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Richard Jean So

Rhodes Chair in Digital Humanities and Associate Professor of English Duke University

Biography

Richard Jean So is Rhodes Chair in Digital Humanities and Associate Professor of English at Duke University. He specializes in the use of computational and AI methods to study culture and the arts at scale, and increasingly studies the role that cultural and humanistic theory will play in shaping and improving AI systems. He publishes in both humanistic journals and science proceedings, such as Critical Inquiry, PMLA and ACL and PNAS. His most recent book is Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction (Columbia UP 2021).

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Global Literary Networks

Global Literary Networks

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 ...

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