Languages and Literature, De Montfort University
Thesis title:
My interest is in stylometry — the science of measuring writing styles — and it how can be best applied to the diverse field of Early Modern English.
My research examines the Shakespeare apocrypha, a group of 17th Century plays published under Shakespeare’s name, but which have historically been regarded as containing little-to-none of his writing. By developing a new suite of stylometry software alongside my studies, my hope is to glean new insight into the authorship of these texts, while creating a set of tools that can be easily circulated to other researchers, or students, who are interested in studying authorship.
"Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeare’s Rival", Shakespeare, 2023
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17450918.2023.2226119
"Principal Component Analysis and Authorship", Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2023
https://academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/llc/fqad054/7295827
Irish Renaissance Society, Belfast - 2019
Quantitative Methods for Literary and Historical Scholarship, Leeds - 2022
Quantitative Methods for Literary and Historical Scholarship, Leicester - 2022
M4C Research Festival - 2023
Always happy to chat about applying anything in the fields of Data Science, Machine Learning, or Statistical Learning, to the humanities!