Hoyt Long
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hoyt Long |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hoyt |
| FAMILY NAME | Long |
| SIGNATURE | LONG H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8562-5426 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The social AI author
This article examines generative AI models as sociocultural actors, focusing on how they reproduce and constrain notions of authorship and identity within the contemporary U.S. literary field. Through a simulation of 101 “AI authors” modeled on real-world counterparts, we analyze how language models articulate literary distinction across race, gender, and publishing contexts. Our findings show that generative outputs are dominated by a reductive …
New Towers of Babel
Covid, Crisis, and the Search for Story in the Platform Age
Wattpad is a popular online writing website in which individuals write, upload, and comment on original stories. In 2020, the platform had more than a hundred million registered users. In this article, we use a mixture of close and distant reading methods to study how lay authors wrote about the COVID-19 global pandemic during its first year. We examine some of the formal and generic norms these authors used to narrativize this event; how such no…
Licentious Fictions
Reviewed by: Licentious Fictions: Ninjō and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel by Daniel Poch Hoyt Long (bio) Licentious Fictions: Ninjō and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel. By Daniel Poch. Columbia University Press, 2020. xii, 290 pages. $65.00, cloth; $64.99, E-book. "Novels are like morphine," says the narrator of Tsubouchi Shōyō's Shinmigaki: Imotose kagami (1885–86): "one must love them, but also fear them." They are loved as a wind…
Learning to Live with Machine Translation
Rapid advancements in technologies of text and image generation have increasingly put the perceived autonomy of human creativity under threat. Even before ChatGPT and other large-language models sent such anxieties into overdrive, literary critics were arguing for a hermeneutics of automatic writing and revisiting long-held assumptions about artistic originality. Few, however, gave much thought to these model's quirky cousins-a family branch that…
Chance Encounters
This essay brings probabilistic reasoning into concerted dialogue with book-historical and sociological approaches to world literature. Using extensive bibliographic data about literary translations into Japanese during the modern era, it develops a series of case studies at interrelated scales—the literary anthology, world library collections, and individual readers—to reason about the likelihood of certain authors or works being plucked from th…
Race, Writing, and Computation
This article seeks to bridge two scholarly fields often seen as incommensurable:cultural analytics (also known as “computational criticism”) and critical racestudies. It does so by discovering generative points of contact between two sets of methods that are also typically viewed as antithetical: data science and critique.Cultural analytics is an emerging field wherein humanist scholars leverage the in-creasing availability of large digital corpo…
Self-Repetition and East Asian Literary Modernity, 1900-1930
Literary readings provoke strong feelings, which feed intense critical de-bates. And while recorded literary readings have long been available for study, few scholars have applied to them the empirical methods that the digitalhumanities and interdisciplinary sound studies now offer
(Il)legibility and Handwriting in Meiji Letters
This article explores the intermedial as a conceptual framework for Asia media critique and history. Although not a new concept in media studies, it proves useful for troubling the divide often imposed on old and new media forms—including technologies of communication—and for theorizing their movement in and across sociocultural contexts. The article both proposes and carries out an intermedial critique of handwriting in early twentieth-century J…
The Undiscovered Country
Reviewed by: The Undiscovered Country: Text, Translation, and Modernity in the Work of Yanagita Kunio by Melek Ortabasi Hoyt Long (bio) The Undiscovered Country: Text, Translation, and Modernity in the Work of Yanagita Kunio. By Melek Ortabasi. Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass., 2014. xiv, 329 pages. $49.95. The humanities are again in a state of crisis. As in previous times, the crisis is refracted through anxieties about the way(…
Literary Pattern Recognition
Fog and Steel
This essay explores the application of social-scientific and computational methods to the study of translation and textual circulation in interwar Japan. Leveraging extensive bibliographic data on modernist poetry journals, as well as techniques such as network analysis and visualization, the essay presents a new model of translation as an affiliative mechanism mediating between diverse communities of writers and the larger literary field in whic…
Network Science and Literary History
This paper introduces a method for applying network analysis to the sociological study of literary history. Focusing on “little magazines” and poetry journals in the U.S., Japan, and China, the authors utilize bibliographic records to construct weighted, bipartite graphs of poets and journals linked by publication. Through visual and quantitative analysis of the resulting networks, the authors aim to augment traditional hermeneutics with empirica…
Network Analysis and the Sociology of Modernism
Literary historians have long been interested in sociological approaches to literature. The field of modernism, a major aesthetic movement that flourished between 1915-40 primarily in the United States, England, and Europe, but the rest of the world as well, has been seen as a particularly compelling site to explore the sociological underpinnings of art. It is in this movement that many of our ideas of the “autonomy of art” and the “genius” of th…
Performing the Village Square in Interwar Japan
Histories of public space generally assume a strong correlation between the health of a nation's civil society and the vibrancy of its public sites, in so much as the latter provide an observable venue for free assembly and popular protest. This essay, while not opposing such a view, offers a corrective to the kind of history it encourages, wherein public space appears politically relevant only at its most visible moments. Framing the analysis is…
Literary Pattern Recognition
Network Analysis and the Sociology of Modernism
Literary historians have long been interested in sociological approaches to literature. The field of modernism, a major aesthetic movement that flourished between 1915-40 primarily in the United States, England, and Europe, but the rest of the world as well, has been seen as a particularly compelling site to explore the sociological underpinnings of art. It is in this movement that many of our ideas of the “autonomy of art” and the “genius” of th…
Learning to Live with Machine Translation
Rapid advancements in technologies of text and image generation have increasingly put the perceived autonomy of human creativity under threat. Even before ChatGPT and other large-language models sent such anxieties into overdrive, literary critics were arguing for a hermeneutics of automatic writing and revisiting long-held assumptions about artistic originality. Few, however, gave much thought to these model's quirky cousins-a family branch that…
Performing the Village Square in Interwar Japan
Histories of public space generally assume a strong correlation between the health of a nation's civil society and the vibrancy of its public sites, in so much as the latter provide an observable venue for free assembly and popular protest. This essay, while not opposing such a view, offers a corrective to the kind of history it encourages, wherein public space appears politically relevant only at its most visible moments. Framing the analysis is…
Network Science and Literary History
This paper introduces a method for applying network analysis to the sociological study of literary history. Focusing on “little magazines” and poetry journals in the U.S., Japan, and China, the authors utilize bibliographic records to construct weighted, bipartite graphs of poets and journals linked by publication. Through visual and quantitative analysis of the resulting networks, the authors aim to augment traditional hermeneutics with empirica…
Network Analysis and the Sociology of Modernism
Literary historians have long been interested in sociological approaches to literature. The field of modernism, a major aesthetic movement that flourished between 1915-40 primarily in the United States, England, and Europe, but the rest of the world as well, has been seen as a particularly compelling site to explore the sociological underpinnings of art. It is in this movement that many of our ideas of the “autonomy of art” and the “genius” of th…
Fog and Steel
This essay explores the application of social-scientific and computational methods to the study of translation and textual circulation in interwar Japan. Leveraging extensive bibliographic data on modernist poetry journals, as well as techniques such as network analysis and visualization, the essay presents a new model of translation as an affiliative mechanism mediating between diverse communities of writers and the larger literary field in whic…
The Undiscovered Country
Reviewed by: The Undiscovered Country: Text, Translation, and Modernity in the Work of Yanagita Kunio by Melek Ortabasi Hoyt Long (bio) The Undiscovered Country: Text, Translation, and Modernity in the Work of Yanagita Kunio. By Melek Ortabasi. Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass., 2014. xiv, 329 pages. $49.95. The humanities are again in a state of crisis. As in previous times, the crisis is refracted through anxieties about the way(…
Literary Pattern Recognition
(Il)legibility and Handwriting in Meiji Letters
This article explores the intermedial as a conceptual framework for Asia media critique and history. Although not a new concept in media studies, it proves useful for troubling the divide often imposed on old and new media forms—including technologies of communication—and for theorizing their movement in and across sociocultural contexts. The article both proposes and carries out an intermedial critique of handwriting in early twentieth-century J…
Self-Repetition and East Asian Literary Modernity, 1900-1930
Literary readings provoke strong feelings, which feed intense critical de-bates. And while recorded literary readings have long been available for study, few scholars have applied to them the empirical methods that the digitalhumanities and interdisciplinary sound studies now offer
Race, Writing, and Computation
This article seeks to bridge two scholarly fields often seen as incommensurable:cultural analytics (also known as “computational criticism”) and critical racestudies. It does so by discovering generative points of contact between two sets of methods that are also typically viewed as antithetical: data science and critique.Cultural analytics is an emerging field wherein humanist scholars leverage the in-creasing availability of large digital corpo…
Chance Encounters
This essay brings probabilistic reasoning into concerted dialogue with book-historical and sociological approaches to world literature. Using extensive bibliographic data about literary translations into Japanese during the modern era, it develops a series of case studies at interrelated scales—the literary anthology, world library collections, and individual readers—to reason about the likelihood of certain authors or works being plucked from th…
Licentious Fictions
Reviewed by: Licentious Fictions: Ninjō and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel by Daniel Poch Hoyt Long (bio) Licentious Fictions: Ninjō and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel. By Daniel Poch. Columbia University Press, 2020. xii, 290 pages. $65.00, cloth; $64.99, E-book. "Novels are like morphine," says the narrator of Tsubouchi Shōyō's Shinmigaki: Imotose kagami (1885–86): "one must love them, but also fear them." They are loved as a wind…
Learning to Live with Machine Translation
Rapid advancements in technologies of text and image generation have increasingly put the perceived autonomy of human creativity under threat. Even before ChatGPT and other large-language models sent such anxieties into overdrive, literary critics were arguing for a hermeneutics of automatic writing and revisiting long-held assumptions about artistic originality. Few, however, gave much thought to these model's quirky cousins-a family branch that…
Covid, Crisis, and the Search for Story in the Platform Age
Wattpad is a popular online writing website in which individuals write, upload, and comment on original stories. In 2020, the platform had more than a hundred million registered users. In this article, we use a mixture of close and distant reading methods to study how lay authors wrote about the COVID-19 global pandemic during its first year. We examine some of the formal and generic norms these authors used to narrativize this event; how such no…
New Towers of Babel
The social AI author
This article examines generative AI models as sociocultural actors, focusing on how they reproduce and constrain notions of authorship and identity within the contemporary U.S. literary field. Through a simulation of 101 “AI authors” modeled on real-world counterparts, we analyze how language models articulate literary distinction across race, gender, and publishing contexts. Our findings show that generative outputs are dominated by a reductive …
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