Mark Algee Hewitt

About

Mark Algee Hewitt is an Associate Professor of English at Stanford University and serves as the Director of the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA), the Stanford Literary Lab, and the Director of Graduate Studies for the Program in Modern Thought and Literature. His research focuses on the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in England and Germany, aiming to combine literary criticism with digital and quantitative analyses of literary texts. He is particularly interested in the history of aesthetic theory, the development and transmission of aesthetic and philosophic concepts during the Enlightenment and Romantic periods, and the relationship between aesthetic theory and poetry of the long eighteenth century. With a background in English literature and computer science, Dr. Hewitt has worked on projects that integrate literary interpretation with quantitative analysis. His current book project, The Afterlife of the Sublime, explores the history of the sublime by analyzing over 11,000 texts from the long eighteenth century to trace its discursive patterns and the reasons for the term's disappearance at the end of the Romantic period. He has also been involved in collaborative projects such as the Book History BiblioGraph, a dynamic online resource visualizing connections in Book History, and the Werther Topologies, which aims to identify lexical patterns influenced by Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther. Dr. Hewitt has taught courses in literary history and…

Research topics

• Sociology
• Biology
• Demography
• Statistics
• Geography
• Computer Science
• Mathematics
• Archaeology
• Data science
• Genetics

Selected publications

• Evaluating population affinity estimates in forensic anthropology: Insights from the forensic anthropology database for assessing methods accuracy (FADAMA)

  Journal of Forensic Sciences · 2021 · 27 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Using a sample of anonymized U.S. forensic anthropology cases (n = 251) from the FADAMA database, we assess the degree of concordance between decedents' social identifiers and anthropologists' continental-based classifications. We report high success rates (>90%) that generally support previous findings, yet we acknowledge the limitations of assessing "ancestry" accuracy based on resolved cases and draw attention to situations in which our methods fail. For example, forensic anthropologists achi…

  PublisherDOI

• Representing Race and Ethnicity in American Fiction, 1789-1920

  Journal of Cultural Analytics · 2020-12-18 · 23 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  Our project, which aims to reconstruct racial discourse in American literature, tracks three critical aspects of the representation of race and ethnicity in a corpus of over 18,000 American novels published between 1789 and 1920. First, we provide a historically sensitive account of the ethnicities that most occupied the nation’s racial imaginary, registering how different ethnic groups were perceived to be biologically, geographically, or socially linked. Second, we track the descriptive terms…

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Age‐at‐death patterns and transition analysis trends for three Asian populations: Implications for [paleo]demography

  American Journal of Physical Anthropology · 2021 · 11 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Abstract Objectives Age‐at‐death estimation provides biological anthropologists with fundamental biographic information to help resolve various theoretical and practical questions about both individual expression and populational trends in present and past contexts. Particularly, researchers interested in reconstructing past populations' mortality profiles have favored using Boldsen and colleagues' Transition Analysis (TA2), as the method provides both methodological and statistical solutions fo…

  PublisherDOI

• Cadaveric blood cards: Assessing DNA quality and quantity and the utility of STRs for the individual estimation of trihybrid ancestry and admixture proportions

  Forensic Science International Synergy · 2020 · 3 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  As part a body donation program, blood samples were collected and stored on untreated (non-FTA) blood cards. The blood cards were evaluated in terms of DNA preservation and STR typing success with resulting profiles assessed with special consideration given to profile matching for positive identification and biogeographic ancestry estimation. While STR profiles were successfully generated for all samples, results indicate that the time interval between date of death and sample collection have an…

  PublisherDOI

• Computational Humanities

  Debates in the digital humanities · 2024-06-20 · 2 citations

  book

  Bringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, _Computational Humanities_ redirects debates around computation and humanities digital scholarship from dualistic arguments to nuanced discourse centered around theories of knowledge and power. This volume is organized around four questions: Why or why not pursue computational humanities? How do we engage in computational humanities? What can we study using these methods? Who are the stakeholders? <br><br> Recent advances in…

  PublisherDOI

Frequent coauthors

• Graciela S. Cabana

  Hudson Institute

  344 shared

• Anne L. Grauer

  Loyola University Chicago

  343 shared

• Leslie C. Aiello

  The University of Tokyo

  343 shared

• Trudy R. Turner

  John Wiley & Sons (United States)

  343 shared

• Kristi Lewton

  University of Southern California

  343 shared

• Joe Tomaszewski

  University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

  343 shared

• Dennis E. Slice

  Florida State University

  26 shared

• Jieun Kim

  20 shared

Similar researchers at Stanford University

• Adam Johnsonh-171
• Shelley Fisher Fishkinh-21
• Margaret Cohenh-17