A fact is a holy thing, and its life should never be laid down on the altar of a generalization
(A. N. Nock)

Selected Bibliography

The Chicago Homer: a multilingual web site that uses the search and display capabilities of digital media to make distinctive features of Early Greek epic accessible to readers with and without Greek.

English Diachronic Digital Annotated Corpus (EDDAC)

Towards a digital carrel: a report about corpus query tools

NUPOS: a part of speech tag set for written English from Chaucer to the present day

Back to the future, or, Wanted: A Decade of High-tech Lower Criticism

Martin Mueller was educated at the Universities of Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Trinity College, Dublin, and Indiana University, where he got a PhD in Classics (1966). He taught at Brandeis University (1965-67) and  the University of Toronto (1967-76) before moving to Northwestern University, where he has taught since 1976. At Northwestern he has held various administrative positions, including Director of Comparative Literature (1976-81), Director of the Humanities Program (1979-81), Chair of the English Department (1983-90), and Acting Chair of Hispanic Studies (1997-99).

His primary research field has been the uses of ancient epic and tragedy by European writers since the Renaissance. He has also written on Homer and Shakespeare. More recently he has become interested in the uses of information technology for traditional philological inquiries.  Together with Ahuvia Kahane, he is the editor of The Chicago Homer, a multilingual web site that uses the search and display capabilities of digital media to make distinctive features of Early Greek epic accessible to readers with and without Greek. He is the general editor of WordHoard, an application for the close reading and scholarly analysis of deeply tagged texts, and one of the editors of the MONK Project, a digital environment designed to help humanities scholars discover and analyze patterns in the texts they study .