James E. Dobson

James E. "Jed" Dobson, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of English and Creative Writing
Director of the Writing Program
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:
James dot E dot Dobson at Dartmouth dot EDU

Recent Publications

Cody Kommers et al., “Computational Hermeneutics: Evaluating Generative AI as a Cultural Technology”
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 9 (2026).
"The Digitalization of the Humanities: Recent Trends and Future Prospects"
Digital Transformation in Artificial Systems: Engineering Requirements and Political, Economic, and Philosophical Challenges
Eds. Mirko Farina, Paolo Ciancarini, Xiao Yu, Jin Chen
Cambridge, MA: Morgan Kaufmann, 2026
"On Personal and Impersonal Data"
American Literature 97, no. 3 (2025): 467–490.
"Beyond Computational Formalism or, Architecture Matters"
Journal of Cultural Analytics 10, no. 3 (2025).
“Early Machine Learning and Artificial Animal Intelligences” [PDF]
Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 57, no. 1 (2024): 63-89.
"On the Confusion Matrix"
Configurations 32, no. 4 (2024): 331-350.
"On Reading and Interpreting Black Box Deep Neural Networks" [PDF]
International Journal of Digital Humanities 5 (2023): 431–449.
"Objective Vision: Confusing the Subject of Computer Vision" [PDF]
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