David L. Hoover

Ph.D. 1980 (English language), M.A. 1974 (English Language), Indiana
B.A. 1971 (English and Philosophy), Manchester College

Digital Humanities, authorship attribution, computational stylistics

Project Partner, “Quantitative Literaturwissenschaft / Quantitative Criticims “ at the Universität Stuttgart (Germany), 2016-19, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

Co-Investigator, COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action Proposal "Distant Reading for European Literary History." Four-year grant involving nineteen researchers from twelve countries, 2017.

Advisor, “The Riddle of Literary Quality,” a research project of the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, in collaboration with the Fryske Akademy and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (University of Amsterdam), 2011-2016, funded by the Computational Humanities Programme of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

David L. Hoover received his B.A. in English and Philosophy from Manchester College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English Language from Indiana University and has taught at NYU since 1981. His research interests include the Digital Humanities, computational stylistics, and authorship attribution. His most recent books are Digital Literary Studies: Corpus Approaches to Poetry, Prose, and Drama (with Jonathan Culpeper and Kieran O’Halloran). London: Routledge, 2014, and Stylistics: Prospect and Retrospect and Language and Style in The Inheritors. He is active in the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, the MLA, and PALA (The Poetics and Linguistics Association), and serves on the editorial boards of Language and Literature, and Digital Studies / Le champ numérique, and the book series “Linguistics Approaches to Literature.” He teaches Digital Literary Studies, Science Fiction, Authorship, Introduction to Literature, and Chaucer.