ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Macroevolution of European Literature
The MELT project will study the macroevolution of European literature: the overarching patterns of intertextual influences in literary fiction spanning the years 1800–2000 and including all major European languages. This project will rely on the full-text digital library of unprecedented size – HathiTrust, with over 10 million full-text books – as well as on advanced methods of computational text analysis and on novel mathematical models of cultural evolution. My interdisciplinary team, consisting of scholars of digital humanities, computational linguistics, and mathematics, will construct massive dynamic networks of book history, capturing the thematic influences between athors, the…
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