John Ladd
Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing and Information Studies at Washington & Jefferson College
John Ladd is an assistant professor in the Department of Computing and Information Studies at Washington & Jefferson College. He teaches and researches on the use of data across a wide variety of domains, especially in cultural and humanities contexts, as well as on the histories of information and technology. Building on an English literature background where he studied the intersection between computational methods and early modern print culture, his work includes large-scale digital humanities projects, such as Six Degrees of Francis Bacon and Early Print. He has published essays and web projects on humanities data science and cultural analytics, computational bibliography, the history of data, and network analysis.
Seminar: AI and LLMs as Tools for the Humanities
How are we shaped by the tools we use? A discussion on the history and application of digital tools in the humanities, introducing concepts from cultural analytics to frame how humanists might approach GenAI, chatbots, and large language models.
Reading List
Reading List
- van Es, Karin. "Unpacking tool criticism as practice, in practice". Digital Humanities Quarterly 17.2 (2023).
- Underwood, Ted. "A more interesting upside of AI". tedunderwood.com (2025).
Keywords
Keywords
digital humanities, cultural analytics, AI, GenAI, chatbot, agent, tool
Public Talk
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Publications
Publications
TBD
Human and Machine Intelligence in Networks of Early Modern Print
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Human and Machine Intelligence in Networks of Early Modern Print: Q&A with John Ladd
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