Alan Liu Prof Eng U of California Commons username: @ayliu ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2921-3037 liu.english.ucsb.edu Following 43 members View ProfileActivitySites 11Following 43Followers 74Groups 10ForumsDocs 0 Academic InterestsAdvocacyDigital humanitiesOmanRomanticism Commons GroupsHCDigital HumanistsMLA#TransformDHComputer Studies in Language and LiteratureDigital HumanitiesLLC English RomanticPostcolonial Digital HumanitiesTC Digital HumanitiesTM Literary and Cultural TheoryTM Literary CriticismHASTACJobs and Opportunities Recent Commons Activity joined the group Digital Humanists started the topic CFPs: MLA Committee on Inform… in the discussion TC Digital Humanities started the topic Calls for two MLA 2024 sessio… in the discussion Jobs and Opportunities joined the group Jobs and Opportunities Commons SitesHCCritical Infrastructure Studies AboutAlan Liu is Distinguished Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has published books on Wordsworth: The Sense of History (1989); The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information (2004); Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database (2008), and Friending the Past: The Sense of History in the Digital Age (2018). Recent essays include “Data Science and the Post Liberal Arts University” (forthcoming), “Toward a Diversity Stack: Digital Humanities and Diversity as Technical Problem”; “Is Digital Humanities a Field?—An Answer from the Point of View of Language”; “N + 1: A Plea for Cross-Domain Data in the Digital Humanities”; “The Meaning of the Digital Humanities.”. Liu started the Voice of the Shuttle website for humanities research in 1994. He is founder and co-leader of the 4Humanities.org advocacy initiative, and Principal Investigator of the Mellon Foundation funded “WhatEvery1Says” project on public discourse about the humanities. Mose recently, he has become co-founder and co-president of the Center for Humanities Communication (CHC). _________________ Email: ayliu@english.ucsb.edu Bluesky: @alanyliu.bsky.social Mastodon: @alanyliu@fosstodon.org Pre-“X” Twitter archive (searchable): https://alanyliu.org/twitterarchive/ Google Scholar citations ORCID citations Education1980 Ph.D. English Literature, Stanford University. 1979 M.A. Creative Writing, Stanford University 1975 B.A. summa cum laude, Yale University Blog Posts Call for Papers: MLA Committee on Information Technology’s two panels at MLA 2025 (Humanities, Arts, and Media, 2024-02-14) CVView file KCWorksOtherDrafts for Against the Cultural Singularity (2016)White paperRoSE Research-oriented Social Environment: Bibliographical Knowledge as Social Knowledge (2012) ProjectsCurrent Project: Center for Humanities Communication.
