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Anna Preus is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Washington. She holds a PhD in English from Washington University in St. Louis, earned in 2021, and a BA in English from Carleton College, obtained in 2011. Her research interests include Digital Humanities, Modernism, Poetry, Poetics, Postcolonial Studies, and Textual Studies. Preus is particularly focused on the intersection of historical print cultures and digital resources, exploring how these mediums help narrate new kinds of literary histories. She is currently working on a book titled 'Publishing Empire: Colonial Authorship in British Literature, 1900-1940', which offers a pre-history of postcolonial publishing in England informed by historical data. Her collaborative projects include editing a digital edition of Hope Mirrlees's modernist long poem, Paris, and engagements in various initiatives such as the Cultural Analytics Research and Teaching Initiative and the Humanities Data Lab at UW. Preus's work has been published in prestigious journals such as ELH: English Literary History and Feminist Modernist Studies, and her research has received support from the ACLS, Mellon Foundation, and Mozilla Foundation.
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