Digital and Data Humanities Summer Fellowships Cohort Archive

When Postwar American Fiction Went Viral: Protest, Profit, and Popular Readers in the 21st Century

In my book, When Postwar American Fiction Went Viral: Protest, Profit, and Popular Readers in the 21st Century, I trace how postwar literary texts by writers like James Baldwin, Kurt Vonnegut, Sandra Cisneros, and Chris Kraus have been recirculated and reimagined by various internet communities and political movements, such as Black Lives Matter. By drawing on both humanistic and computational methods, both interviews and data, I narrate a new chapter in the history of reading spurred by the internet and social media.