Andrew Piper is William Dawson Scholar and associate professor of German and European literature at McGill University. He is the director of .txtLAB, a digital humanities laboratory at McGill and author most recently of Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times (Chicago).

Richard Jean So is an assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago, where he co-directs the Chicago Text Lab.  He specializes in critical and computational approaches to the study of modern US culture.  His book, Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network, is forthcoming from Columbia UP.

Nasr Maswood is the research assistant for Culture After Computation.  He is a junior at the University of Chicago, majoring in Computer Science.  He helps perform a number of essential tasks for the project, including web scraping, data parsing and analysis.  He has extensive expertise in all of these areas, as well as other CS-related work.

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