The Lives of Literary Characters

Our Team!

Andrew Piper, McGill University, Project Director

Professor of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and director of .txtlab, a laboratory for Cultural Analytics. Focused on using AI and NLP for better understanding human storytelling.

Anya Labelle, McGill University
Student, BA&Sc. Moderator and Talk Leader

Alexandra Stuart, McGill University
Student, BA. Moderator.

Naya Wardeh, McGill University
Student, BA. Moderator.

Geoffrey Rockwell, University of Alberta
Professor of Philosophy and Humanities Computing. My research spans across the areas of philosophical dialogue, textual visualization and analysis, humanities computing, instructional technology, computer games and multimedia. Responsible for Task Design and Project Development.

Robert Budac, University of Alberta
Student, Department of Humanities Computing. Site manager. Responsible for maintaining/updating code for dataset curation, and developing new workflows on Zooniverse.

Andy Zhang, University of Alberta
Student, Department of English. Member of the reader outreach team.

David Bamman, University of California, Berkeley
Associate Professor, School of Information. My research focuses on improving the performance of NLP for underserved domains like literature (including LitBank and BookNLP) and exploring the affordances of empirical methods for the study of literature and culture. Responsible for AI Model Building and Consulting on Task Design.

David Jurgens, University of Michigan
Assistant Professor, School of Information. My research combines linguistic analysis and network science together to understand behavior in its natural social context. Responsible for AI Model Building and Consulting on Task Design.

This project is generously funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.