David L. Hoover

Professor of English and Webmaster, Department of English
New York University

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Welcome to the Home Page of the David Hoover, the Webmaster of the NYU English Department.
It should not be confused with his home.

Profile

Education: PhD, 1980, Indiana University; MA, 1974, Indiana University; AB, 1971, Manchester College.

Major Interests: corpus stylistics, humanities computing, authorship attribution, computational stylistics, linguistic stylistics, animal language and cognition, English language, Old English meter.

Selected works:
Approaches to Corpus Stylistics, Routledge, forthcoming (with Jonathan Culpeper and Bill Louw)
Stylistics: Prospect & Retrospect, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007.
Language and Style in The Inheritors, Lanham, MD: UPA, 1999.
A New Theory of Old English Meter, Berne, Peter Lang, 1985.

"Tree Bellicose Graph," a wrenched fairy tale, 2002.

Memberships:
MLA
Association for Computers and the Humanities
Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
PALA (The Poetics and Linguistics Association)
Pictures from the 2001 PALA conference in Budapest
MLA Discussion Group on Computer Studies in Language and Literature (Chair, 2000)
 

C.V.

Research Project:

Literary Vocabulary: A Study of Ten Writers -- Research into the Growth and Decay of Vocabulary in Novelists of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Web Projects:

spinning globeEnglish Department Home Pages Worldwide (the largest collection of English Department Home Pages on the World Wide Web)

The Delta Spreadsheets--automated spreadsheets with macros to calculate Burrows's Delta and some alternatives and analyze results.

The Zeta and Iota Spreadsheet--an automated spreadsheet with macros to calculate Burrows's Zeta and Iota and analyze results.

NYU English Department Homepage

Visit The Electronic Frontier Foundation for information about the recent attacks on freedom of speech in cyberspace..

Some of my favorite topics:

The Alex Foundation--Communication and Intelligence of Parrots
  Lots of fascinating information about Alex, the Grey Parrot, who understands spoken English and produces meaningful speech.

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh's Home Page
  Lots of fascinating information about Kanzi and other Chimps who understand spoken English; A link to some interviews with Savage-Rumbaugh.

Language, Cognition, and the Brain
  Research at the intersection of literary studies, cognitive theory, and neuroscience.
 
 

My Roots:

Me
And me again

Me and my sisters at Lookout Mountain Tennessee

My maternal grandparents
My mother and her seven sisters
My mother and eleven of her twelve sibblings


My father's family (he is the handsome son on the left)
My father's family (he is the youngest)
My father's grandparents (left) and great grandparents

 

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