Richard Jean So

Richard Jean So is associate professor of English and data science at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He teaches and researches computational and data-driven approaches to literature, culture and digital media. His most recent book is Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction (Columbia UP, 2020). More recently, he has turned to contemporary mass writing and online platforms. He has an article forthcoming at Critical Inquiry with Hoyt Long, ‘Stories on Demand: #COVID and Writing Social Crisis in the Platform Age,’ and his current book project is Fast Culture, Slow Justice: Race, Writing and Protest in the Digital Age, a study of recent social justice movements like #BLM and online writing platforms.