Rate My Professor Erin McCarthy

Dr. McCarthy's research integrates digital humanities with early modern British literature, employing data-driven methods to explore how books were written, read, and circulated in the 16th and 17th centuries. Her interests encompass the history of reading, book history, manuscript studies, palaeography, poetry and poetics (including Shakespeare and Donne), women's writing, and computational humanities techniques such as coding, data visualization, and quantitative analysis. Key publication is her monograph Doubtful Readers: Print, Poetry, and the Reading Public in Early Modern England (Oxford University Press, 2020), which analyzes publishers' adaptations to new readers of printed poetry. She has contributed to scholarly journals including the John Donne Journal, SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, and Review of English Studies. Notable awards include the 2018 John Donne Society Kate Gartner Frost Award for Best Essay by an Early Career Scholar, 2021 Advance HE Fellowship, multiple Folger Institute Grant-in-Aids (2007,2008,2012,2015), Shakespeare Association of America Graduate Student Travel Awards (2010,2012), and the 2013 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Graduate Student Conference Presentation Award. Her innovative approaches bridge historical literature with modern technology, offering insights into cultural responses to media changes.