Research Interests
Text mining in large digital libraries, Modeling literary concepts with machine learning, 18-19c British literature, History of 18-19c science, Sociology of cultural distinction
Education
English, Ph.D, Cornell University
Ph.D, Cornell University, 1997
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Information Sciences
Professor, School of Information Sciences
External Links
Highlighted Publications
Underwood, T. (2019). Distant Horizons: Digital Evidence and Literary Change. University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226612973.001.0001
Underwood, W. E. (2013). Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies. Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804788441
Underwood, T. (2005). The Work of the Sun: Literature, Science, and Political Economy, 1760-1860. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403981905
Recent Publications
Underwood, T., Kiley, K., Shang, W., & Vaisey, S. (2022). Cohort Succession Explains Most Change in Literary Culture. Sociological Science, 9, 184-205. https://doi.org/10.15195/V9.A8
Walsh, J. A., Cobb, P. J., de Fremery, W., Golub, K., Keah, H., Kim, J., Kiplang'at, J., Liu, Y. H., Mahony, S., Oh, S. G., Sula, C. A., Underwood, T., & Wang, X. (2022). Digital humanities in the iSchool. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 73(2), 188-203. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24535
Feng, L., & Underwood, T. (2021). 当下数字人文研究的核心问题与最新进展: 泰德•安德伍德访谈录. Foreign Literature Studies, 43(6), 1-13.
Jiang, M., Hu, Y., Worthey, G., Dubnicek, R. C., Underwood, T., & Downie, J. S. (2021). Evaluating BERT's Encoding of Intrinsic Semantic Features of OCR'd Digital Library Collections. In J. S. Downie, D. McKay, H. Suleman, D. M. Nichols, & F. Poursardar (Eds.), Proceedings - 2021 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2021 (pp. 308-309). (Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries; Vol. 2021-September). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/JCDL52503.2021.00045
Jiang, M., Hu, Y., Worthey, G., Dubnicek, R. C., Underwood, T., & Downie, J. S. (2021). Impact of OCR quality on BERT embeddings in the domain classification of book excerpts. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2989, 266-279.