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Alan Liu is Distinguished Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has published books on Wordsworth: The Sense of History (Stanford U. Press, 1989); The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information (U. Chicago Press, 2004); Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database (U. Chicago Press, 2008), and Friending the Past: The Sense of History in the Digital Age (U. Chicago Press, 2018). Recent essays include “Toward a Diversity Stack: Digital Humanities and Diversity as Technical Problem”; "Is Digital Humanities a Field?—An Answer from the Point of View of Language"; "N + 1: A Plea for Cross-Domain Data in the Digital Humanities"; and "The Meaning of the Digital Humanities." Liu started the Voice of the Shuttle website for humanities research in 1994. He is founder and co-leader of the 4Humanities.org advocacy initiative, and Principal Investigator of the Mellon Foundation funded "WhatEvery1Says" project on public discourse about the humanities. He is also a co-leader of the Critical Infrastructure Studies initiative (CIstudies.org). At UCSB, he has in various years been Chair, Graduate Chair, and Undergraduate Chair of the English Department. He is also an affiliated faculty member of the UCSB Center for Information Technology & Society and the UCSB Media Arts & Technology Program; and a member of the Working Group of the UCSB Data Science Initiative. (See his home page: https://liu.english.ucsb.edu/)

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Employment (2)

University of California, Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara, CA, US

1988 to present | Associate Professor, Professor, Distinguished Professor (English)
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Yale University: New Haven, CT, US

1979 to 1987 | Assistant and Associate Professor (English)
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Education and qualifications (2)

Stanford University: Stanford, CA, US

1975-09 to 1980-01 | Ph.D. (English)
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Yale University: New Haven, CT, US

1971-09 to 1975-05 | B.A. (English)
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Alan Liu