Books

  1. with Rena J. Mosteirin, Perceptron (punctum books, in press)
  2. The Birth of Computer Vision (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) [Bookshop, Amazon]
  3. with Rena J. Mosteirin Moonbit (punctum books, 2019) [Bookshop, Amazon]
  4. Critical Digital Humanities: The Search for a Methodology (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2019)
  5. Modernity and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America: Literary Representations of Communication and Transportation Technologies (Palgrave, 2017)

Essays/Articles

  1. "On the Confusion Matrix,"Configurations 32 no. 34 (2024): 331-350.
  2. “On Reading and Interpreting Black Box Deep Neural Networks," International Journal of Digital Humanities 5 (2023): 431–449.
  3. "Objective Vision: Confusing the Subject of Computer Vision,” Social Text 41, no. 3 (2023): 35-55.
  4. "Memorization and Memory Devices in Early Machine Learning," Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture 4 (2023): 40-49.
  5. "La governamentalità algoritmica nella pandemia da COVID-19," ["Algorithmic Governmentality and the COVID-19 Pandemic"] Ácoma: Rivista internazionale di Studi Nordamericani 22 (2022): 186-206.
  6. Dobson, J.E and Sanders S., "Distant Approaches to the Printed Page," Digital Studies / Le champ numérique 12, no. 1 (2022): 1-28.
  7. “Vector Hermeneutics: On the Interpretation of Vector Space Models of Text,” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 37, no. 1 (2022): 81-93.
  8. “Computation and Close Reading,” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée 48, no. 3 (2021): 405-417.
  9. “Interpretable Outputs: Criteria for Machine Learning in the Humanities,” DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly 15, no. 2 (2021).
  10. “The Narratives of the Later Life of Frederick Douglass,” Common-Place: The Journal of Early American Life 17, no. 2 (2017).
  11. “Lucy Larcom and the Time of the Temporal Collapse,” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 33, no. 1 (2016): 82-102.
  12. “Can an Algorithm be Disturbed?: Machine Learning, Intrinsic Criticism, and the Digital Humanities,” College Literature 42, no. 4 (2015): 543-564.
  13. “Bits of Autobiography: Radical Deindividualization and Everydayness,” Arizona Quarterly 71, no. 1 (2015): 83-99.
  14. “Mark Twain, Memory, and the Failures of Historicism,” Mark Twain Annual 11 (Fall 2013): 62-76.
  15. Pandey, S., Voorsluys, W., Rahman, M., Buyya, R., Chiu, K., and Dobson, J. “A Grid Workflow Environment for Brain Imaging Analysis on Distributed Systems,” Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 21, no. 16 (2009): 2118-2139.
  16. Pandey, S., Voorsluys, W., Rahman, M., Buyya, R., Chiu, K., and Dobson, J. “Brain Image Registration Analysis Workflow for fMRI Studies on Global Grids,” Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (May 2009).
  17. Dobson, J., Woodward, J., Schwarz, S.A, Marchesini, J.C, Farid, H., and Smith S., “The Dartmouth Green Grid,” Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Science - Volume Part II (2005): 99-106.
  18. Van Horn, J.D., Wolfe, J., Agnoli, A., Woodward, J., Schmitt, M., Dobson, J., Schumacher, S., and Vance, B. “Neuroimaging Databases as a Resource for Scientific Discovery,” International Review of Neurobiology 66 (2005): 55-87.
  19. Zhao, Y., Dobson, J., Foster, I., Moreau L., Wilde, M. “A Notation and System for Expressing and Executing Cleanly Typed Workflows on Messy Scientific Data,” ACM SIGMOD Record 34 (2005): 37-43.
  20. Zhao, Y., Wilde, M., Foster, I., Voeckler, J., Dobson, J., Gilbert, E., Jordan, T. and Quigg, E. “Virtual Data Grid Middleware Services for Data-intensive Science.” Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 18, no. 6 (2004): 595-608.
  21. Zhao, Y., Wilde, M., Foster, I., Voeckler, J., Jordan, T., Quigg, E., and Dobson J., “Grid Middleware Services for Virtual Data Discovery, Composition, and Integration,” MGC ’04 Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Middleware for Grid Computing (2004): 57-62.

Book Chapters

  1. “Knowing and Narration: Shirley Jackson and the Campus Novel.” In Shirley Jackson: Influences and Confluences, ed. Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kröger, 123-141. New York: Routledge, 2016.
  2. Van Horn, J.D., Dobson, J., Woodward, J., Wilde, M., Zhao, Y., Voeckler, J., Foster, I. “Grid-Based Computing and the Future of Neuroscience Computation.” In Methods in Mind, eds. Michael Gazzaniga, Carl Senior, and Tamara Russell, 141-170. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006.

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