James Dobson
Associate Professor Of English And Creative Writing
Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolJames Dobson is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College who blends humanistic inquiry with computational methods, bringing a decade of cross-disciplinary experience in literature, digital humanities, neuroimaging, and machine learning. He directs the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric and has transitioned from data science and systems roles into a scholarly career that produced two books—Critical Digital Humanities (2019) and The Birth of Computer Vision (2023)—which bridge media theory and the technical histories of vision. His work routinely couples high-performance computing and text-mining workflows with archival and autobiographical study, revealing how computational practices reshape literary interpretation. Based in Hanover, NH, he combines practical systems experience from the 1990s–2000s with present-day research, an uncommon blend that helps him shepherd collaborative, computationally intensive projects in the humanities.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), English, American Literature, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), English, American Literature at Indiana University BloomingtonEnglish, English at Dartmouth CollegeA.M., Program in the Humanities, A.M., Program in the Humanities at University of ChicagoSMCCB.A., English, B.A., English at University of Massachusetts AmherstBusiness Administration, Business Administration at University of Southern Maine
Github Skills (25)
pytorch10
python10
natural-language-processing10
nlp10
transformers9
machine-learning9
language-model9
bert9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
speech-recognition9
transformer9
jax8
seq2seq7
flax7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jeddobson/jeddobson.github.io
May 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:153 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 11 months
jeddobson/transformers
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
🤗 Transformers: State-of-the-art Machine Learning for Pytorch, TensorFlow, and JAX.
Contributions:25 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
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