Ed Kearns is an early-career researcher specialising in digital humanities studies of literature. He completed his IRC-funded PhD at the University of Galway in 2021; his thesis title was ‘Measuring Moments: Annotating and Quantifying Narrative Time Disruptions in Modernist and Hypertext Fiction’. He has previously worked as a research assistant on digital projects at the University of Galway and the University of Limerick, and he was a founding member of the research exchange network Modernist Studies Ireland.
He brings this digital humanities experience to his research assistant role on Theatronomics, in which he creates procedures for entering data, cleans and consolidates individual records in the database, and sources additional historical financial material.
