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David L. Hoover

Professor of English ; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of English
Ph.D. 1980 (English language), M.A. 1974 (English Language), Indiana; B.A. 1971 (English and Philosophy), Manchester College.

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Personal Homepage:  http://homepages.nyu.edu/~dh3/

Areas of Research/Interest: authorship attribution, linguistic stylistics, statistical stylistics, corpus stylistics, humanities computing, English language, animal language and cognition, Old English meter

Select Publications:

"Testing Burrows’s Delta." Literary and Linguistic Computing, 19(4) 2004: 453-475.
"Delta Prime?" Literary and Linguistic Computing, 19(4) 2004: 477-495.
"Altered Texts, Altered Worlds, Altered Styles." Language and Literature, 13(2) 2004: 99–118.
Language and Style in The Inheritors. Lanham, MD, University Press of America. 1999.
A New Theory of Old English Meter. New York: Peter Lang. 1985.

Affiliations: Executive Council, Association for Computers and the Humanities; Editorial Board, Language and Literature; Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing; Modern Language Association; Poetics and Linguistics Association; Northeast Association for Computers in the Humanities; Chair, MLA Discussion Group on Computer Studies in Language and Literature, 2000

Fellowships/Honors: Visiting Scholar, University of Lancaster (UK), fall 2002

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