Paul Vierthaler
Associate Faculty Director
Ph.D., East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University
M.A., East Asian Studies, Yale University
Paul is an Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature and Interdisciplinary Data Science at Princeton. As a scholar of late Imperial Chinese literature and print history, his current research primarily focuses on historical narratives written in unofficial and fictive genres (e.g., novels, dramas, and unofficial histories). He is also a specialist in the digital humanities, particularly as they apply to Chinese studies (including natural language processing, stylometry, social network analysis, and GIS).
Related projects
Modeling Culture: New Humanities Practices in the Age of AI
A year-long seminar for faculty and grads with a public lecture series, culminating in a comprehensive and accessible curriculum for advanced humanities researchers.
Related events
Digitally Detecting the Strange: Crime, Ghosts, and Other Odd Things in Late Imperial China
Hacking Chinese Studies: An Introduction to Text Mining for Chinese Literature and Culture
