Anatoly Detwyler
MA Program Director and Lecturer in Discipline
Teaching Hours: Tu Th 4:10-5:25 pm
Office Hours: W 10:00-12:00 am, 500 Kent Hall
Office: 507 Kent Hall
Email: ad2515@columbia.edu
Educational Background
BA: University of Minnesota – Twin Cities (’05)
PhD: Columbia University (’15)
Classes
East Asia UN1359: Intro to East Asian Civilizations: China
Research Interests
Anatoly Detwyler’s book project, The Aesthetics of Information in Modern Chinese Literary Culture, rethinks the development of 20th century Chinese literature as part of a broader communications revolution. He shows how this era’s writers sought to make sense of—and creatively employ—new media technologies ranging from the statistical table and propaganda to telephony and telegraphy. The resultant “aesthetics of information” transformed the formal and political dimensions of modern Chinese literature, ultimately signaling the arrival of China’s nascent information age. His other research interests include comparative new media studies, Chinese film, history of science and technology, gender studies, and the digital humanities, particularly text mining and social network analysis.
Selected Publications
“Piercing the Thunderous Roar of Numbers: Speculation and Information Management in Mao Dun’s 1930s Market Literature,” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (R&R, March 2017)
Macrotrends [观其大较], an ongoing column which co-authored and co-edited with Wentao Jiang (Zhejiang University), published in Shandong Journal of Social Sciences [山东社会科学].
“Contribution to the Annotated Bibliography of the Lu Xun Foreign Book Collection” [鲁迅外文藏书提要（一则）], Lu Xun Studies Monthly, no. 3 (2012)
