Tom Salyers
PhD Student
Email thomas.salyers@kcl.ac.uk
Digital Humanities
King’s College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London
WC2B 5RL
Tom Salyers is from Denver, Colorado in the US, where he obtained a BA in Theatre with a minor in Linguistics at the Metropolitan State College of Denver before moving to the UK to complete an MFA in Staging Shakespeare at the University of Exeter. He is in his first year of PhD study, working on a method of stylometric authorship attribution based on the distribution of grammatical sentence patterns in Elizabethan dramatic texts (such as Titus Andronicus, on which William Shakespeare may have collaborated with George Peele). He is supervised by Willard McCarty.
Before returning to higher education, he had a career in the Information Technology field, primarily as a software developer in such areas as telephony and health care. He still does part-time work in the field when possible.
His main research interests include computational linguistics and the history of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre