Bard Faculty News
Matt Lavin
Associate Professor of Data Analytics
Primary Academic Program: Data Analytics
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Computational Science
Matthew J. Lavin is an associate professor of data analytics at Bard College. He earned a PhD in English from the University of Iowa in 2012; a master’s degree in American studies at Utah State University in 2006; and a bachelor’s degree at St. Lawrence University in 2002. Lavin has held positions as a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellow (2013-14) at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln’s Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH); Associate Program Coordinator for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Initiative “Crossing Boundaries: Re-Envisioning the Humanities for the 21st Century” at St. Lawrence University (2013-2015); Clinical Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Digital Media Lab at the University of Pittsburgh (2015-2020); and Assistant Professor of Data Analytics at Denison University (2020-2026).
Lavin’s scholarship focuses on how cultural analytics (CA) modes of inquiry can advance literary studies, book history, and digital humanities (DH), while engaging critically with tools and methods that require adaptation or iteration to make sense in humanities contexts. His publications have appeared in Auto|Biography Studies, Cather Studies, CA: The Journal of Cultural Analytics, Digital Humanities Quarterly, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, The Journal of Open Humanities Data, The Programming Historian, Studies in the Novel, and Western American Literature, among others.