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SUMMARY:Publishing Empire: Modeling Early 20th-Century British Book Cultur
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DESCRIPTION:\n\n  What constituted British literature at the turn of the 2
 0th century? What did the term mean to metropolitan readers after a centur
 y of unprecedented imperial expansion? This talk draws on industry-wide pu
 blishing data to explore the output of London’s book business\, emphasiz
 ing the influence of high-profile authors from colonized nations on Britis
 h print in the early 20th century. In particular\, Anna Preus traces the g
 roundbreaking publishing careers of Bengali authors Sarojini Naidu and Rab
 indranath Tagore\, discussing how their successes in England shifted under
 standings of British literature\, creating a version of the category that 
 encompassed great works by writers from across the empire.Anna Preus is an
  assistant professor in the English department at the University of Washin
 gton\, where she studies and teaches 20th-century British and Anglophone l
 iterature and data science in the humanities. Her work has appeared or is 
 forthcoming in ELH: English Literary History\, Feminist Modernist Studies\
 , Modernism/modernity Print Plus\, EMNLP: Empirical Methods in Natural Lan
 guage Processing\, and the edited collection Expressive Networks: Poetry a
 nd Platform Cultures. She is involved in a number of collaborative digital
  projects\, including The Paris Project\, Responsible Datasets in Context\
 , and the Cultural Analytics Research and Teaching Initiative\, and her re
 search has been supported by ACLS\, the Mellon Foundation\, and the Mozill
 a Foundation. At UW\, Anna leads the Humanities Data Lab and serves as cor
 e faculty in the Textual Studies program.\n\n\n\n  \n    \n    Modeling Cu
 lture talks\n    \n\n  \n\n\n\n  Throughout 2025–26\, CDH will host six 
 public talks by leading scholars in Cultural Analytics. Open to all\, the 
 series invites audiences to explore the histories\, theories\, and practic
 es that shape the evolving intersection of AI and the humanities.\n\n\n\n 
  \n    \n    Modeling Culture project\n    \n\n  \n\n\n\n  Since the relea
 se of ChatGPT\, conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) have gene
 rated both excitement and concern across the humanities. Much of the debat
 e has focused on political and ethical questions—bias\, labor\, environm
 ental impact\, and intellectual property—as well as the effects of large
  language models (LLMs) on teaching and learning. Yet one question remains
  underexplored: how might AI contribute directly to humanities scholarship
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   \n    \n    Sponsors\n    \n\n  \n\n\n\n  Modeling Culture is generously
  funded by an AI Lab Seed grant\, with additional support from the Humanit
 ies Council and the Princeton Humanities Initiative. Thank you to the Depa
 rtment of English for co-sponsorship of the public talks.\n\n\nhttps://cdh
 .princeton.edu/events/2025/11/anna-preus/
LOCATION:Center for Digital Humanities\, Firestone Library\, Floor B
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