Meredith Martin
Biography
Meredith Martin is Professor of English at Princeton University and founding director of the Center for Digital Humanities, which celebrated its first decade in 2024. She is author, most recently, of Poetry’s Data: Digital Humanities and the History of Prosody (Princeton University Press, 2025) and The Rise and Fall of Meter: Poetry and English National Culture 1860-1930 (Princeton University Press, 2012). Her current books in progress include Data Work in the Humanities (Princeton University Press) and, with Mary Naydan and Rebecca Koeser, Beyond the Walled Gardens: Literary Research in the Digital Age. She co-edits The Journal of Cultural Analytics with Tanya Clement and Amelia Acker, and with Dr. Wouter Havarals is co-PI on the “Exercises in Literary Style” project. At Princeton, she oversees the “Modeling Culture” seminar as part of the Humanities & AI research cluster, and serves on the Executive Committees for the Princeton AI Lab, The Princeton Language and Intelligence Center, the Data-Driven Social Sciences Initiative, and sits on the Steering Committees for the Princeton Humanities Initiative and the Research Software Engineering group. With Megan Ward and Sarah Reiff Conell, she co-edits the Nineteenth-Century Data Collective, and she teaches courses in poetry and critical data studies.