Hi I am Matthew Kollmer. I’m a PhD student in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This site contains coursework for Dr. Jill Naiman’s IS445: Data Visualization.
More info on my background can be found at MatthewKollmer.com.
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Research
My primary research applies text mining, data science, and machine learning to the study of U.S. literary history and literary regionalisms. I have accompanying interests in book history, bibliography, and print culture. I’m also interested in digital humanities pedagogy. I also teach IS312 Reading & Writing Data.
My MA thesis was titled "The U.S. Local Color Corpus (USLoCo)". I also taught undergraduate English courses there. I also earned a Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities.
My MFA thesis was a novel titled "They Knew Full Well". Upon graduation, I was hired as an adjunct faculty member at UNLV, teaching undergraduate English classes until 2020. In that time, I also had a career at Bauman Rare Books.