Ryan Heuser is a literary historian and computational humanist with fifteen years of experience in researching and teaching in the digital humanities. His doctoral training is in eighteenth-century British literature. He completed his dissertation in 2019 in Stanford University’s English department, where he was a founding member and Associate Research Director of the Stanford Literary Lab. From 2019 to 2022, he was Junior Research Fellow at King’s, where he supervised students in English literature, taught in the Centre for Digital Humanities, and helped to review and establish its MPhil program. He is now Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities in the Cambridge Digital Humanities programme based in the English Faculty. Ryan’s research and pedagogy span topics from the history and theory of digital humanities to its methodological groundings in data science and visualization, natural language processing, network theory, machine learning, and large language models. His work focuses on computational approaches to prosody and rhythm, literary and intellectual history, and the history and impact of artificial intelligence on language.
Some of his latest work on computational intellectual history appears in a new book from Cambridge University Press, Explorations in the Digital History of Ideas (2023, ed. Peter de Bolla)
