Katherine Bode
Jenny Davis
Deputy Director, Chief Investigator
Professor Bode completed a PhD in English at the University of Queensland in 2006, and prior to arriving at ANU, held an ARC-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2007–10) at the University of Sydney and a lectureship in English at the University of Tasmania.
Appointed to the ANU's Centre for Digital Humanities Research (then the Digital Humanities Hub) in 2011, Professor Bode headed the Centre from 2011 to 2013. In 2013 she was awarded an ARC-funded Discovery Project to explore Australian and international fiction in digitised 19th-century Australian newspapers (2013–16), and in 2016 moved to a continuing appointment in ANU's School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics. She began an ARC-funded Future Fellowship in 2018, exploring the relationship between computing and reading. She has subsequently received other ARC grants, including a Special Research Initiative, in 2020, to continue her exploration of fiction in digitized Australian newspapers, this time in 20th century newspapers, and a Discovery Grant in 2023, to explore Irishness in Australian literature.
She is author of books including A World of Fiction: Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History (2018) and Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field (2012) and editor of other projects including "Data Worlds" (the inaugural special issue of Critical AI), "To be continued: The Australian Newspaper Fiction Database" (a digital platform, launched in 2018), the edited collections Advancing Digital Humanities: Research, Methods, Theories (2014) and Resourceful Reading: The New Empiricism, eResearch and Australian Literary Studies (2009), and "Reading," a special issue of Australian Literary Studies pubilshed in 2007.