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I'm an English professor, literary critic, and data scientist, studying the art and (data) science of how literature gets made. I'm the author of of MIDDLEMEN: LITERARY AGENTS AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN LITERATURE (forthcoming, Princeton UP)