Paul Vierthaler
Assistant Professor Of East Asian Studies at Princeton University
United States
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Top SchoolPaul Vierthaler is an accomplished scholar of late Imperial Chinese literature and print history who combines traditional philological expertise with advanced digital humanities methods. With a decade of academic experience and appointments at Princeton, William & Mary, Leiden, Harvard, and Boston College, he specializes in unofficial and quasi-historical narratives across novels, drama, and unofficial histories. His work integrates computational techniques—NLP, stylometry, social network analysis, and GIS—to uncover literary networks and transmission histories that are often invisible to close reading. He teaches and develops tools that make digital methods accessible to humanists, having designed courses like "Hacking the Humanities" and the Digital China Lab. Based in the United States with training from Yale and international study in Yunnan, he bridges East Asian literary scholarship and reproducible computational research. Colleagues value him for turning archival nuance into data-driven insights that reshape how late Imperial textuality is understood.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science; East Asian Languages and Cultures, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science; East Asian Languages and Cultures at University of KansasDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), East Asian Languages and Literatures, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale UniversityEast Asian Language and Literature; East Asian Studies focusing on China, East Asian Language and Literature; East Asian Studies focusing on China at Yunnan Normal University
English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (14)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vierth/chineselitenglish
Sep 2019 - Mar 2022
Lecture slides for Chinese Literature in English
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
englishchineselecture-slidesliterature
vierth/qianlongsworld
Feb 2024 - May 2024
Repository of game
Contributions:40 PRs, 82 pushes, 6 branches in 2 months
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