Rate My Professor Hugh Craig

Craig's research centers on computational stylistics and stylometry applied to Renaissance literature, particularly Shakespeare and Early Modern English drama. He pioneered the use of statistical methods to analyze function words for authorship attribution, influencing major scholarly works such as the New Oxford Shakespeare (2016), which incorporated his findings attributing scenes from The Spanish Tragedy to Shakespeare and confirming Marlowe's collaboration on Henry VI plays. Notable publications include "Style, Computers, and Early Modern Drama: Beyond Authorship" (2017, co-authored with Brett Greatley-Hirsch), "Shakespeare, Computers and the Mystery of Authorship" (2009, co-edited with Arthur F. Kinney), chapters like "Attribution" (2019, with John Burrows), and recent articles such as "Principal Components Analysis in Stylometry" (2024, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities) and "Changes in the Length of Speeches in the Plays of William Shakespeare and His Contemporaries" (2023, PLOS ONE). Craig has extended stylometric techniques to interdisciplinary applications, including speech pathology for detecting language changes in ageing and Alzheimer's, and health research. His mentorship has produced leading stylometry experts, and his leadership enhanced the faculty's research output, funding, and global rankings.