| Combining large datasets, social scientific methods, and close reading approaches, this project investigated the social dimensions of modernist literary history and aesthetics. |
Global Literary Networks was a two-year digital humanities research project that examined the production, diffusion, and reception of literature on a macro-interpretative scale using tools of network analysis and network visualization. Combining large datasets, social scientific methods, and textual close reading, this project investigated the social dimensions of modernist literary history and aesthetics in the twentieth century by de-framing traditional literary categories – such as influence and dissemination – and introducing and adapting new categories from other disciplines. Using modernist poetry from the United States as the starting point, the project branched out to Japan, China, and Latin America to track the relation between modernist poetic activities in different national contexts. The project brought together theoreticians and technicians from literary studies, sociology, computer science, statistics, and visual design to explore new approaches to the analysis, preservation, and presentation of “big data”; new media platforms for processing, displaying, and disseminating digitally inflected work; and team-based scholarship.
Associate Professor of Japanese Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
University of Chicago
Hoyt Long's research centers on modern Japan, with specific interests in the history of media and communication, cultural analytics, sociology of literature, book history, and environmental history. Cultural analytics has been a primary area of interest since 2010. Long has written and...
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish & Portuguese
University of California, Berkeley
Tom McEnaney works on the history of media and technology, Argentine, Cuban, and U.S. literature, sound studies, linguistic anthropology, computational (digital) humanities, and new media studies. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and serves on the...
Assistant Professor, Department of English
McGill University
Richard Jean So is an associate professor of English and Cultural Analytics at McGill University. He works at the intersection of cultural analysis and data science. So uses data-driven methods to study culture, both historical and contemporary, from the novel to Netflix to social media and...
