Japanese American Print Culture (1880-1940)
Andrew Leong, Professor
English
Applications for Fall 2025 are closed for this project.
Japanese and English-language literary columns in Japanese American newspapers played crucial roles in pre-World War II immigrant society, offering opportunities for readers and contributors to reflect upon their lives in the United States. This project includes retrieving, categorizing, and studying literary texts through resources such as the Hoji Shinbun Database. This work may also include study and practice of TEI-EAJ (the Japanese implementation of the Text Encoding Initiative's guidelines for electronic text encoding and interchange).
Role: Undergraduate researchers will learn how to refine searches in digitized databases of early Japanese American literature. Researchers will learn how to create and enter metadata for literary texts.
Depending on the researchers' levels of linguistic fluency and/or programming skills, more complex tasks and possible learning outcomes might include creation of a searchable author/title/genre database of early Japanese American literary texts or digital encoding of selected significant texts.
Qualifications: - Class level above sophomore/second-year (desirable but not essential).
- Japanese-language proficiency (desirable but not essential).
- Familiarity with XML or LaTeX (desirable but not essential).
- Background in natural language processing in Python/R (desirable but not essential).
Hours: to be negotiated
Arts & Humanities