{"id":24368,"date":"2018-10-23T17:41:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T22:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/?post_type=pbauthor&#038;p=24368"},"modified":"2018-10-23T19:51:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T00:51:31","slug":"richard-jean-so","status":"publish","type":"pbauthor","link":"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/author\/richard-jean-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Jean So"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Jean So is an assistant professor of English and Cultural Analytics at McGill University. He specializes in data science and computational approaches to the humanities, American literature and culture in particular. His first book is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powells.com\/book\/transpacific-community-9780231176965?p_isbn&amp;partnerid=37407\"><em>Transpacific Community<\/em> <\/a>(Columbia University Press, 2016) and he has published articles in <em>Critical Inquiry<\/em>, <em>PMLA<\/em>, <em>Representations<\/em>, and elsewhere. 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