Kandice Sharren’s research is shaped by the question of how the materials of literary production shape literary form, which she explores through digital and analogue methods. She completed her SSHRC-funded PhD at Simon Fraser University, and her writing has appeared in Review of English Studies, European Romantic Review, and Huntington Library Quarterly. Through her work as the lead editor of The Women’s Print History Project, she has honed her knowledge of database design and podcast production. She brings this experience to Theatronomics in order to ask to what extent it is possible to quantify literary and theatrical failure.