I am Teddy Roland, a PhD candidate in English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where I study contemporary American Literature and New Media.

My research is characterized as “distant reading,” which uses computers and statistics for literary interpretation. Although the approach may appear strange at first, the questions I hope to answer are familiar ones in literary history: How do the conditions of reading and writing literature change over the past century? How does the arrival of now-ubiquitous computer technology shape the contemporary literature?

My teaching similarly prepares students for the new literacies that are asked of them by computers and AI.

For more information see the About page, as well as summaries of my Research and Teaching. Below you will find my occasional blog on the Digital Humanities.