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Lindsay Thomas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University, affiliated with the College of Arts and Sciences. Her work bridges contemporary US literature, cultural studies, and digital humanities. She is the author of Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11 (2021), recognized with the 2021 Book Prize for the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. She co-directed the Mellon Foundation-funded WhatEvery1Says project, analyzing public discourse on humanities through computational methods.
Her research focuses on digital media, sociological aspects of literature, and the evolving length of novels. She teaches courses such as Social Media and Contemporary Literature and Colloquium for Entering Students. Thomas actively contributes to academic communities via GitHub repositories documenting her courses and projects.
Awards include the 2021 book prize, and her scholarship appears in journals like American Literature and Daedalus. She is currently researching the history of novelistic length and its solutions since the mid-20th century.
