Claudia Carroll

Assistant Professor, English

Area of Study

Humanities Analytics, Literary and Cultural Studies

Bio

Claudia's research sits at the intersection of machine learning, cognitive science, and literary studies, with a particular focus on the nineteenth-century novel; her book project, Reading Minds: Why Characters Feel Real in the Nineteenth-Century Novel, uses computational text classification and attribution theory to make a novel argument about the sources of character realism in fiction. She is co-founder of the AI Humanities Lab at Washington University and has published in venues including the Harvard Data Science Review and Journal of Cultural Analytics. She is also an experienced teacher of Python-based text analysis for humanists at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. 

Education

Ph.D., English, University of Notre Dame

B.A., first class, Trinity College, Dublin