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
Professor, School of Information Sciences
Professor, English
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
Shang, W., & Underwood, T. (2025). Disentangling semantic and prosodic features of English poetry. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 40(Supplement_1), i87-i99. Article fqae008. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqae008
Griebel, S., Cohen, B., Li, L., Park, J., Liu, J., Perkins, J., & Underwood, T. (2024). Locating the Leading Edge of Cultural Change. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3834, 232-245.
Hu, Y., LeBlanc, Z. G., Diesner, J., Underwood, W. E., Layne-Worthey, G., & Downie, J. S. (2024). Complexities of leveraging user-generated book reviews for scholarly research: transiency, power dynamics, and cultural dependency. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 25(2), 317-340. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-023-00376-z
Shang, W., Jett, J., Underwood, T., & Stephen Downie, J. (2023). Descriptive Cataloging Issues for Non-Western Corpora: A Case Study of Late Imperial Chinese Books. Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 61(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2022.2148800
Underwood, T., McGrath, L., So, R. J., & Wellmon, C. (2023). Culture, Theory, Data: An Introduction. New Literary History, 53(4), 519-530. https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2022.a898319