Jonathan Reeve

Jonathan Reeve is a graduate student in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, specializing in computational literary analysis. He has worked as a programmer for the Modern Language Association, New York University, and the City University of New York. His recent projects include Middlemarch Critical Histories, applications of text reuse detection technologies to the study of literary critical reception histories; Git-Lit, an application of distributed version control toward the creation of 50,000 digital scholarly editions; and Corpus-DB, a structured textual corpus database. Software he has authored includes macro-etym, a tool for macro-etymological textual analysis; chapterize, a utility for computationally identifying textual structures; and text-matcher, an approximate text reuse detection application. His latest publication is "A Macro-Etymological Analysis of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," in Reading Modernism with Machines, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Find his blog at jonreeve.com.