Matthew Choi Taitano

Matthew Choi Taitano

Matthew Choi Taitano (he/him) is a scholar whose main research interests are at the intersection of digital humanities and Victorian studies. He also has an interest in literary genres (particularly the memoir), and the relationship among language, race, gender, class, and power.

Matthew was born and raised in the U.S. Territory of Guam to a Korean mother and native CHamoru father. He speaks fluently in English and Korean. He graduated with an A.B. in English, and Certificates in African American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies, from Princeton University in 2020. He graduates with an M.A. in English and Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities from Northeastern University in 2023. Matthew is also part of the following scholarship/fellowship programs: HASTAC Scholars Program (2022), Leadership Alliance Fellowship (2017), Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (2016), and Gates Millennium Scholars Program (2014). He hopes to continue his academic career through a Ph.D. program in English and, thereafter, the professoriate or a research position in a digital humanities center/group or library.

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Linked Data More Than a Millennium Old

6 February 2020

Organizing and comparing more than 12,000 pages of text written by dynasties separated by one hundred and fifty years is no easy task. But this is exactly what Professor Anna Shields in Princeton's East Asian Studies (EAS) department and her team are working toward in their Tang History Database, with support from the Center for Digital Humanities' dataset curation grants.
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Tracking the Sounds of Early Chinese Texts

19 December 2019

How did puns and clichés function in ancient societies? The Digital Intertextual Resonances in Early Chinese Texts (DIRECT) Project helps scholars of ancient China ask these kinds of questions and more, including: what did ancient Chinese sound like? How do these phonetic qualities highlight the ways in which similar sounds in ancient Chinese texts obfuscate their original meanings?
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The Researcher and the Mysterious Note on the Library Card

7 November 2019

Who knew that something as innocuous as a library lending record could be connected to the life of a refugee escaping during a time of war?

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