John Regan
Dr John Regan is Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities at Royal Holloway, University of London. His academic interests lie in two different but related fields. The first is the use of digital tools for the identification of knowledge structures in large data sets that are latent and invisible at the level of the individual human reader. He has published two books investigating these large-scale epistemes in eighteenth-century British corpora- Semantic Change and Collective Knowledge in 18th C Britain (Bloomsbury 2023) and The Transmission of Knowledge in 18th C Britain (Routledge, 2025). He is currently writing a third book using the same method, this time articulating large-scale epistemic change in 17th C British corpora. On the other side of his academic life he is interested in verse, aesthetics and history. In this area he published his first monograph with Anthem Press, entitled Poetry and the Idea of Progress, in 2018. He has just finished a British Academy-funded research project entitled Climate Keywords: Towards a Digital Analysis of Environmental Concepts in the UN Corpus.