Michael VanHoose

Michael VanHoose serves as a Postgraduate Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies (IES) within the University of London's School of Advanced Study, while completing doctoral studies at the University of Virginia. Their dual institutional affiliation supports interdisciplinary research at the intersection of literary history and digital humanities.

Research interests center on economics of the Anglophone book trade and material cultures of literary texts, with specialized focus on British Romantic period fiction publishing. Current methodology combines database archaeology with spatial analysis to map historical library distribution patterns across the British Isles through 1850, revealing how physical access infrastructure shaped literary consumption.

As a fellow at IES and the Digital Humanities Research Hub, VanHoose leads the critical restoration of Robin Alston's Library History Database, transforming legacy digital resources into accessible scholarly tools. This project exemplifies their commitment to preserving and revitalizing digital humanities infrastructure for historical literary research.

Through their University of Virginia doctoral work and London fellowship, VanHoose demonstrates a research trajectory that bridges traditional literary scholarship with innovative digital methodologies, contributing to evolving understandings of how economic and physical distribution networks influence literary culture formation.