dan sinykinAffiliated Faculty | EnglishAssistant Professor

Dan Sinykin is an assistant professor of English with a courtesy appointment in Quantitative Theory and Methods. He is the author of American Literature and the Long Downturn: Neoliberal Apocalypse (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed Book Publishing and American Literature (Columbia University Press, 2023). He is also the co-founder and co-editor of the Post45 Data Collective, which peer reviews and houses post-1945 literary and cultural data on an open-access website. It addresses three problems: the lack of shared best practices for the creation of humanities data; the lack of institutional recognition for scholarly data work in the humanities; and the atomization of data that could be powerful when made public and put in conversation with related datasets.

QTM 340: Practical Approaches to Data Science with Text