Sarah Allison

Sarah Allison is an Associate Professor of English and Hutchinson Distinguished Professor at Loyola University New Orleans, specializing in Romantic and Victorian literature. Her research bridges close reading with digital humanities methods, focusing on debates about art's purpose and reductive analytical frameworks.

• Ph.D., Stanford University (2012)

Her scholarship explores the interplay between nineteenth-century moralizing and modern computational analysis, as seen in her book Reductive Reading (2018) and co-authored Stanford Literary Lab studies. She is affiliated with Uppsala University’s Section on the Sociology of Literature and Computational Literary Studies Group.

Key publications include analyses of George Eliot’s syntax (2018), Elizabeth Gaskell’s biographical fiction (2017), and a forthcoming book on celebrity authorship (2025). Her work frequently appears in ELH, Genre, and digital humanities platforms.

• Scientific Awards
  • Hutchinson Distinguished Professor

Her current projects examine Swedish textual translation’s impact on literary scholarship and the role of digital tools in uncovering textual patterns across large corpora.