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Hoyt Long is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College at the University of Chicago. He serves as Chair of his department and directs the Chicago Text Lab while co-directing the Textual Optics Lab. His research spans modern Japanese literature, digital humanities, media history, and cultural analytics.
- Modern Japanese literature
- Media theory and platform studies
- Cultural analytics and computational methods
- Environmental history and book history
Long's recent work focuses on digital media's impact on cultural production, machine translation, and computational approaches to literary studies. His publications highlight intersections of quantitative methods with traditional criticism, including projects on Aozora Bunko, the History of Black Writing, and Japanese text mining.
Scientific awards include the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship, reflecting his leadership in integrating computational methodologies with humanities scholarship. He actively collaborates on digital initiatives and contributes to editorial boards like CA: Journal of Cultural Analytics.
