Kenton Rambsy

Kenton Rambsy is an Associate Professor of African American Literature at Howard University's College of Arts & Sciences. He serves as a data storytelling & visualization specialist at the Center for Applied Data Science and Analytics (CADSA), focusing on computational approaches to literary analysis.

• Research intersects African American short fiction, Hip Hop culture, and book history
• Co-founder of The Literary Data Gallery
• Author of The Geographies of African American Short Stories (2022)

His Digital Humanities projects use datasets to reveal patterns in Black writers' and rappers' thematic evolution. He completed his PhD in African American Literature at the University of Kansas in 2015.

Selected publication: 2022 - "How the 'New York Times' Covers Black Writers" (with Howard Rambsy II) explores data-driven analysis of media representation of Black authors.