Claude Willan

Dr. Claude Willan is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Rowan University's College of Humanities & Social Sciences. He previously served as Director of Digital Humanities Services at the University of Houston Libraries and held postdoctoral positions at Princeton University's Department of English and Center for Digital Humanities. His research focuses on 18th-century literature, digital humanities, and textual scholarship, with notable works including Literary Authority: An Eighteenth-Century Genealogy (Stanford UP, 2023) and co-authorship of Text Technologies: A History (2019).

Willan holds a B.A. and M.St. in English from the University of Oxford, followed by a Ph.D. from Stanford University. His career spans academic roles in both humanities departments and library-based digital scholarship initiatives. His articles explore topics ranging from 18th-century authorship debates to digital methodologies applied to literary analysis.

His recent publications analyze intersections between literary authority and print culture, while earlier work addresses medieval poetry, Enlightenment networks, and textual distortion. Willan's interdisciplinary approach bridges traditional literary studies with digital research methodologies. He has contributed to journals such as English Literary History and Modern Philology, and his current projects continue examining textual histories and digital humanities applications.