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
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. (2021). Improving Measures of Text Reuse in English Poetry: A TF–IDF Based Method. In K. Toeppe, H. Yan, & S. K. Chu (Eds.), Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue - 16th International Conference, iConference 2021, Proceedings (pp. 469-477). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 12645 LNCS). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71292-1_36
Underwood, T., & So, R. J. (2021). Can We Map Culture? Journal of Cultural Analytics, 6, 32-51. https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.24911
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. (Accepted/In press). Digital humanities in the iSchool. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24535
Hu, Y., Jiang, M., Underwood, T., & Downie, J. S. (2020). Improving digital libraries' provision of digital humanities datasets: A case study of htrc literature dataset. In JCDL 2020 - Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2020 (pp. 405-408). [3398621] (Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1145/3383583.3398621
Sharma, A., Hu, Y., Wu, P., Shang, W., Singhal, S., & Underwood, T. (2020). The rise and fall of genre differentiation in english-language fiction. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2723, 97-114.