Marit MacArthur

Marit MacArthur taught writing and literature at CSU Bakersfield for 12 years after earning her Ph.D. in English at UC Davis in 2005. She returned to Davis in 2015-16 as an ACLS Digital Innovations Fellow at UC Davis, where she now teaches in the University Writing Program and is an affiliate faculty member in performance studies. Her work focuses on sound, poetry, and data analysis. You can find sample articles here (Arcade), here (PMLA), and here (Journal of Cultural Analytics). She has been running a user-tester group for new data software to analyze pitch change, rhythm, etc.