Craig Messner
Lecturer
Contact Information
Research Interests: Non-standard (dialectal) English of 19th Century literature
Dr. Messner received his PhD in English from UCLA in 2021, subsequently joined the CDH as a post-doctoral researcher focused on the variety of phenomena related to non-standard (dialectal) English of 19th Century literature, and is now building the center's curriculum as the first faculty lecturer.
Current projects
- Narrative time and holographic identity formation
- Literary representations of orthographic variation in the Nineteenth Century
Publications and presentations
- Pairing Orthographically Variant Literary Words to Standard Equivalents Using Neural Edit Distance Models
- BERT: Structure and Knowledge
- Pretrained Transformer Models for the Alignment of Orthographic Variants
- The Numa-rete: A Biologically-Inspired Shape Recognition System
Courses taught
- AS.360.306/606: Computational Intelligence for the Humanities