I am Teddy Roland, a PhD candidate in English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where I study American Literature in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries.

My research looks at the rise of computing in recent decades and asks how it has shaped our habits of reading and writing. I answer these questions by blending familiar techniques from literary study, such as close reading and archival research, with those of computational disciplines, such as computer science and statistics. (See Research)

My teaching similarly draws from across disciplines, in order to prepare students for the rapidly changing literacies we are witnessing today. An introduction to programming and linguistics is woven into instruction in literary analysis. (See Teaching)

Currently, I am pursuing a project on Large Language Models, like ChatGPT, and the impact of fictional writings in their training data. Previous scholarship has appeared in PMLA and Post45/Cultural Analytics.

Prior to my arrival at UCSB, I completed my M.A. at the University of Chicago, and I was the Coordinator for Digital Literary Study with the Digital Humanities at Berkeley Initiative.