Ryan Healey is a postdoctoral researcher at the Digital Humanities Lab at the University of Basel. His research comprises a literary history of abstraction in writing and computation from the seventeenth century to today, from the early English novel to the large language model. He received a Ph.D. in English at New York University, where he was a fellow at the Center for the Humanities and a founding member of the Digital Theory Lab, and an M.Phil. at the University of Cambridge, where he collaborated with the Cambridge Concept Lab. He has worked for Verso Books, the David Graeber Institute, and IBM Research. His research on a computational approach to eighteenth-century genres appeared in Representations, and his essays have been published in Bookforum, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The New Inquiry.
ryan.healey@unibas.ch
“The Uses of Genre: Is There An ‘Adam Smith Question?’” with Peter de Bolla, Ewan Jones, Paul Nulty, and Gabriel Recchia, Representations 149, Winter 2020.
Review of Erich Kästner’s “Going to the Dogs.” Bookforum, January 10, 2013.
Two essays for the Los Angeles Review of Books. On Enrique-Vila Matas (August 31, 2012) and Bernard Comment (December 16, 2012).
On the student strike at McGill, The New Inquiry, June 20, 2012.
“Cruise Control.” Harper’s. November 2011. Translation from the Arabic.
Review of Thomas Glynn’s “The Building.” Tin House, Fall 2012.
Review of Amara Lakhous’s “Divorce Islamic Style.” Bookforum, April 26, 2012.