Neel Gupta
Bio
I am a Ph.D student at the University of Washington working with Professor Melanie Walsh on topics in cultural analytics. I research contemporary culture with both humanistic and computational methods. I think a lot about the relationship between economics and aesthetic production. I also think about the multiplicity of genres, structures and mediums that characterize modern storytelling. Before starting my Ph.D, I worked as a data scientist in marketing analytics, and I studied English Literature, Mathematics, and Computer Science as part of the Honors Program at Swarthmore College. Feel free to reach out over email if you'd like to get in touch.
Papers
- Gupta, N., Christensen, D., & Walsh, M. (2025). Seattle Public Library’s Open Checkout Data: What Can It Tell Us About Readers and Book Popularity More Broadly? Journal of Open Humanities Data, 11, 46. DOI: 10.5334/johd.332
- Gupta, N., Maor, D., Harris, K., Backstrom, E., Dong, H., & Walsh, M. (2025). The Canon in Circulation: Tracking the Reception of Norton Anthology Authors in Library Checkout Data. Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, Vol. 3. DOI: 10.63744/P6qPH135jhY2 Link