Edwin (Teddy) Roland
Postdoctoral Research Associate
PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara
MA, University of Chicago
BA, Oberlin College
Research focus
Digital humanities and new media studies, history and theory of machine learning, computational literary study, AI applications in humanities research and teaching, contemporary American literature.
Honors and Awards
- 2024–25 Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Dissertation Fellowship, UCSB
- 2016–18 Regents Fellowship in English, UCSB
Courses currently teaching
Publications & Papers
2024 "Visualizing Linearity: Religion, Gender, and Progress in an Eighteenth-Century Quaker Archive," co-authors Rachel King et al, Eighteenth-Century Fiction. vol. 36, no. 4, October 2024. 597-623. doi:10.3138/ecf.36.4.597
2021 “Against Conglomeration: Nonprofit Publishing and American Literature After 1980,” co-author Dan Sinykin, Journal of Cultural Analytics and Post45. Joint special issue, “Post45 by the Numbers,” ed. Richard Jean So. April 2021. 72-107. doi:10.22148/001c.22331
2020 “Race & Distant Reading,” co-author Richard Jean So, PMLA. Special issue on “Varieties of Digital Humanities,” eds. Alison Booth and Miriam Posner. vol. 135, no. 1, January 2020. 59-73. doi:10.1632/pmla.2020.135.1.59