Hoyt Long
Areas of Study: Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations Department of English Language and Literature Website: https://hoytlong.github.io/ Contact: Email Interests:
Modern Japan, with specific interests in the history of media and communication, cultural analytics, sociology of literature, book history, and environmental history
My research and teaching interests range from literature, media, and book history to platform studies, cultural analytics, and generative AI. My most recent monograph, The Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age (2021), offers both a reinterpretation of modern Japanese literature through computational methods and an introduction to the history, theory, and practice of looking at literature through numbers.
Since then, I’ve written articles that rethink literary translation in the wake of neural machine translation, that explore how platforms are reshaping global televisual attention and response, and that consider the possibilities of generative AI for cultural co-intelligence. I’m currently collaborating on projects that include Niche Worlds: How Streaming Platforms Changed Attention and Reception; a set of empirical studies under the banner of cultural AI that investigate the limits and affordances of large-language models as readers, writers, and instructors of literature; and the cross-disciplinary research initiative Humanistic AI: Humanistic Pursuits in the Age of Generated Media.
For more details on my current research projects, publications, courses, and student advising, please visit my personal website.