David L. Hoover
Professor of EnglishPh.D. 1980 (English language), M.A. 1974 (English Language), Indiana; B.A. 1971 (English and Philosophy), Manchester College.
Office Address: 19 University Pl, 508 New York, New York (US) 10003
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Phone: (212) 998-8832
Fax: (212) 995-4019
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David L. Hoover received his B.A. in English and Philosophy from Manchester College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English Language from Indiana University and has taught at NYU since 1981. His research interests include the digital humanities, computational stylistics, corpus stylistics, and authorship attribution. His most recent books are Stylistics: Prospect and Retrospect and Language and Style in The Inheritors. He is active in the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, the MLA, and PALA (The Poetics and Linguistics Association), and serves on the editorial boards of Language and Literature, and Digital Studies / Le champ numérique, and the book series “Linguistics Approaches to Literature.” He teaches Introduction to Literature, Computers and Literary Studies, Stylistics, Chaucer, The History of the English Language, and The Structure of Modern English.
Areas of Research/Interest
authorship attribution, linguistic stylistics, statistical stylistics, corpus stylistics, humanities computing, English language, animal language and cognition, Old English meter
External Affiliations
Editorial Boards: Language and Literature, "Linguistics Approaches to Literature," Benjamin, Digital Studies, Le champ numérique
Fellowships/Honors
Visiting Professor, Huygens Institute, The Hague, Netherlands, 2010
Publications
Stylistics: Prospect & Retrospect. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007 (editor, with Sharon Lattig).
Language and Style in The Inheritors. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1999.
"An Exercise in Non-Ideal Authorship Attribution: The Mysterious Maria Ward," LLC 24(4), 2009: 467-489; with Shervin Hess.
"Text Alteration as Interpretive Teaching Method: The Case of 'The Snow Man,'" Style 42(4) 2008: 468-83.
"Searching for Style in Modern American Poetry," in Sonia Zyngier, et. al. (eds), Directions in Empirical Literary Studies: Essays in Honor of Willie van Peer, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2008: 211-27.
