The governance of literary taste
I am also interested in the institutions that support the production, circulation, and celebration of literary works across political and cultural frontiers. I have completed work on the growth of magazine publishing in the early United States and the emergence of the Nobel Prize in Literature as a global institution. I also co-organized an international symposium of the Nobel that led to no fewer than three edited collections in the journals Poetics (here) and the Journal of World Literature (here and here).
Papers:
Hongyu Chen and Jacob Habinek. Historical Decisions in Texts: The Literary Tastes of the Nobel Committee for the Prize in Literature. Working paper.
Jacob Habinek. 2023. “How the Nobel Became a World Prize: Scalar Mediation in the Global Literary Field.” Poetics: A Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts 101(1): 101822.
Heather A. Haveman, Jacob Habinek, and Leo A. Goodman. 2012. “How Entrepreneurship Evolves: The Founders of New Magazines in America, 1741–1860.” Administrative Science Quarterly 57: 585-624.
Papers:
Hongyu Chen and Jacob Habinek. Historical Decisions in Texts: The Literary Tastes of the Nobel Committee for the Prize in Literature. Working paper.
Jacob Habinek. 2023. “How the Nobel Became a World Prize: Scalar Mediation in the Global Literary Field.” Poetics: A Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts 101(1): 101822.
Heather A. Haveman, Jacob Habinek, and Leo A. Goodman. 2012. “How Entrepreneurship Evolves: The Founders of New Magazines in America, 1741–1860.” Administrative Science Quarterly 57: 585-624.