Galen Cuthbertson

Galen Cuthbertson has evolved from an MPhil Candidate at the University of Adelaide to become a PhD student at the Australian National University's School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, where he specializes in applying computational methods to literary analysis. His research combines traditional literary scholarship with innovative digital approaches, particularly focusing on the application of statistical machine learning to literary reception studies. His MPhil thesis demonstrated this interdisciplinary approach by examining audience manipulation in Christopher Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris through computational stylistics and social network analysis. His scholarly work extends to collaborative projects in digital humanities, including contributions to Australian literary history research and the development of rigorous quantitative models for humanities research. He maintains affiliations with several research centers, including the ANU Centre for Digital Humanities Research, Centre for Australian Literary Cultures, and Centre for Research on Language Change, while also contributing to educational initiatives such as the Shakespeare Matters MOOC. His research interests span across Early Modern playtexts, digital methods in literary analysis, and the social networks of Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies, establishing himself as an emerging voice in the digital humanities field.