Siddharth Bhogra is a PhD student in English at the University of Washington, Seattle, before which he studied Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a computational humanist interested in how literature registers, conspires with, and is disloyal to empire, broadly construed; and specifically attentive to indigeneity and form across the long 20th century. His project at the Simpson Center uses machine learning to track the understudied literary device of description, across a vast corpus of 20th century novels, and explore how regimes of description reveal shifts in historiography and thus rearrangements in conceptions of the “common world.”