Gabrielle Kirilloff

Gabi Kirilloff is an Assistant Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, affiliated with the Department of English and the Humanities Digital Workshop. Her research focuses on digital humanities, cultural analytics, and the intersection of gender, agency, and literature. She employs computational methods alongside close reading to analyze large textual corpora, particularly examining reader address in 19th and 20th-century Anglophone novels.

Education:

• PhD, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• MA, University of Rochester
• BA, University of Pittsburgh

Research Interests:

Kirilloff's work explores digital humanities, cultural analytics, women's writing, and 19th and 20th-century American literature. She investigates how computational analysis can uncover patterns in textual corpora, particularly regarding gender stereotypes and agency. Her projects include studying reader address in novels to highlight subversions by female and African American authors. She also engages with video game studies and the application of machine learning in literary analysis.

Publications & Projects:

Her research has been published in journals such as College Literature, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, and Cultural Analytics. She contributed to large-scale digital projects like The William Blake Archive, The Walt Whitman Archive, and The Willa Cather Archive. Her current book project, Keeping the Reader Close, uses computational methods to analyze reader address in over 3,000 novels.

Teaching & Leadership:

Kirilloff teaches courses on women's writing, digital methods, computational analysis, and video games. She previously led an interdisciplinary team at the Nebraska-Literary Lab, using machine learning to study gender stereotypes in 19th-century novels.

Affiliations:

She is part of the Humanities Digital Workshop and holds an office in Duncker Hall 125. Her work bridges traditional literary studies with computational methodologies, fostering innovative approaches in the digital humanities.