Paul Vierthaler is currently a University Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of the Digital Humanities at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Formerly, he was the Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at Boston College (US) and an An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fairbank Centre for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. He holds a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures from Yale University, an MA in Chinese studies from Yale, and a BA from the University of Kansas.

In this talk, Paul Vierthaler will outline some of his current research in which he studies the movement of historical information between histories and fictional works written in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties in China. By studying intertextuality and stylistic relationships at the corpus level, he can track how information moves among documents across generic borders while also characterizing the linguistic variations among texts of different types. This talk will mainly focus on the methodological approach Paul uses.