Claudia Carroll

Claudia Carroll is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at TRIADS. She received her PhD in English, specializing in characterization and computational literary studies, from the University of Notre Dame, where she was a Notebaert Premier Fellow. Her research uses quantitative methods to study characterization in fiction, with a focus on the nineteenth-century novel. At WashU, she is working on developing machine-learning methods for the analysis of reader cognition, and on computational methods for the formal analysis of AI-generated literature. Her research is published or forthcoming in the Journal of Victorian Culture, Poetics Today, the Harvard Data Science Review, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities and the Routledge Handbook of AI and Literature. For her work on narrative structure, she is the recipient of the 2022 Alan Nadal Prize from the International Society for the Study of Narrative. At WashU, she is a founding PI of the AI Humanities Lab, and teaches in the Data Science and the Humanities (DASH) program.