Overview
Lindsay Thomas's research and teaching focus on the contemporary US literature, cultural studies, and the digital humanities. She is the author of (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), which focuses on how fiction shapes contemporary national security. From 2017-2021, she was co-director of , a multi-institutional public humanities project funded by the Mellon Foundation that used computational text analysis to examine public discourse on the value of the humanities on a large scale. Her scholarship and writing have appeared in journals such as American Literature, the Journal of Cultural Analytics, Daedalus and more. She is currently working on a history of “solutions” to the problem of novelistic length since the mid-20th century.
Research Focus
- Contemporary literature and culture
- Data collection and curation in the humanities
- Computational text analysis
- Digital media
- Sociology of literature
