Michael Fox

Michael Fox is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior roles include Senior Lecturer and Academic Director for the Digital Studies of Language, Culture, and History program at the University of Chicago, and Assistant Editor/Software Architect of the William Blake Archive. He holds a PhD in English and BS in Computer Science.

His research bridges literary criticism and information science, focusing on digital humanities, AI ethics, and textual studies. Key areas include graph databases, network analysis, and AI methods in literary history, alongside studies of Aestheticism, poetics, and literary history. His first book examines intersections between literary and historical writing, using computational approaches like graph databases.

Michael has contributed to the William Blake Archive, a pioneering digital humanities project, and serves on the editorial board of Textual Cultures. His courses span literature, information science, and their intersections (e.g., Digital Humanities, The Idea of AI).

His work earned the ADE 2017 Featured Project award for the Blake Archive's redesign. Grants and advising details are pending explicit mentions in texts.