# Lindsay Thomas

**Source**: https://americanstudies.cornell.edu/lindsay-thomas
**Parent**: https://americanstudies.cornell.edu/faculty

## Associate Professor

### Overview

Lindsay Thomas's research and teaching focus on the contemporary US literature, cultural studies, and the digital humanities. She is the author of [*Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11*](https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/training-for-catastrophe) (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), which focuses on how fiction shapes contemporary national security. From 2017-2021, she was co-director of [*WhatEvery1Says*](https://we1s.ucsb.edu/), a multi-institutional public humanities project funded by the Mellon Foundation that used computational text analysis to examine public discourse on the value of the humanities on a large scale. Her scholarship and writing have appeared in journals such as *American Literature*, the *Journal of Cultural Analytics*, *Daedalus* and more.She is currently working on a history of “solutions” to the problem of novelistic length since the mid-20th century.

### Research Focus

- Contemporary literature and culture
- Data collection and curation in the humanities
- Computational text analysis
- Digital media
- Sociology of literature

## In the news

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