While most American fiction focuses on national concerns, its high-end, prize-winning fiction looks around the globe. Why the divide?
Matthew Wilkens
Matthew Wilkens is associate professor of information science at Cornell University, where he works on data-intensive approaches to literary studies. He is the author of Revolution: The Event in Postwar Fiction (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), a cofounder of the Journal of Cultural Analytics, and the director of the Textual Geographies project. 