Dr Jessie Labov

Is a Resident Fellow at the Center for Media, Data, and Society and Project Coordinator for the Digital Humanities (https://www.ceu.edu/dhi) and Text Analysis Across Disciplines Initiatives (https://www.ceu.edu/project/text-analysis-across-disciplines). Before relocating to CEU, she was Associate Professor in the Slavic Department at Ohio State University. Publications include a co-edited volume with Friederike Kind-Kovács, Samizdat, Tamizdat and Beyond: Transnational Media During and After Socialism (Berghahn 2013), and a monograph entitled Transatlantic Central Europe: Contesting Geography and Redefining Culture Beyond the Nation (forthcoming, CEU Press 2018). In addition to her work in Slavic Studies, Jessie has also directed a variety of digital humanities projects concerned with issues of canon formation, text mining, and visualizing the receptive pathways of literary journals ("Reading Kultura from a Distance" http://eurasia.cga.harvard.edu/exhibits/show/distant-kultura).