Pioneer in Digital Humanities and Literary Criticism
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Dartmouth CollegeJames E. Dobson serves as Lecturer and Resident Scholar in the Department of English at Dartmouth College, holding additional appointments in the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric, Psychological and Brain Sciences, and the MALS Program. His research combines nineteenth-century American literature, autobiography studies, and digital humanities. His current book project, "The Awkward Age of Autobiography," examines the unique characteristics of American fin-de-siècle autobiography, focusing on partial, repetitive, and nonlinear forms and their relationship to historiography of the period. His scholarly work appears in prestigious publications including Mark Twain Annual and Arizona Quarterly, with forthcoming pieces in Legacy and College Literature. Through his interdisciplinary appointments, he brings together traditional literary analysis with contemporary approaches to digital humanities and cognitive science.