Anna Preus is an assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Washington, where she studies and teaches early 20th-century British and Anglophone literature and data science in the humanities. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in ELH, Feminist Modernist Studies, and Modernism/modernity Print Plus. At UW she leads the Humanities Data Lab, serves as core faculty in the Textual Studies program, and is a Data Science Fellow with the eScience Institute.

As a Digital Humanities Summer fellow, Preus will work on her project, "Publishing Empire: Colonial Authorship and British Literary Production, 1900-1940." Publishing Empire traces the increasing number of texts by authors from colonized nations appearing in print in England across the early 20th century. Each chapter focuses on the careers of individual—or small groups of—authors and publishers, and she narrates their trajectories through biographies, letters, printed books, and digital records. She contextualizes and substantiates these narratives through analysis of data drawn from digital library records and historical publishing catalogs.