The Black Book Interactive Project (BBIP) - part of the University of Kansas's History of Black Writing project (HBW) - is a digital archive of over 7,000 Black-authored texts. It launched in 2010 and has received funding from KU, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. PhiloLogic, a searchable online metadata platform from the Textual Optics Lab at the University of Chicago, powers BBIP's HBW Novel Corpus.
These webinars are part of BBIP's Extending the Reach Scholars Program: a series of live event digital humanities webinars conducted by BBIP community partners and advisors that inform and support the scholars’ work.
Hoyt Long is an associate professor of Japanese Literature at the University of Chicago. He is the author of On Uneven Ground: Miyazawa Kenji and the Making of Place in Modern Japan (2012) and publishes widely in the fields of media history and cultural analytics. He co-founded the Chicago Text Lab with Richard Jean So and currently co-directs the Textual Optics Lab, which focuses on creating large-scale, multi-lingual text collections and developing tools to explore them. Recent publications include “Race, Writing, and Computation: Racial Difference and the US Novel, 1880-2000” (Journal of Cultural Analytics, 2019) and “Self-Repetition and East Asian Literary Modernity, 1900-1930” (Journal of Cultural Analytics, 2018). He is currently finishing a book manuscript, "Figures of Difference," that reframes the history of modern Japanese literature through quantitative methods and their capacity to reason about differences across multiple scales.
Arnab Chakraborty is a visiting lecturer in English at Birmingham-Southern College. He specializes in American and global environmental literature of the 20th and 21st centuries, with a focus on nonhuman representation and ethics. His research studies ethical assumptions and attitudes that inform nonhuman advocacy in fiction and expands definitions of environmentalism that include global, postcolonial, and indigenous perspectives. His teaching interests include contemporary international fiction, theoretical and fictional approaches in the fields of animal studies, posthumanism, and postcolonial ecocriticism, as well as speculative fiction.
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