publications

2026

1. CulturalAI

   LLMs as Cultural Agents: Author, Teacher, Reader

   Hoyt Long and Richard Jean So

   Modern Fiction Studies, forthcoming, 2026

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2. CulturalAI

   Why Slop Matters

   Cody Kommers, Eamon Duede, Julia Gordon, and 6 more authors

   ACM AI Letters, 2026

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3. CulturalAI

   Computational Hermeneutics: Evaluating Generative AI as a Cultural Technology

   Cody Kommers and et al

   Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2026

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4. CulturalAI

   Spoiler Alert: Narrative Forecasting as a Metric for Tension in LLM Storytelling

   Peiqi Sui, Yutong Zhu, Tianyi Cheng, and 4 more authors

   COLM, 2026

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5. CulturalAI

   Critical Confabulation: Can LLM’s Hallucinate for Social Good?

   Peiqi Sui, Eamon Duede, Hoyt Long, and 1 more author

   ICLR, 2026

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   @article{cui2025criticalconfab,
     author = {Sui, Peiqi and Duede, Eamon and Long, Hoyt and So, Richard Jean},
     title = {Critical Confabulation: Can LLM's Hallucinate for Social Good?},
     journal = {ICLR},
     year = {2026},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.07722},
   }

6. CulturalAI

   What Does AI Do for Cultural Interpretation? A Randomized Experiment on Close Reading Poems with Exposure to AI Interpretation

   Jiayin Zhi, Hoyt Long, Richard Jean So, and 1 more author

   Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Barcelona, Spain, 2026

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2025

1. CulturalAnalytics

   Split Screens: Aesthetic Preference and Political Polarization in American Television

   Tess McNulty, Hoyt Long, and Richard Jean So

   Under Review, 2025

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   @article{mcnulty2025splitscreens,
     author = {McNulty, Tess and Long, Hoyt and So, Richard Jean},
     title = {Split Screens: Aesthetic Preference and Political Polarization in American Television},
     journal = {Under Review},
     year = {2025},
   }

2. CulturalAI

   The Social AI Author: Modeling Creativity and Distinction in Simulated Cultural Fields

   Teddy Roland, Richard Jean So, and Hoyt Long

   AI & Society, 2025

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   @article{roland2025socialaiauthor,
     title = {The Social AI Author: Modeling Creativity and Distinction in Simulated Cultural Fields},
     author = {Roland, Teddy and So, Richard Jean and Long, Hoyt},
     year = {2025},
     journal = {AI & Society},
   }

3. CulturalAI

   Generative AI and the Technical Reproduction of Cultural Inequality

   Hoyt Long and Richard Jean So

   Under review, 2025

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   @article{longso2025inequality,
     title = {Generative AI and the Technical Reproduction of Cultural Inequality},
     author = {Long, Hoyt and So, Richard Jean},
     year = {2025},
     journal = {Under review},
   }

2024

1. CulturalAI

   New Towers of Babel: Faith and Doubt in the Future of Translation

   Hoyt Long

   Poetics Today, Jun 2024

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   @article{long_new_2024,
     title = {New Towers of Babel: Faith and Doubt in the Future of Translation},
     volume = {45},
     doi = {10.1215/03335372-11092951},
     number = {2},
     journal = {Poetics Today},
     author = {Long, Hoyt},
     month = jun,
     year = {2024},
     pages = {309--316},
   }

2023

1. CulturalAnalytics

   #COVID, Crisis, and the Search for Story in the Platform Age

   Hoyt Long, Richard Jean So, and Kaitlyn Todd

   Critical Inquiry, Jun 2023

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   @article{longso2023Covid,
     author = {Long, Hoyt and So, Richard Jean and Todd, Kaitlyn},
     title = {\#COVID, Crisis, and the Search for Story in the Platform Age},
     journal = {Critical Inquiry},
     volume = {49},
     number = {4},
     pages = {530--556},
     year = {2023},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1086/725059},
   }

2. CulturalAnalytics

   We Want Our Catastrophe TV

   Hoyt Long and Aarthi Vadde

   Public Books, Nov 2023

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   @article{long_we_2023,
     title = {We Want Our Catastrophe TV},
     journal = {Public Books},
     author = {Long, Hoyt and Vadde, Aarthi},
     month = nov,
     year = {2023},
   }

2022

1. CulturalAI

   Learning to Live with Machine Translation

   Hoyt Long

   New Literary History, Nov 2022

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   @article{long_learning_2022,
     title = {Learning to Live with Machine Translation},
     volume = {54},
     number = {1},
     journal = {New Literary History},
     author = {Long, Hoyt},
     year = {2022},
     pages = {721--753},
   }

2021

1. CulturalAnalytics

   

   The Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age

   Hoyt Long

   Nov 2021

   Columbia University Press

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   @book{long_values_2021,
     title = {The Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age},
     note = {Columbia University Press},
     publisher = {Columbia University Press},
     author = {Long, Hoyt},
     year = {2021},
   }

2. CulturalAnalytics

   Chance Encounters: World Literature Between the Unexpected and the Probable

   Hoyt Long

   Journal of Cultural Analytics, Jul 2021

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   @article{long_chance_2021,
     title = {Chance Encounters: World Literature Between the Unexpected and the Probable},
     volume = {6},
     doi = {10.22148/001c.25525},
     number = {3},
     journal = {Journal of Cultural Analytics},
     author = {Long, Hoyt},
     month = jul,
     year = {2021},
   }

3. CulturalAnalytics

   Can Algorithmic Bias Teach Us about Race?

   Hoyt Long

   Public Books, Jun 2021

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   @article{long_can_2021,
     title = {Can Algorithmic Bias Teach Us about Race?},
     journal = {Public Books},
     author = {Long, Hoyt},
     month = jun,
     year = {2021},
   }

2019

1. CulturalAnalytics

   Race, Writing, and Computation: Racial Difference and the US Novel, 1880-2000

   Richard Jean So, Hoyt Long, and Yuancheng Zhu

   Journal of Cultural Analytics, Jan 2019

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   @article{so_race_2019,
     title = {Race, Writing, and Computation: Racial Difference and the US Novel, 1880-2000},
     volume = {3},
     doi = {10.22148/16.031},
     number = {2},
     journal = {Journal of Cultural Analytics},
     author = {So, Richard Jean and Long, Hoyt and Zhu, Yuancheng},
     month = jan,
     year = {2019},
   }

2018

1. CulturalAnalytics

   Self-Repetition and East Asian Literary Modernity, 1900-1930

   Hoyt Long, Anatoly Detwyler, and Yuancheng Zhu

   Journal of Cultural Analytics, May 2018

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   @article{long_self-repetition_2018,
     title = {Self-Repetition and East Asian Literary Modernity, 1900-1930},
     volume = {2},
     doi = {10.22148/16.022},
     number = {2},
     journal = {Journal of Cultural Analytics},
     author = {Long, Hoyt and Detwyler, Anatoly and Zhu, Yuancheng},
     month = may,
     year = {2018},
   }

2017

1. CulturalAnalytics

   ‘Digital’ Is Not the Opposite of ‘Humanities’

   Sarah E. Bond, Hoyt Long, and Ted Underwood

   The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov 2017

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   @article{bond_digital_2017,
     title = {‘Digital’ Is Not the Opposite of ‘Humanities’},
     journal = {The Chronicle of Higher Education},
     author = {Bond, Sarah E. and Long, Hoyt and Underwood, Ted},
     month = nov,
     year = {2017},
   }

2. CulturalAnalytics

   The Sociology of Forms

   Hoyt Long

   PMLA, Oct 2017

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   @article{long_sociology_2017,
     title = {The Sociology of Forms},
     volume = {132},
     doi = {10.1632/pmla.2017.132.5.1206},
     number = {5},
     journal = {PMLA},
     author = {Long, Hoyt},
     month = oct,
     year = {2017},
     pages = {1206--1213},
   }

3. MediaHistory

   (Il)legibility and Handwriting in Meiji Letters: A Media History

   Hoyt J. Long

   positions: asia critique, May 2017

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   @article{long_illegibility_2017,
     title = {(Il)legibility and Handwriting in Meiji Letters: A Media History},
     volume = {25},
     doi = {10.1215/10679847-3852225},
     number = {2},
     journal = {positions: asia critique},
     author = {Long, Hoyt J.},
     month = may,
     year = {2017},
     pages = {255--292},
   }

2016

1. CulturalAnalytics

   Turbulent Flow: A Computational Model of World Literature

   Hoyt Long and Richard Jean So

   Modern Language Quarterly, Sep 2016

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   @article{long_turbulent_2016,
     title = {Turbulent Flow: A Computational Model of World Literature},
     volume = {77},
     doi = {10.1215/00267929-3570656},
     number = {3},
     journal = {Modern Language Quarterly},
     author = {Long, Hoyt and So, Richard Jean},
     month = sep,
     year = {2016},
     pages = {345--367},
   }

2. CulturalAnalytics

   Literary Pattern Recognition: Modernism between Close Reading and Machine Learning

   Hoyt Long and Richard Jean So

   Critical Inquiry, Jan 2016

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   @article{long_literary_2016,
     title = {Literary Pattern Recognition: Modernism between Close Reading and Machine Learning},
     doi = {10.1086/684353},
     journal = {Critical Inquiry},
     author = {Long, Hoyt and So, Richard Jean},
     month = jan,
     year = {2016},
   }

2015

1. JapaneseLiterature

   Fog and Steel: Mapping Communities of Literary Translation in an Information Age

   Hoyt Long

   The Journal of Japanese Studies, Jul 2015

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   @article{long_fog_2015,
     title = {Fog and Steel: Mapping Communities of Literary Translation in an Information Age},
     volume = {41},
     doi = {10.1353/jjs.2015.0062},
     number = {2},
     journal = {The Journal of Japanese Studies},
     author = {Long, Hoyt},
     month = jul,
     year = {2015},
     pages = {281--316},
   }

2013

1. CulturalAnalytics

   Network Analysis and the Sociology of Modernism

   Richard Jean So and Hoyt Long

   boundary 2, May 2013

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   @article{so_network_2013,
     title = {Network Analysis and the Sociology of Modernism},
     volume = {40},
     doi = {10.1215/01903659-2151839},
     number = {2},
     journal = {boundary 2},
     author = {So, Richard Jean and Long, Hoyt},
     month = may,
     year = {2013},
     pages = {147--182},
   }

2011

1. JapaneseLiterature

   

   On Uneven Ground: Miyazawa Kenji and the Making of Place in Modern Japan

   Hoyt Long

   May 2011

   Stanford University Press

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   @book{long_uneven_2011,
     title = {On Uneven Ground: Miyazawa Kenji and the Making of Place in Modern Japan},
     note = {Stanford University Press},
     publisher = {Stanford University Press},
     author = {Long, Hoyt},
     year = {2011},
   }

2. JapaneseLiterature

   Performing the Village Square in Interwar Japan: Toward a Hidden History of Public Space

   Hoyt Long

   The Journal of Asian Studies, May 2011

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   @article{long_performing_2011,
     title = {Performing the Village Square in Interwar Japan: Toward a Hidden History of Public Space},
     volume = {70},
     number = {3},
     journal = {The Journal of Asian Studies},
     author = {Long, Hoyt},
     year = {2011},
     pages = {754--777},
   }