Education
Stanford University
PhD Candidate, English Department
2014—Present
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Teacher Education Program
2011—2012
Oxford University
Visiting Student, English
2010—2011
Harvard University
A.B., English and American Literature
Magna Cum Laude
2008—2012
Publications
Algee-Hewitt, Mark; Droge, Abigail; Eccles, Tasha; Frank, Morgan; Fredner, Erik; Porter, J.D.; Shephard, Andrew; Walser, Hannah. Suspense: A Study in Digital Narratology. Submitting manuscript proposal to Columbia University Press in winter 2018.
Algee-Hewitt, Mark; Fredner, Erik; Walser, Hannah. “The Novel as Data.” The Cambridge Companion to the Novel. Ed. Bulson, Eric. 2018.
McClure, David; Algee-Hewitt, Mark; Douris, Steele; Fredner, Erik; Walser, Hannah. “Organizing corpora at the Stanford Literary Lab: Balancing simplicity and flexibility in metadata management.” Proceedings of the Workshop on Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora and Big Data and Natural Language Processing. pp. 25-29. 2017.
Teaching
City College of New York
World Humanities 101
“What It Is Like to Be Alive”
2018-2019
Stanford University
As Instructor
Writing Intensive Seminar in English
“Average Americans”
2017-18
As Teaching Assistant
Literary History III (1850—1950)
Instructor: Franco Moretti
2014-15
Narrative & Narrative Theory
Instructors: Paula Moya & J.D. Porter
2015-16
Graduate Pedagogy Workshop
Instructor: Paula Moya
2017-18
Excellence in Teaching Prize
Stanford English Department
June 6, 2016
Presentations
Seven Types of Typicality
Stanford Literary Lab
Stanford, CA
November 16, 2018
Typicality
Stanford Literary Lab
Stanford, CA
February 27, 2018
The Norton Anthologies of American Literature: Database, Canon, Career
Stanford Literary Lab
Stanford, CA
May 7, 2018
Typicality
Stanford Literary Lab
Stanford, CA
February 27, 2018
The Statistical Imaginations of Hamlin Garland and Henry James
Colloquium
Stanford, CA
January 16, 2018
“Security” in Foreign Affairs
Stanford Literary Lab
Stanford, CA
December 6, 2017
The Type of the Average
Working Group on the Novel
Stanford, CA
September 30, 2017
Microgenres
Stanford Literary Lab
Stanford, CA
November 15, 2017
Average, American: Reformism and the Statistical Imagination in Jason Edwards
Consortium on the Novel
Stanford, CA
November 10, 2017
Distant Reading with the Oxford English Dictionary
Stanford Literary Lab
Stanford, CA
November 8, 2017
Existential and Romantic Suspense
Stanford Literary Lab
Stanford, CA
October 18, 2017
Reading the Norton Anthologies
DH2017
Montréal, Canada
August 10, 2017
How many novels have been published in English? An Attempt
Stanford Literary Lab
Stanford, CA
February 4, 2017
Reading the Norton Anthologies: Databases, Canons, and “Careers”
Stanford Literary Lab
Stanford, CA
November 30, 2016
Reading Norton Anthologies
SyncDH
Santa Barbara, CA
May 27, 2016
Standing Underneath: Melville, Confidence, Testimony
Berkeley-Stanford Conference
Berkeley, CA
April 15, 2016
Fallible and Unreliable Narration in The Sound and The Fury
Lecture in Narrative & Narrative Theory
Stanford, CA
October 27, 2015
Another Castle: The Stolen Princess Narrative in Literature and Videogames
Infinite Possibilities, A Working Group on Speculative Fiction
Stanford, CA
October 12, 2015
Virality
DH2015
Sydney, Australia
July 3, 2015
Suspense… Language, Narrative, Affect
DH2015
Sydney, Australia
July 2, 2015
Current Projects of the Literary Lab
SyncDH
Santa Barbara, CA
May 8, 2015
“Two Blocks Joined by a Corridor:” On the Structure of Time in To The Lighthouse
Lecture in Literary History III
Stanford, CA
May 7, 2015
“Inveigling Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Become a Ballet:” cummings’s Tom and the Body
Berkeley-Stanford Conference
Stanford, CA
October 29, 2014
The Stanford Literary Lab’s Pamphlet Series
Future of Publication Workshop
Stanford, CA
October 24, 2014
Research Collaborator
Suspense: Language, Narrative, Affect
Stanford Literary Lab
2014 to present
“Security” in Foreign Affairs
Stanford Literary Lab
2015 to present
Reading the Norton Anthologies: Canons and Careers
Stanford Literary Lab
2016 to present
Microgenres
Stanford Literary Lab
2017 to present
Academic Service
Coordinator, Stanford Literary Lab
2014 to present
Writer, PhD Journalist Project
Stanford Humanities Center
2014 to present
Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Liasion
English Graduate Student Council, Stanford
2015-Present
Reviewer, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Conference
2016-2017
Conference Convenor
Making & Breaking: The 2015 Berkeley-Stanford Conference
Stanford, CA
2014-2015
Conference Coordinator
Micromégas: The very small, the very large, and the objects of the digital humanities
Stanford, CA
February 2014
Conference Coordinator
Literature: A history of the word
Stanford, CA
April 2016
Conference Coordinator
Findings: Is computation changing the study of literature?
Stanford, CA
April 2017
Academic Affiliations
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
Modern Language Association
Academic Awards
2017-18 Pigott Scholars Program Fellowship
Last updated
June 22, 2018
