Erin A. McCarthy is Established Professor of English Literature and Computational Humanities. She is alsothe Principal Investigator of the Irish Research Council and European Research Council-funded project STEMMA:Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1475-1700. Sheis a graduate of Arizona State University (BA 2005) and The Ohio State University (MA 2007; PhD with Certificate in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2012). Her doctoral work was supported by an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studiesand OSUsUniversity andPresidential Fellowships.From 2014 to 2018, she was a postdoctoral researcher on the European Research Council-funded project RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Womens Writing, 1550-1700. In 2019, she held the Katharine F. Pantzer Jr. Fellowship in Descriptive Bibliography at Harvard Universitys Houghton Library before taking up her appointment as Lecturer in Digital Humanities and English at the University of Newcastle (Australia). She was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2022 and retains an affiliation with UON as an Honorary Professor.Most recently, Erin has been awarded an IRC Consolidator Laureate Award and an ERC Consolidator grantfor her project STEMMA:Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse. The project, which runs from September 2022 to August 2028, computationallymaps and models the movement of English poetry through early modern social networks. It will apply insights from network analysis and graph theory to provide the most comprehensive overview of the circulation of early modern English verse in manuscript to date. Erin isthe author of Doubtful Readers: Print, Poetry, and the Reading Public - No restriction (Oxford University Press, 2020), which was named an Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE in 2021. She is currently completing a second monograph, The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Womens Writing in Manuscript Miscellanies, 1550-1700, with Marie-Louise Coolahan and Sajed Chowdhury. Her scholarship has also appeared in the journals John Donne Journal, SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, the Review of English Studies , and Criticism as well edited collections, reference works, and online Public - No restrictionations.

Early modern British literature, palaeography and manuscript studies, bibliography and the history of the book, the history of reading, Shakespeare, Donne, poetry and poetics, womens writing, postcolonial and archipelagic approaches, scholarly editing, computational methods, cultural analytics, digital humanities