James E. Dobson

James E. "Jed" Dobson, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of English and Creative Writing
Director of the Writing Program
Special Advisor to the Provost for AI
Dartmouth College
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Campus Offices:
English and Creative Writing: Room 7A Sanborn House
Office Phone: (603) 646-8612

Mailing Address:
Hinman Box (HB) 6032
Sanborn House
19 North Main St.
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755

Email:
(Pick one) James dot E dot Dobson at Dartmouth dot EDU
jed at uchicago dot edu (permanent)

Recent Publications

"On Reading and Interpreting Black Box Deep Neural Networks" (Open Access)
International Journal of Digital Humanities 5 (2023): 431–449.
"Objective Vision: Confusing the Subject of Computer Vision"
Social Text 41, no. 3 (2023): 35-55.
The Birth of Computer Vision
University of Minnesota Press, 2023.
"Memorization and Memory Devices in Early Machine Learning," [PDF]
Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture 4 (2023): 40-49.
"La governamentalità algoritmica nella pandemia da COVID-19" ["Algorithmic Governmentality and the COVID-19 Pandemic"] (Open Access)
Ácoma: Rivista internazionale di Studi Nordamericani 22 (2022): 186-206.
James E. Dobson and Scott Sanders
"Distant Approaches to the Printed Page" (Open Access)
Digital Studies / Le champ numérique 12, no. 1 (2022): 1-28.
"Vector Hermeneutics: On the Interpretation of Vector Space Models of Text” (Open Access)
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 37, no. 1 (2022): 81-93.
"Computation and Close Reading”
Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée 48, no. 3 (2021): 405-417.
Interpretable Outputs: Criteria for Machine Learning in the Humanities” (Open Access)
DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly 15, no. 2 (2021).
James E. Dobson and Rena J. Mosteirin
Moonbit (Open Access)
punctum books, 2019
Critical Digital Humanities: The Search for a Methodology
University of Illinois Press, 2019