Hugh is from the University of Newcastle, Australia and is in Victoria on sabbatical leave until the end of June, attached to the ETCL. He works in computational stylistics, and with collaborators at UMass, Amherst he recently published Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship (Cambridge, 2009).
While in Victoria he plans to do more work on authorship problems in Early Modern English drama, especially in the period 1580-99, and explore some other questions like linguistic drift and vocabulary richness using a broad-based corpus. He is especially interested in potential collaborations with the computing humanists at UVic in areas such as visualisation and distant reading.
We look forward to having Hugh in the ETCL!