Researcher
Chris works at the intersection of humanities and computation. He is a poet, translator, and one of Asymptote Journal’s Editors-at-Large.
His research and creative work—under the alias MARGENTO—combine his interest in graph theory, natural language processing, literature, translation and performance. In 2018, he published US Poets Foreign Poets, a computationally-assembled poetry anthology in algorithmic translation (Fractalia, 2018) and he is currently working on a second instalment, a computationally assembled anthology of Belgian-Francophone poetry (forthcoming from Peter Lang). At the University of Galway, he works on the analysis of multilingual and multimodal datasets that are relevant for the 19th century Catholic publishing industry in Europe and beyond (PIETRA: Translation & Communication).