Louis T. Milic
Louis T. Milic (1922 – 31 December 2003) was a scholar of stylistics and an early practitioner of what would later be called the digital humanities. Born in Yugoslavia, he spent his teenage years in New York and took his PhD at Columbia in 1963 — a computer-assisted study of Jonathan Swift's prose that stands among the first computational dissertations in literary study. He taught at Teachers College from 1955 to 1969, chaired the English department at Cleveland State University from 1969 to 1978, and remained on its faculty until retiring in 1991. In 1971 the Cleveland State University Poetry Center published his 'Program ERATO', poems generated on the university's IBM 360/50. It is likely the first volume of computer poetry published in the United States — preceded internationally only by Jean A. Baudot's 'La machine à écrire' (1964), Manfred Krause and Götz F. Schaudt's 'Computer-Lyrik' (1967), and Alison Knowles and James Tenney's 'A House of Dust' (c. 1968). Beyond his own generated work, Milic was the form's most prominent scholar and advocate writing in English during its first two decades, and later built the Century of Prose Corpus, a half-million-word historical database.
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