Matthew Wilkens

Matthew Wilkens is associate professor of information science at Cornell University, where he works on data-intensive approaches to literary studies. He is the author of Revolution: The Event in Postwar Fiction (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), a cofounder of the Journal of Cultural Analytics, and the director of the Textual Geographies project.


Advertisement

Writing on Public Books

Is American Fiction Too Provincial?

While most American fiction focuses on national concerns, its high-end, prize-winning fiction looks around the globe. Why the divide?