He specializes in computational text analysis and theory of new media. Steve is the author of Reading Machines: Toward an Algorithmic Criticism (University of Illinois Press, 2011) and is at work (with Patrick Juola) on a book for Oxford University Press entitled Mathematics for the Humanist. He is a co-investigator with Brian Pytlik-Zillig on Abbot -- an interoperability framework for large-scale text corpora.