Ted Underwood


Ted Underwood is an American literary and informatics scholar, using text mining and computational methods, such as machine learning, and statistical modeling with logistic regression for literary criticism on large digital collections of historical literary works such as novels. He is a professor of Information Sciences and English at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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Biography

Underwood obtained a M.A. degree in Philosophy at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, and a PhD in English at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in 1997, where he trained as a Romanticist. He was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Rochester during 1997-1998, and an assistant professor of English from 1998 up to 2006 at Colby College, Waterville, Maine, and at UIUC. There in 2007 he became an associate professor of English and since 2014 full professor of English, and since 2016 also of Information Sciences. He teaches 18th and 19th century British literature in the English Department. At Leiden University, he was a 2019 visiting Scaliger professor.
After publishing on eighteenth and nineteenth English literature using classical literary criticism, Underwood turned to digital humanities for the study of literary patterns, such as genres or gender representation since 1780, by analysing hundreds or thousands of books from digital libraries with computational methods.

Publications

Underwood's publications include:
  • 240 pages.
  • 199 pages.
  • 206 pages. Review