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Richard Jean So is an Associate Professor at McGill University, specializing in computational and quantitative methods for literary and cultural studies, digital humanities, American literature, and Asian American writing. His work bridges traditional humanities scholarship with data-driven analysis, focusing on race, identity, and narrative structures. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and a B.A. from Brown University.
- Ph.D. English and Comparative Literature (Columbia University)
- B.A. Literature and Economics (Brown University)
His research explores topics such as racial inequality in postwar fiction, transpacific cultural networks, and the intersection of AI with literary analysis. Recent work emphasizes ethical AI applications in humanities and computational studies of race in literature.
Publications include Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction (2020) and Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network (2016). His articles address themes like distant reading, economic influences on literature, and global literary flows.
