Michael Gavin Department of English Center for Digital Humanities University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 [email protected] Employment University of South Carolina, Associate Professor, 2016- University of South Carolina, Co-Director, Center for Digital Humanities, 2016- University of South Carolina, Assistant Professor, 2012-16 Rice University, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2010-12 Education Ph.D., English, Rutgers University, May 2010 M.A., English, Ohio State University, 2005 B.A., English, Ohio State University, 1999 Research Books The Invention of English Criticism, 1650 - 1760 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015) Peer-Reviewed Articles “Vector Semantics, William Empson, and the Study of Ambiguity,” Critical Inquiry (forthcoming) “An Agent-based Computational Approach to the ‘Adam Smith Problem’,” Historical Social Research (forthcoming) “Spaces of Meaning: Vector Semantics, Conceptual History, and Close Reading,” Michael Gavin, Collin Jennings, Lauren Kersey, and Brad Pasanek, Debates in Digital Humanities (forthcoming) “Scotland’s Poetics of Space: An Experiment in Geospatial Semantics,” Michael Gavin and Eric Gidal, Cultural Analytics (November, 2017) doi:10.22148/16.017 “Historical Text Networks: The Sociology of Early English Criticism,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 50, 1 (Fall 2016): 53-80 “Agent-Based Modeling and Historical Simulation,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 8, 4 (2014) “Real Robinson Crusoe,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 25, 2 (Winter 2012-13): 301-25 “Writing Print Cultures Past: Literary Criticism and Book History,” Book History 15 (2012): 26- 47 “Critics and Criticism in the Poetry of Anne Finch,” ELH 78, 3 (Fall 2011): 633-55 “James Boswell and the Uses of Criticism,” SEL 50, 3 (Summer 2010): 665-81 Reviews & Other Essays with Eric Gidal, “Scottish Studies and Spatial Humanities,” Studies in Scottish Literature 42, 2 (Fall 2016) with Eric Gidal, “Topic Modeling and the Historical Geography of Scotland,” Studies in Scottish Literature 42, 2 (Fall 2016) “Intellectual History and the Computational Turn,” (review of Peter de Bolla, The Architecture of Concepts: The Historical Formation of Human Rights), Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 58, 2 (2017):249-53. “Digital Humanities and the Future of Literary Studies,” (review of Ted Underwood, Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies), Eighteenth-Century Life 39, 3 (2015): 59-64 “Diana Solomon’s Prologues and Epilogues of the Restoration Theater,” The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 48, 1 (2015): 103-06 “Prefatory Criticism,” in The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 1660-1789, ed. Gary Day and Jack Lynch (Wiley Blackwell, 2014) 924-27 “Q&A With Brett Bobley,” with Kathleen Smith, co-author. Debates in the Digital Humanities, ed. Matthew K. Gold. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2012 “Serial Publication and the Vendible Canon,” (review of Thomas F. Bonnell, The Most Disreputable Trade: Publishing the Classics of English Poetry, 1765-1810), Eighteenth- Century Life 34, 3 (Fall 2010): 12-16 Invited Lectures “The Mathematical Structure of Geographical Description,” Indiana Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Workshop, Bloomington, May 2017 “A Mathematical Theory of Authorial Intention,” Interacting with Print Annual Workshop, McGill University, Montreal, March 2017 “Vector Semantics as a Theory of Concepts,” Conceptual Change: Digital Humanities Case Studies, Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland, December 2015 “Artificial Data: Social Simulation and Book History,” The Rutgers Seminar for the History of the Book, Rutgers University, March 2014 “Agent-Based Modeling and Historical Simulation,” The Complex Systems Institute, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, November 2013 Select Conference Presentations “Deep-Mapping Ossian: Geographic Information Systems and Environmental History in Scotland, 1790–1807,” with Eric Gidal, ASECS Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, April 2016 “An Agent-based Approach to the Adam Smith Problem,” ASECS Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, March 2015 “An Agent-based Approach to the Adam Smith Problem,” Digital Humanities and Computer Science Colloquium, Chicago, October 2014 “Social Simulation and Book History,” MLA, Chicago, January 2014 “Agent-Based Modeling and Historical Simulation,” Digital Humanities Conference, Lincoln, NE. July 2013 “Theater Criticism Before Reviewing: The Case of Susanna Centlivre,” ASECS Annual Meeting, Cleveland OH, March 2013 “How TEI is Taught,” with Rachel Mann, Annual Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative, Rome, Italy, October 2013 “Mapping TEI to the Metadata Authority Description Schema,” with Jennifer D. Miller, Annual Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative, College Station, TX 2012 “Digital Drama: Archiving Performance,” ASECS Annual Meeting, San Antonio, March 2012 “Boswell & Co.: Collaboration and the Uses of Scurrility,” ASECS Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, March 2010 “Writing Print Cultures Past: How the History of Literary Criticism Can Contribute to the History of the Book (invited lecture),” The Rutgers Seminar in the History of the Book, New Brunswick, NJ, December 2009 “From Manuscript to Print: Criticism and the Poetry of Anne Finch,” EC/ASECS Annual Meeting, Bethlehem, PA, October 2009 “Dramatic Criticism and the Print Marketplace, 1664-1675,” ASECS Annual Meeting, co- sponsored by SHARP, Richmond, March 2009 “Books of Letters in 17th-Century France and England: from Correspondence to Publicity,” with Mathilde Bombart, Letters as Media Conference, Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University, March 2009 Teaching Graduate Courses Computational Methods for Literary History Eighteenth-Century British Literature Select Undergraduate Courses Digital Humanities Digital Literary Studies: Electronic Poetry, Interactive Fiction, Digital Editing Fictional Worlds: Simulation in Theory and Practice from Robinson Crusoe to Half-Life 2 The English Novel The Enlightenment Celebrity and Spectacle on the 18th-Century Stage Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature Introduction to British Literature Rhetoric and Composition PhD Thesis Directed Rachel Mann, “Literature, Natural Philosophy, & the Meaning of ‘Life,’ 1620-1740” (exp. 2018) Undergraduate Theses Directed Ainsley McWaters, “Bioshock Infinite: Intersections of Simulation and Narrative” (2015) Kristyn Sanito, “George Lillo’s London Merchant and Eighteenth-Century Stage” (2013) Digital Research / Projects Select Blog Posts / Other “The Arithmetic of Concepts: A Response to Peter de Bolla,” Modeling Literary History, http://modelingliteraryhistory.org. September 18, 2015 (Editors’ Choice, DigitalHumanitiesNow, September 2015) “tei2r: Download, import, and analyze TEI documents in R,” Modeling Literary History, http://modelingliteraryhistory.org. August 26, 2015 “How To Build a Topic Model from EEBO in 5 Commands,” Modeling Literary History, http://modelingliteraryhistory.org. August 26, 2015 “Getting Started with Agent-Based Modeling,” EDUCAUSE Review, July 2014 Digital Projects Humanities Text Analysis — R packages, Github, https://github.com/michaelgavin ● “tei2r: Import and Parse TEI Documents in R” ● “htn: Build a Historical Text Network” ● “empson: Create Vector-Space Models from tei2r" Humanities Applications of Agent-Based Modeling, NetLogo Modeling Commons, http://modelingcommons.org/account/models/775 The Stockton Axson Eighteenth-Century Drama Archive, Rice, 2011, http://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/61548 University Service Center for Digital Humanities, Interim Director, Fall 2017 Center for Digital Humanities, Co-Director, 2016- Center for Digital Humanities, Advisory Board, 2012-16 Advisory Committee for Information and Computing, 2017- TWIST: College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Task Force for Innovation in Teaching, 2016-17 FLIP: Focus on Learning, Innovation, and Pedagogy, Center for Teaching Excellence, 2014-15 Department Service Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of English, 2013-2014, 2016- Faculty Advisory Committee (elected), Department of English, 2014-16 Graduate Studies Committee, Department of English, 2014-16 Digital Learning Initiative, Co-Organizer, 2013-16 Search Committee, “Digital Humanities,” Department of English, 2013-2014 National / International Service 18thConnect Steering Committee, 2015- “Digital Humanities” Program Chair, Behavioral, Economic and Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC’2015). Nanjing, China. October-November 2015 Organizer, with Jose Vidal and Mike Huhns, SwarmFest 2015: 19th Annual Meeting of the Swarm Development Group (SDG). Columbia, SC. July 2015. Outside Reader / Peer Reviewer: Book History, Digital Humanities Quarterly, Eighteenth- Century Life, ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830, Etudes Episteme, Philological Quarterly, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Historical Social Research, Stanford University Press Awards ASPIRE I, Track 1, PI. “R Package for Humanities Text Analysis,” Office of Research, University of South Carolina, 2015 ASPIRE I, Track 1, co-PI, “Mapping Scotland: Cartography, Literature, and Environment in the Industrial Age,” Office of Research, University of South Carolina, 2015 Innovative Course Design, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2015 Humanities Research Grant, Provost’s Office, University of South Carolina, 2014 Digital Education Award, Center for Digital Scholarship, Rice University Libraries, 2011 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Rice University Humanities Research Center, 2010 Huntington Research Fellowship, The Huntington Library, San Marino California, 2009 Fellow, Rutgers Center for Cultural Analysis, “New Media Literacies, Gutenberg to Google,” 2008 .