I'm a Ph.D. candidate in Literary Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison English Department. My dissertation, "Economic Market Structures and the London Theater, 1672-1763," tracks patterns of dramatic revival and adaptation alongside economic crises and key moments in the emergence of modern financial structures such as the stock market and the national debt. My goal is to understand how theater responds to and shapes public perceptions of changing economic and market conditions. Because I’m looking at entire theatrical seasons rather than a few canonical texts, my project relies on computational methods to help synthesize information and visualize patterns across my data set. I am also a Research Assistant for Visualizing English Print, a Mellon-funded interdisciplinary initiative that is developing tools that will allow researchers trained in the humanities to visualize statistical relationships among English-language texts printed between 1470 and 1800.