Collin Jennings
Education
- PhD, English and American Literature, New York University, 2015
- BA, English, University of Texas at Austin, 2007
Research Interests
- Textual and paratextual forms of ordering
- Fictionality
- Media history
Teaching Interests
- Eighteenth-century British literature
- Digital humanities and text analysis
Selected Publications
- “Of Calendars and Graphs: Transformations of the Succession Concept in British Moral Philosophy,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (forthcoming).
- “Mindful Matter,” review of Metaphors of Mind: An Eighteenth-Century Dictionary by Brad Pasanek and The Mind is a Collection: Case Studies in Eighteenth-Century Thought by Sean Silver, Eighteenth-Century Life, 42.1 (forthcoming).
- “'A Scientifical View of the Whole': Adam Smith, Indexing, and Technologies of Abstraction,” English Literary History, co-authored with Jeffrey M. Binder, Vol. 83.1 (Spring 2016).
- “Visibility and Meaning in Topic Models and Eighteenth-Century Subject Indexes,” Literary and Linguistic Computing, co-authored with Jeffrey M. Binder, (May 2014).
Web Publications
- The Networked Corpus, co-created with Jeffrey M. Binder: http://networkedcorpus.com/
Grants and Awards
- Folger Early Modern Digital Agendas Program Grant, Folger Shakespeare Library, June 2015
- Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship, New York University, 2014-2015
Work in Progress
Jennings is working on a book manuscript entitled Necessary Connections: An Enlightenment History of the Link, which traces the long media history of the “link” as it was represented in innovative eighteenth-century print devices and paratexts, ranging from the cross-references of Ephraim Chambers’s Cyclopædia (1728) to the poetic epigraphs of Ann Radcliffe’s gothic novels. He demonstrates how linguistic and medial features observed in eighteenth-century writing can be read in relation to digital forms of organizing cultural knowledge.