Culture, Theory, Data: An Introduction

The introduction to a special issue of New Literary History titled "Culture, Theory, Data," which explores the consequences of computation for cultural theory—and vice-versa. The introduction begins by explaining how we came to a historical juncture where "culture" and "data" seem to be opposed terms. Then it offers some reasons for believing that opposition is beginning to fade, including the emergence of "a new theoretical lingua franca" that draws meaning simultaneously from quantitative and from qualitative disciplines. The authors end by observing that reflection on the intersection of culture and data is particularly urgent in an era of generative language models

Publication, Power, and Patronage: On Inequality and Academic Publishing

<div>This data set accompanies our article, "Publication, Power, and Patronage: On Inequality and Academic Publishing," Critical Inquiry (July 2017): http://bit.ly/2vv5s2H</div><div><br></div>The data set contains metadata on institutional affiliation for over 5,000 academic articles published in four high-prestige journals within the humanities (PMLA, Critical Inquiry, New Literary History, Representations). Included in the metadata are the author's institutional affiliation at time of publication, the author's PhD institution, and the author's gender. 3,000+ authors are represented from over 300 PhD-granting institutions and 700 authorial institutions. We also include supplementary data on gender and publication on another 2,800 articles published since 2010 in 16 further journals. R code included to calculate all results, tables, and graphs.<br