor Maggie Nolan) “Close relations: Irishness in Australian literature”, Australian Research Council (2023–25)
Special Research Initiative Grant ($290,606) (with Dr Roger Osborne and Alison Dellit) “Read all about it: Digital participation in 20th-century Australian newspaper fiction”, Australian Research Council (2021–24)
Future Fellowship ($949,780) “Reading at the Interface: Literatures, Cultures, Technologies”, Australian Research Council (2018–23) 
Discovery Project ($261,000) “‘To Be Continued’: Exploring the World of Novels in Colonial Periodicals”, Australian Research Council (2013–16)
Discovery Project ($665,675) (as APD, Australian Postdoctoral Research Fellow, with Professors Leigh Dale, Robert Dixon and Gillian Whitlock) “Resourceful Reading: New Archives for Australian Literature”, Australian Research Council (2007–10)

Other Grants (External)

Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes (CHCI) Global Humanities Institute (US$222,000) Co-Principal Investigator, “Design Justice AI” (2023-24)
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Planning for International Collaboration Grant (US$24,970) Lead International Collaborator, “Unboxing AI” (2021–22)
Rutgers International Collaborative Research Grant (US$8,000) Principal Applicant ANU, “Ethical AI Through Data Curation” (2021)
King’s Australia Partnership Seed Fund (£3,165) Project Member, “Critical Modeling Workshop”, Menzies Centre, King’s College London (2020)
Melbourne Education Research Institute Strategic Funding ($30,000) Project Member, “Future English: Investigating Australian Literary Study in the Digital Age” (2019)
Temporal Communities Freie University Fellowship (€15,000) “Literary Apparatuses: Reading and Computing” (2019)
Australian Bicentennial Fellowship King’s College London (£4,000) (2013)
Travel Bursary (£500) Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (2012)
Travel Bursary (€500) Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing)
Travelling Scholarship ($80,776) Awarded to the Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) applicant with the highest ranking of all applicants across the University, University of Queensland (2002–2005)

Other Grants (Internal)

Workshop Grant ($4,800) Project Leader, “(Bush)ranging through the (digital) archives”, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University (ANU) (2022)
Workshop Grant ($7,991) Project Leader, “Seeing Australian Literature Through New Eyes: A Collaborative Workshop for Academics, Teachers and Editors”, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University (ANU) (2020)
Global Research Partnerships Scheme ($33,000) Lead Applicant, Office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation), ANU (2020)
Strategic Funding ($21,000) Supervisor, “Visualising Australian Literary History,” ANU (2019-2021)
Strategic Funding ($10,000) Project Lead, Crowdsourcing To be continued, ANU (2019)
External Visitor Support ($2,832) Lead Applicant, “An Australasian Network for Digital Literary Studies”, ANU (2018)
Strategic Funding ($10,000) Project Lead, To be continued website security, ANU (2018)
Small Grant Scheme ($6,600) Project Lead, “Modelling Australian Literary Criticism”, ANU (2017)
Small Grant Scheme ($9,838) Project Lead, “Discovering Worlds: Building Community Engagement with the History of Australian Newspaper Novels”, ANU (2015)
Pilot Project Grant ($3,200) Project Lead, “Colonial Periodicals: Mapping a Transnational Literary System”, ANU (2011)
Education Committee Funding ($850) Project Lead, “Surveying Digital Humanities Teaching”, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU (2010)
Teaching Improvement and Equipment Scheme (TIES) Grant ($4,360) Project Member, “Preventing Plagiarism: Ethical Academic Writing”, University of Sydney (2009)

Prizes, Awards, Honours and Fellowships

Elected Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities (2020–; ongoing)
Appointed Fellow, Research Leaders’ Program, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University (2021–2022; 1 year)
Research Residency, University of Virginia (2020; 1 month)
Visiting Research Fellowship, King’s Digital Lab, King’s College London (2019–2021; 2 years)
Senior Research Fellowship, “Temporal Communities” Cluster of Excellence, Freie University Berlin (2019; 3 months)
Think/Play/Hack Fellowship, Interdisciplinary Data Science Summit, Taos New Mexico (2019, 1 week) 
Walter McRae Russell Award (Shortlisted), 2018, Association for the Study of Australian Literature (for the best book of literary scholarship on an Australian subject published in the proceeding two calendar years)
Literary Scholarship Award (Shortlisted), 2018, Australian University Heads of English (for the best book of literary scholarship, published by an Australian-based author, in the last twelve months)
Outstanding Early Career Alumni Award (Awarded), 2014, James Cook University (to recognise graduates of the university who have made an outstanding contribution in their field of endeavour; citation)
Australian Bicentennial Fellowship, 2013, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies and English Department, King’s College London (3 months)
Walter McRae Russell Award (Shortlisted), 2013, Association for the Study of Australian Literature (for the best book of literary scholarship on an Australian subject published in the proceeding two calendar years)
Fortier Prize (Shortlisted), 2012, Association of Digital Humanities Organisations (for the best paper by a young scholar/early stage researcher at each annual conference)
Dean’s Commendation List for Outstanding Research Higher Degree Theses (Awarded), 2006, University of Queensland (for those few PhD and MPhil graduates whose theses are judged by their assessors to be outstanding and making major contributions to their field of research)
University Medal (Awarded), 2000, James Cook University (for outstanding academic achievement in both coursework studies and research undertaken at undergraduate level)
Graduate Association Medal (Awarded), 2000, James Cook University (for a graduating student who during their course of study has displayed a high level of academic achievement and made an outstanding contribution to the University community through activities such as sport, cultural activities or student welfare)
Undergraduate awards including: P. F. Rowland Memorial Prize (2000); Townsville Bulletin Prize for English Honours (2000); Brian Unkles Prize (1999); Colin Roderick Prize B for Australian Literature (1999); Jessie Mary Vasey Prize (1999); Colin Roderick Prize A for Australian Literature (1998); Douglas Suthers Memorial Prize (1998)

Editorial and Advisory

Editorial Positions

2021–. Associate Editor, Digital Humanities, Critical AI, Duke University Press
2019–. Series Co-Editor, Cambridge University Press’s Elements of Digital Literary Studies Series
2017–. Series Editor, To be continued (series of newly discovered Australian fiction), Obiter Press 
2015–19. Series Co-Editor, Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture, Anthem Press
2011. Acting Reviews Editor, Australian Literary Studies

Editorial Boards

2021–. Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures, Bloomsbury
2019–. Journal of Computational Literary Studies, University of Potsdam
2020–. Humanist
2019–. Post45 Data Collective
2019–. International Journal of Digital Humanities 
2015–. Journal of Cultural Analytics 
2015–. Australian Literary Studies 
2015–. Book History and Print Culture Series, Anthem Press (2015–)
2011–14. Literary and Linguistic Computing 

Advisory Boards

2021–22. Advisory Group, ARDC & Learned Academies Data Network Project, Australian Academy of the Humanities
2021–. Advisory Board, Electronic Enlightenment, Centre for Digital Scholarship and Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
2021–. Advisory Board, Yaangarra (Paperbark Project), Building Digital Capacity for the Teaching of Indigenous Literature, University of Wollongong
2018–24. Advisory Board, Australian Studies Institute (ASI), Australian National University
2017–20. Advisory Board, WhatEvery1Says (WE1S) Mellon-Funded Project.

Publications

Monographs (here for links to full text, excerpted reviews, and datasets)

Under contract. Literary Apparatuses: How Literature Matters. Stanford University Press. 
2018. A World of Fiction: Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press. 
2012. Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field. London: Anthem Press.
2008. Damaged Men/Desiring Women: Male Bodies in Contemporary Australian Women’s Fiction. Germany: VDM.

Major Digital Publications

2017. with Carol Hetherington. To Be Continued: The Australian Newspaper Fiction Database. http://cdhrdatasys.anu.edu.au/tobecontinued/
2012. Reading by Numbers dataset. AustLit: Research and Publications. https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/5960620

Edited Collections

2018. with Imelda Whelehan. Christmas Eve in a Gum Tree and Other Forgotten Australian Stories. Canberra: Obiter Press.
2017. “How I Pawned My Opals” and Other Lost Stories by Catherine Martin. Canberra: Obiter Press.
2014. with Paul Arthur. Advancing Digital Humanities: Research, Methods, Theory. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
2009. with Robert Dixon. Resourceful Reading: The New Empiricism, eResearch and Australian Literary Culture. Sydney: Sydney University Press.
2006. with Leigh Dale. Special Issue on Reading. Australian Literary Studies 22.3.

Refereed Journal Articles (here for links to full text and datasets)

Forthcoming 2023. “What’s the Matter with Computational Literary Studies?” Critical Inquiry (Summer). Accepted February 2021. 
Forthcoming 2023. “Doing (Computational) Literary Studies.” New Literary History. Accepted April 2022. 
2020. with Larissa McLean Davies, Susan Martin and Wayne Sawyer. “Reading in the (post)digital age: Large digital databases and the future of literature in secondary classrooms.” English in Education 54.3.
2020. “Why You Can’t Model Away Bias.” Modern Language Quarterly 81.1: 95-124.
2017. “Fictional Systems: Mass-Digitisation, Network Analysis, and Nineteenth-Century Australian Newspapers.” Victorian Periodicals Review 50.1: 100-38.
2017. “The Equivalence of ‘Close’ and ‘Distant’ Reading; or, Toward a New object for Data-Rich Literary History.” Modern Language Quarterly 78.1: 77-106.
2016. “Thousands of Titles Without Authors: Digitized Newspapers, Serial Fiction, and the Challenges of Anonymity.” Book History 18.
2014. with Carol Hetherington. “Retrieving a World of Fiction: Building an Index, and Full-text Archive, of Serialised Novels in Australian Newspapers.” Script & Print 38.4 (2014): 197-211. [Republished 2015. The Indexer 33.2 (June): 57-65.]
2012. with Leigh Dale. “‘Bullshit’, an Australian Story; or What an Organisational Change Impact Statement Tells Us About Higher Education in Australia.” Australian Humanities Review 53.
2012. “‘Sidelines’ and Tradelines: Publishing the Australian Novel, 1860 to 1899.” Book History 5: 93–122.
2011. “‘we’re not truckin’ around’: On and off-road in Samuel Wagan Watson’s Smoke Encrypted Whispers.” Humanities Research XVIII.2: 109-19.
2010. “Publishing and Australian Literature: Crisis, Decline or Transformation?” Cultural Studies Review 16.2: 24-48.
2009. “Along Gender Lines: Reassessing Relationships between Australian Novels, Gender and Genre from 1930 to 2006.” Australian Literary Studies 24.3-4: 79–95.
2008. “Graphically Gendered: A Quantitative Study of the Relationships between Australian Novels and Gender from the 1830s to the 1930s.” Australian Feminist Studies 23.58: 435–50.
2008. “‘Opportunistic Transpositions and Elisions’: Roger McDonald’s The Ballad of Desmond Kale; or, The Fiction Question: Who Owns Stories?” Antipodes 22.2: 89–95.
2008. “Beyond the Colonial Present: Quantitative Analysis, “Resourceful Reading” and Australian Literary Studies.” JASAL Special Issue: The Colonial Present edited by Gillian Whitlock and Victoria Kuttainen: 184–97.
2006. “‘Unexpected Effects’: Marked Men in Contemporary Australian Women’s Fiction.” Australian Literary Studies 22.4 (2006): 443–59.
2006. “Aussie Battler in Crisis? Shifting Constructions of White Australian Masculinity and National Identity.” Journal of the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association 2.1: 1–18. [Republished 2009. Creative Nation: Australian Cinema and Cultural Studies Reader. Ed. Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal. New Delhi: SSS Publications. 337–57.]
2006. “Reading (in/and) Miranda.” Australian Literary Studies 22.3: 357–67.
2001. “The Pregnant Man: Gender, Identity and Sexuality in the Poetry of Dorothy Porter’s ‘Akhenaten’.” LiNQ 28.1: 22–29.

Book Chapters (here for links to full text and datasets)

In press. With Sarah Galletly and Carol Hetherington. “Beyond the Book and British Domination.” Cambridge History of the Australian Novel. Ed. David Carter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
In press. “The Archive.” The Cambridge Companion to Literature in the Digital Age. Ed. Adam Hammond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2021. “Data Worlds: Patterns, Structures, Libraries.” The Cambridge History of World Literature. Ed. Debjani Ganguly. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2019. “‘Large, Vigorous and Thriving’: Early Australian Publishing and Futures of Publishing Studies.” Legacies of Publishing. Ed. Aaron Mannion and Millicent Weber. Melbourne: Monash University Press. 
2017. “From Adelaide to Genoa: Locating Catherine Martin’s Lost Fiction.” “How I Pawned My Opals” and Other Lost Stories by Catherine Martin. Ed.  Katherine Bode. Canberra: Obiter Press.
2017. “Book History in Australia since 1950.” Oxford History of the Novel in English: The Novel in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the South Pacific since 1950. Ed. Coral Howells, Paul Sharrad and Gerry Turcotte. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2014. with Paul Arthur. “Collecting Ourselves.” Advancing Digital Humanities: Research, Methods, Theory. Ed. Paul Arthur and Katherine Bode. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
2014. with Tara Murphy. “Methods and Canons: A Data-Rich Approach to Literary Reputations.” Advancing Digital Humanities: Research, Methods, Theory. Ed. Paul Arthur and Katherine Bode. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
2014. with Roger Osborne. “Book History from the Archival Record.” Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book. Ed. Leslie Howsam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2010. “Looking (im)properly: Women Objectifying Men’s Bodies in Contemporary Australian Women’s Fiction.” Women Constructing Men. Ed. Sarah Frantz and Katharina Rennhak. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. 185–206.
2009. “From British Domination to Multinational Conglomeration? A Revised History of Australian Novel Publishing, 1950 to 2007.” Resourceful Reading: The New Empiricism, eResearch and Australian Literary Culture, edited by Katherine Bode and Robert Dixon. Sydney: Sydney University Press. 194–219. [Republished 2012: Sold by the Millions: Australia’s Bestsellers. Ed. Amit Sarwal and Toni Johnson-Woods. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 22-45.]
2009. with Robert Dixon. “Resourceful Reading: A New Empiricism in the Digital Age?” Resourceful Reading: The New Empiricism, eResearch and Australian Literary Culture. Ed. Katherine Bode and Robert Dixon. Sydney: Sydney University Press. 1–27.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

2015. with Mark Towsey, Simon Burrows, Julieanne Lamond, Mark Reid, Glenn Roe, and Sydney Shep. “Remapping Cultural History? Digital Humanities, Historical Bibliometrics, and the Reception of Print Culture.” Proceedings of Digital Humanities 2015, Sydney, Australia, 2015. 
2014. “Mining a ‘Trove’: Modeling a Transnational Literary Culture.” Digital Humanities 2014. University of Lausanne, July 16-22. Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. 98-100. [here]
2012. “Modeling Gender: The ‘Rise and Rise’ of the Australian Woman Novelist.” Digital Humanities 2012. University of Hamburg, July 16-22. Hamburg: Hamburg University Press. 119-20. [here]

Other Publications

2021. “The Difference an Editor Makes.” Modern Language Quarterly 82.3: 401–404. 
2020. “Data beyond representation: From computational modeling to performative materiality.” Blog: Katherine Bode. 10 January.
2019. “Day 3 Response.” Computational Literary Studies: A Critical Inquiry Online Forum. 3 April.
2019. “Day 2 Response.” Computational Literary Studies: A Critical Inquiry Online Forum. 3 April.
2019. “Day 1 Response.” Computational Literary Studies: A Critical Inquiry Online Forum. 3 April.
2018. “To Be Continued: Discovering Serialised Fiction in Trove’s Digitised Newspapers.” National Library of Australia Blog, 28 February.
2017. “A Response to Some Responses.” Blog: Katherine Bode. 28 June.
2017. “Literature as Olympic Event? Understanding the Scoreboard for Australian Women’s Writing.” eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 16.2: online.
2016. “Digital Scholarship Futures.” Celebrating Independent Thought: ISAA Twenty Years On. 2015 Conference Proceedings. Canberra: Independent Scholars’ Association of Australia.
2015. “‘To Be Continued’: A World of Novels in Australian Newspapers.” Island Magazine 141 (June).
2014. “Rev. of A New Republic of Letters: Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction, by Jerome McGann. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2014.” Archives and Manuscripts. [here]
2008. “Divergent Convergences: Manifesting Literary Feminisms Conference. Monash University and the University of Queensland, 13-14 December, 2007.” Australian Feminist Studies 23.58 (December): 549–50.

Presentations

Keynotes

2022. “Too big to small: How Scale Matters.” Small Data Is Beautiful Symposium. University of Melbourne. 18–19 February. 
2020. “What’s the matter with computational literary studies.” Interface workshop. Freie University Berlin. 4–6 November. 
2020. “From Text to Database: Digital Literacy at Scale.” International Federation for the Teaching of English / Australian Association for the Teaching of English conference. Sydney. 7–10 July.
2019. “Reading (as) Data: Modeling Transnational Literary Engagements.” Doing Literature in a Global Perspective Conference. Freie Universität, Berlin. 24–26 October.
2019. “Building Literary Worlds: Corpus Construction Beyond Representation.” COST Action for Distant Reading Training Camp. 23–25 September.
2019. “Reading History in the Mass-digitised Age: Opportunities and Challenges.” Reading Culture and Libraries in Change Conference. University of Turku, Finland. 22–23 May.
2019. “Digital Collections: Archival and Editorial Impulses Remixed.” Institute of Professional Editors Conference. Pullman Melbourne on the Park, Melbourne. 8–10 May.
2019. “Reading Beyond the Book.” World Book Day Lecture. Otago University Centre for the Book, New Zealand. 7 March.
2018. “Communications Circuits and Interdisciplinary ‘Riots’ in the Digital (Humanities) Age.” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing annual conference: ‘From First to Last Texts, Creators, Readers, Agents’. University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia. 2 July.
2017. “‘Large, Vigorous and Thriving’: Legacies and Futures of Australian Publishing.” Independent Publishing Conference. Small Press Network, Melbourne, Australia. 16 November.

Plenary Panels

2018. with Denise Meredyth, Penelope Aitken, Dennis Del Favero and Joanne Tompkins. “Digital Humanities in the Era of Linkage, Impact, Engagement and Innovation.” Digital Humanities Australasia 2018. University of South Australia, Adelaide. 25–28 September.
2018. with Rosalind Smith, Tully Barnett, Rachel Hendery, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, and William Pascoe. “New Directions in Digital Humanities Infrastructure: Adventures in Collaboration and Scale.” Digital Humanities Australasia 2018. University of South Australia, Adelaide. 25–28 September.
2017. with Anne Brewster, Beth Driscoll, Ken Gelder, Anna Johnston, Sue Kossew, Jeanine Leane and Nicole Moore. “The ARC and Australian Literary Studies.” Association for the Study of Australian Literature annual conference. LaTrobe University, Melbourne. 14 July.
2016. with Leigh Dale, Carol Ferrier, Sarah Holland-Batt, Victoria Kuttainen and Ariella Van Luyn. “Looking Forward/Looking Back: Writing Women in Australia.” Foundation for Australian Literary Studies 50th Anniversary Town Hall Forum. James Cook University, Townsville. 18 October.

Invited Panels

2021. “Australian Literature – and AustLit – Beyond the Book.” AustLit 20th Anniversary Panel. University of Queensland. 15 November. 
2021. “DH and Research Design” with Ray Simens and Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller. Australasian Consortium of Humanities Researchers and Centres series on Digital Humanities. Online. 24 September.
2020. “MLQ and the Project of Literary History” with Jonathan Arac, Jed Esty, Barbara Fuchs, Sharon Marcus, and Susan Wolfson. Modern Language Association Convention. Seattle. 9–12 January.
2020. “Databases and Print Culture Studies” with Lise Jaillant, Richard Jean So and Ted Underwood. Modern Language Association Convention. Seattle. 9–12 January.
2019. “Laboratories of the Humanities: Researchers, Collections and Australia’s Past, Present and Future” with Kylie Brass and Alison Dellitt. Museums Galleries Australia National Conference, Alice Springs. 14–17 May.
2018. “Ethics of Social Media Data Panel” with Robert Ackland, Daniel Angus and Jenny Davis. Digital Societies? New Frontiers in Social Research, Canberra. 11 September.
2018. “Reading/Australia/Now: Australian Reception Network Roundtable” with Ika Willis, Jennifer Clement, Tom Clark, Julieanne Lamond, Simone Murray and Maggie Nolan. 2018 Literary Studies Convention, Canberra. 3–7 July.
2018. “Discovering history at scale through Trove” with Hilary Berthon, Garrick Hitchcock, Mark Finnane and Helen Morgan. Australian Historical Association Annual Conference 2018: “The Scale of History”, Canberra. 2–6 July.
2015. “Scholarship Futures” with Roxanne Missingham and Colin Steele. Independent Scholars of Australia Conference. National Library of Australia, Canberra. 1–2 October.
2015. “Remapping Cultural History? Digital Humanities, Historical Bibliometrics, and the Reception of Print Culture” with Mark Towsey, Simon Burrows, Julieanne Lamond, Mark Reid, Glenn Roe and Sydney Shep. Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Conference, Sydney. 29 June–3 July.

Invited Presentations

2022. “To be continued: The Australian Newspaper Fiction Database as Literary History, Digital Infrastructure, and Public Practice.” Nanyang Technical University, Singapore. 17 February. 
2021. “Reading and Reception Studies.” Interdisciplinary Study Circle Lecture Series, “Parley 2021.” University of Gour Banga. 15 March 
2020. “Literary History with Mass-digitized Collections.” Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Seminar Series, Indian Institute of Technology, 10 November.
2020. “Computational Modeling: From Data Representation to Performative Materiality.” Animating Text Series. University of Newcastle and Institute of English Studies, University of London. 26/27 November.
2020. “Archive and Empire/Digital and Material: A Lunch-Time Conversation with Kath Bode and Jason Rudy.” Rutgers University. 30 January.
2020. “DH Futures.” Rutgers University. 30 January.
2020. “Why You Can’t Model Away Bias.” Sawyer Seminar Series. University of Pittsburgh. 28 January.
2020. “Reading (as) Data: Literary History with Mass-digitized Collections.” University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie-Mellon University. 27 January.
2020. “What’s the matter with digital literary studies? The case against “The computational case against computational literary criticism’.” University of Virginia. 22 January.
2020. “Lunchtime book discussion: A World of Fiction.” University of Virginia, 21 January.
2019. “Reading (in) the Past: Literary History with Mass-digitized Collections.” Wülzburg University. 30 October.
2019. “Literary history with mass-digitised collections: Reading (in) the past.” HumLab Lecture Series, Umëa University. 13 December.
2019. “Transformative Encounters: Digital Humanities and Book History.” WeChangeEd Lecture Series, Ghent University. 20 November.
2019. “What’s the matter with digital literary studies?” Digital Humanities Symposium, Cardiff University. 29 May.
2019. “What’s the matter with digital literary studies?” King’s Digital Lab Seminar Series, King’s College London, 28 May. 
2018. “What is reading?” What is a Document? A workshop on documentation, records and evidence. Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney. 8–9 November.
2018. “The future of literary history: Mass-digitized collections, literary data, and American fiction in the Antipodes.” TXTLab, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. 4 May.
2018. “Mass-digitisation and textual studies; an Australian case study.” Centre for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, Loyola University Chicago. 1 May.
2018. “Mass-digitization and literary history: Sustaining discoveries and building communities.” Information School, University of Illinois. 27 April.
2018. “The future of literary history: Mass-digitized collections, literary data, and American fiction in the Antipodes.” Department of English and DH@UVA, University of Virginia. 24 April.
2015. “‘Distant Reading’ as ‘Close Reading’; or, How to Escape Hermetic Hermeneutics in Approaching Digital Archives.” University of Technology. 23 October.
2014. “Digital Humanities and Digitised Newspapers: The Australian Story’. Digital Scholarship Group Seminar Series. Northeastern University Boston. 30 September.
2014. “New Literary Histories: The Digitisation of Print Culture and Transformation of the Archive.” English Department Seminar Series. King’s College London. 16 June.
2012. “Reading Between the Lines: A Big-data Approach to Australian Literary History.” What is Digital Humanities? Symposium, University of Queensland. 1-2 November.
2011. “Novel knowledge: Australian Fiction, AustLit and the Digital Humanities.” New Directions in Digital Humanities Seminar Series, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London. 10 November.
2010. “Mining the Field: Speed Reading in the Digital Age.” The Life of Information Symposium. Australian National University, Canberra. 24 September.
2010. “Australian Publishing: A Trans/National Concern.” Menzies Centre, University of London. 17 February.
2009. “Australian Publishing: A National Interest?” Literature, Identity and Culture Research Group Seminar Series. Wollongong University. 28 May.
2008. “Transition: PhD to Academic.” Professional Development Panel. Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association (SUPRA) Annual Conference. University of Sydney. 2 October.

Conference Papers

2019. with Larissa McLean Davies and Wayne Sawyer. “Possibilities for Agency? Exploring the interface of digital humanities and L1 literary eduction.” ARLE: International Association for Research in L1 Education, Lisbon. 26–28 June.
2018. with Victoria Riddell. “From Scarcity to Abundance: Reciprocity and its Rewards.” eResearch Australasia 2018. Pullman Melbourne Albert Part, Melbourne. 15–19 October.
2018. with Geoff Hinchcliffe. “To be continued: Collections as collaborations.” Digital Humanities Australasia 2018. University of South Australia. 25–28 September.
2018. “Australian literature at the interface of readers, cultures, and technologies.” Literary Studies Convention. Australian National University. 3–7 July.
2018. with Larissa McLean Davies, Philip Mead and Sue Martin. “Active Interfacing: Digital Humanities and Secondary English Teaching.” Literary Studies Convention, Canberra. 3–7 July.
2015. “Networks of Literary Works.” Literary Studies Convention. University of Wollongong. 7-12 July.
2014. “Mining a ‘Trove’: Modeling a Transnational Literary Culture.” Digital Humanities 2014. University of Lausanne. 7-11 July.
2013. with Carol Hetherington. “A World of Stories in Colonial Periodicals.” Country. Association for the Study of Australian Literature Annual Conference. Charles Sturt University. 3–5 July.
2012. “Modeling Gender: The ‘Rise and Rise’ of the Australian Woman Novelist.” Digital Diversity. Digital Humanities 2012. University of Hamburg. July 16-22.
2012. “Multi/National Publishing and the Australian Novel: Redrawing the Battle Lines?” The Battle for Books. Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing Conference. Trinity College Dublin. 26-29 June.
2011. “Reading Data in Search of Readers.” Australian Literature: Field, Curriculum, Emotion. Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) Annual Conference. University of Melbourne. 5–8 July.
2011. “Beyond the Book: Publishing the Nineteenth Century Australian Novel.” The Long Twentieth Century. Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing Conference. University of Queensland. 28-30 April.
2010. with Tara Murphy. “Methods and Canons: An Interdisciplinary Excursion.” Archive Madness. Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) Annual Conference. University of New South Wales. 7–10 July.
2010. “‘we’re not truckin’ around’: on the road with Samuel Wagan Watson.” Southwest Texas Popular and American Culture Association 31^st Annual Conference. Albuquerque, 10–13 February.
2008. “What Have Numbers Got To Do With Literary Studies?” Early Career Research Showcase. University of Sydney. 1 October.
2008. “Australian Literature: Crisis, Decline, Phase or Transformation?” Changing Australia. British Australian Studies Association (BASA) Annual Conference. Royal Holloway, University of London. 1–5 September.
2008. “Graphic Novels: Australian Literature/World Literature?” Resourceful Reading Panel. Australian Literature in a Global World. Association for the Study of Australian Literature Annual Conference. University of Wollongong. 29 June–2 July.
2007. “Novel Gender Trends: Quantitative Models of the Relationship Between Gender, Novels and Criticism in Australian Literary History.” Manifesting Literary Feminisms Conference. Monash University. 13–14 December.
2007. “Reading from a Distance: The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Statistical Analysis in Australian Literary Studies.” The Colonial Present. Association for the Study of Australian Literature Annual Conference. University of Queensland. 1–4 July.
2003. “Men in Pain: Disruptive Male Bodies in Australian Women’s Fiction.” Culture Incorporated. Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA) Annual Conference. University of Canterbury. December 6–8.

Education

Course and Program Reviews

2019. Internal Reviewer. Classics Program, Australian National University
2019. External Reviewer. English Major, Australian Catholic University
2014. External Reviewer. Minor in Digital Practice/Graduate Certificate in Digital Arts and Humanities, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
2012. External Reviewer. Digital Humanities Programme, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Program and Course Development

2017. Literary Studies in the Digital Age (2nd Year Course), Australian National University
2015. Digital Humanities: Projects and Theories (2nd Year Course), Australian National University
2014. With Glenn Roe, Digital Humanities Specialisation in the Masters of Digital Humanities and Public Culture (Masters Program), Australian National University
2014. With Glenn Roe, Major and Minor in Digital Humanities in the Bachelor of Arts (Undergraduate Program), Australian National University
2012. Digital Humanities: Projects and Theories (Masters Course), Australian National University
2010. Australian Masculinities (Honours Course), University of Tasmania
2009. Postcolonial Fiction (2nd Year Course), University of Tasmania

Teaching

2023. Guest Lecturer. Creative Reading, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Australian National University
2018. Guest Lecturer. Digital Humanities: Projects and Theories, Centre for Digital Humanities Research, Australian National University
2017. Convenor, Lecturer, Tutor. Literature in the Digital Age, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Australian National University
2017. Convenor, Lecturer, Tutor. Contemporary Australian Writing, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Australian National University
2017. Guest Lecturer. Digital Humanities: Projects and Theories, Centre for Digital Humanities Research, Australian National University
2017. Guest Lecturer. Doing Research, PhB program, Australian National University
2015. Lecturer, Tutor. Digital Humanities: Projects and Theories, Centre for Digital Humanities Research, Australian National University
2015. Guest Lecturer, Museums and Collections: Key Concepts and Practices, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University
2014. Convenor, Seminar Facilitator. Digital Humanities: Projects and Theories, Centre for Digital Humanities Research, Australian National University
2012. Convenor, Seminar Facilitator. Digital Humanities: Projects and Theories, Centre for Digital Humanities Research, Australian National University
2011. Convenor, Lecturer, Tutor. Contemporary Australian Writing, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Australian National University
2010. Convenor, Seminar Facilitator. Australian Masculinities, University of Tasmania
2009. Course Convenor, Lecturer, Tutor. Postcolonial Fiction, University of Tasmania
2009. Lecturer, Tutor. Australian Texts/International Contexts, University of Sydney
2009. Guest Lecturer. Magazines and Australian Print Culture, University of Sydney
2008. Lecturer, Tutor. Australian Texts/International Contexts, University of Sydney
2008. Guest Lecturer. Literary Theory A, University of Sydney
2007. Tutor. Academic Writing and Rhetoric, University of Sydney
2005. Online Tutor. Academic Writing, University of Queensland
2004. Tutor. Academic Writing, University of Queensland
2003. Tutor. Renaissance Literature, University of Queensland
2002. Tutor. Contemporary Australian Literature, University of Queensland
2001. Convenor, Seminar Facilitator. UNIPREP, James Cook University

Mentoring Programs and Presentations

2022. Presenter, “ARC College of Experts.” College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University. 14 February
2020. Presenter, “ARC Future Fellowships: Experiences, Insights and Perspectives Panel.” University of South Australia. 22 September
2020. Presenter, “ARC Assessment Process and Observations: Panel and Q&A.” Research Services Division, Australian National University. 19 August
2020. Presenter, “ECR Workshop on Grant Writing.” Association for the Study of Australian Literature Annual Conference. 29 June. 
2018–20. Mentor, Network for Early Career Academics Mentoring Scheme, Australian National University
2018. Member, Future Fellowship Peer Review Panel, College of Arts and Social Sciences and College of Health and Medicine, Australian National University
2018. Presenter, Australian Research Council Fellowship’s ROPE Section, Research School of Population Health’s Equity and Diversity Committee, Australian National University
2018. Presenter, Future Fellowship Workshop, Network for Early Career Academics, Australian National University, Canberra
2018. Presenter, PhD to Present: HASS Panel, Australian National University Research Services. Australian National University
2010. Participant, Leadership Program, Australian National University
2010. Presenter, Postdoctoral Fellowships Workshop, Association for the Study of Australian Literature Annual Conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney
2009. Co-convenor, Academic Honesty, Postgraduate Professional Development Course, University of Sydney
2008. Presenter, Getting Started on Your Research Project, Department of English, University of Sydney
2008. Presenter, Transition: PhD to Academic, Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association Annual Conference, University of Sydney
2008. Presenter, Postdoctoral Opportunities, Advanced Postgraduates’ and Early Career Researchers’ Seminar Series, Department of English, University of Sydney
2008. Presenter, Conceptualising Your Research Project, Early Postgraduate Seminar Series, Department of English, University of Sydney

Research Supervisions

Current Research Students

Charlotte Bradley. “Imaginative Methods: Exploring and Evaluating Creative Futures-oriented Methods for Engaging Publics in the Responsible Scaling of Cyber-Physical Systems” (PhD; Supervisor)
Galen Cuthbertson. “Teaching Computers to Read: The Role of Deep Learning in Literary Reception Studies” (PhD; Chair of Panel)
Alice Grundy. “Editing and Publishing of Post-War, Award-Winning Fiction by Female Australian Authors” (PhD; Supervisor)
Xiang Li, “Female Identity in ‘The Drover’s Wife’ Stories and Adaptations” (PhD; Supervisor)
Fiannuala Morgan. “Visualising Australia’s Literary Imaginary” (PhD; Chair of Panel)
Kate Oakes. “Representations of Animals in Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials Series” (PhD; Supervisor)
Miriam Potter. “An Eco-critical Reading of Patrick White” (PhD; Chair of Panel) 

Past (Completed) Research Students 

Sacha Paterson. “Intersectional Representation and Criticisms of Postfeminism: Fourth-Wave Feminist Discourse in Pretty Little Liars” (Honours, 2nd Class; Awarded December 2022)
Dr Tobi Evans. “Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things: Masculinities in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire” (PhD; Awarded July 2019; Chair of Panel)
Dr Imogen Matthews. “Anita Heiss as Public Intellectual” (PhD; Awarded December 2019; Supervisor)
James Foulds. “Am I Evil? Worse, You’re Smart’: Toxicity as a function of performance within the Rick and Morty fandom (Honours, 2nd Class; Awarded December 2018)
Jack Foster. “Posthuman Compositions” (Honours, 1st Class; Awarded December 2019)
Annabel Quan. “‘One day you will go mad with magic’: Returning to Structure in the Winternight Trilogy” (Honours, 1st Class; Awarded December 2019)

Service to the University and Discipline

Conference and Symposium Organisation

2019. Advisory Committee. Digital Humanities Down Under. Western Sydney University annual series of workshops (3–7 December)
2018. Organising and Programming Committee. Literary Studies Convention 2018: The Literary Interface triennial conference, Australian National University (3–7 July)
2018. Organising Committee. Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing annual conference, Western Sydney University (9–12 July)
2012. Co-Convenor, with Paul Arthur. Digital Humanities Australasia: Building, Mapping, Connecting, Australian National University (28–30 March)
2012. Convenor. Digital Humanities Workshop, Australian National University (27 March)
2008. Co-Convenor, with Robert Dixon. Resourceful Reading: The New Empiricism, eResearch and Australian Literary Culture Symposium, University of Sydney (4–5 December)
2008 Co-Convenor, with Tara Murphy. Early Career Researcher Showcase series, University of Sydney (1 October)

Assessor Positions

2022. Assessor, European Research Council
2021. Assessor, Israel Science Foundation
2019. Assessor, European Research Council
2019. Invited consultant, National Research Infrastructure Investments in Humanities and Social Sciences Draft Discussion Paper, Department of Education (3 June)
2019. Invited participant, Australian Academy of the Humanities Skills Roundtable (29 March)
2019. Invited participant, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Scoping Study Impacts Workshop, Department of Education and Training (15 March)
2018. Assessor, Expressions of Interest, 2019 ANU, PKU, NYU, UTokyo Winter Institute
2018. Assessor, Junior Research Fellowship in Immateriality, King’s College Cambridge
2018. Assessor, Tuckwell Scholarship, Australian National University
2017. Chair, Selection Committee. Level B Academic Position. School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics
2015. Invited participant, Australian Academy of the Humanities Infrastructure Policy Forum (June)
2015. Judging Panel Member, Walter Russell McCrae Award
2014–. Detailed Assessor (Discovery, DECRA, Linkage, LIEF, Future Fellowships), Australian Research Council
2013. Chair, Selection Committee. Level B Academic Position. Digital Humanities Hub
2012. Chair, Selection Committee. Digital Humanities Developer Position. Digital Humanities Hub
2012. Assessor, European Commission
2011. Judging Panel Chair, ALS Gold Medal

Elected Roles

2011–14. Founding Committee Member, Australasian Association for Digital Humanities
2009–11. Communications Manager, Association for the Study of Australian Literature

Administrative Roles

2019–20. Member, ERA Working Group, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
2018. Convenor, 4-digit (2005) ERA Assessment Exercise, Australian National University
2017–18. Chair, Research Reference Group, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Australian National University
2017–18. Member, CASS Research Committee, Australian National University
2013. CASS Representative, ANU eResearch Reference Group, Australian National University
2011–13. Head, Centre for Digital Humanities Research, Australian National University
2012–13. Acting Head (6 months), Interdisciplinary Humanities Group, Australian National University
2012. Member, Coursework Subcommittee to the CASS Education Committee
2011–13. Member, Steering Committee, Australian National Data Service
2011–12. Member, eResearch Subcommittee to the CASS Research Committee, Australian National University

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