Sadahisa Watanabe

Sadahisa received his BA and MA in French Language and Literature from the University of Tokyo. He was also an exchange student at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and interned at international organizations. For his current project, he focuses on the intersection between literature and information technology. He is also interested in how to incorporate computational text analysis (natural language processing, machine learning, and AI) into research in comparative literature and creative writing.

Peer-Reviewed Publication

“The Economy of Whiteness: Make-up and Female Sexuality in Transactional Modern Love in Uno Chiyo’s Early Works” Japanese Studies, forthcoming.

“Ambivalent Modernity and Exoticism: Japanese Doll-Like Women in Pierre Loti’s Madame Chrysanthème and Tanizaki Jun'ichirō’s Tade kū mushi.” Japanese Language and Literature 56, no. 2 (October, 2022): 299–328. http://jll.pitt.edu/ojs/JLL/article/view/194

Conference Presentations

2023 “The Sentiment Analysis of Dan Brown’s Novels: How the Plotlines Changed After The Da Vinci Code,” St. Louis Digital Humanities Showcase, St. Louis, Missouri