Rate My Professor Katherine Bode

Bode's research specializations encompass digital humanities, computational literary studies, data-rich literary history, book history, publishing studies, reading and reception studies, and Australian literature. Her major publications include the books A World of Fiction: Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History (University of Michigan Press, 2018), Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field (Anthem Press, 2012), and Advancing Digital Humanities: Research, Methods, Theories (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, co-edited with Paul Arthur). Key articles feature Why You Can’t Model Away Bias (Modern Language Quarterly, 2020), The Equivalence of “Close” and “Distant” Reading; or, Toward a New Object for Data-Rich Literary History (Modern Language Quarterly, 2017), and What's the Matter with Computational Literary Studies? (Critical Inquiry, 2023). She leads public-facing projects such as the To be continued: The Australian Newspaper Fiction Database and edits a series with Obiter Press publishing forgotten colonial Australian fiction. Bode has secured multiple ARC grants, including Discovery Projects and a Special Research Initiative, and received honors such as election as Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2020, the Outstanding Early Career Alumni Award from James Cook University in 2014, and various fellowships including at King’s College London and Freie University Berlin. Her scholarship, with 212 Scopus citations and an h-index of 7, advances literary studies through digital methods.