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Please read this paper by Matt Wilkens in advance! "Is American fiction too provincial?"
Matthew Wilkens is Associate Professor of Information Science at Cornell University (USA). His work uses quantitative and computational methods to study large-scale developments in literary and cultural history. He is the director of the Textual Geographies project, a founding editorial board member of the Journal of Cultural Analytics, and the author of Revolution: The Event in Postwar Fiction.