Christopher Warren

Christopher Warren is a Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University, with a Courtesy Appointment in History and roles as Associate Department Head and director of CMU's minor in Humanities Analytics (HumAn). He is co-founder of the digital humanities project Six Degrees of Francis Bacon and a founding member of the Center for Print, Networks, and Performance (CPNP), while co-convening the Digital Humanities Faculty Research Group.

• Education:
  • BA, English, Dartmouth College (1999)
  • MA, English, Georgetown University (2003)
  • DPhil, English, University of Oxford (2008)

Warren's research spans Digital Humanities, Law and Literature, Political Theory, Early Modern Literature, Print Culture, and the History of Political Thought. His current project, Freedom and the Press before Freedom of the Press, uses machine learning to recover anonymous craftsmen in early modern clandestine printing. His 2015 monograph Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680 (Oxford University Press) examines intersections between literary genres and foundational international legal concepts.

His publications focus on 17th-century literature, computational bibliography, and network analysis, with recent work appearing in Shakespeare Quarterly, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and ArXiv:CS. Articles often address Thomas Hobbes, John Milton, and Shakespeare through lenses of political philosophy, anonymity in print culture, and historical legal frameworks.

• Scientific Awards:
  • Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature (2016)

Warren actively mentors graduate students in Early Modern Studies, Digital Humanities, and Print Culture, and advocates for humanities funding through the National Humanities Alliance. He previously held positions at Oxford University, University College London, NUI-Galway, and the University of Chicago.