About me

Daniel Carrillo-Jara

I received my BA in Literature from Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and my Ph.D. in Latin-American Literature with a Digital Humanities certificate from Purdue University. My first monograph titled, Letra, número, dato. Capital y acumulación en el canon de la literatura peruana, investigates the literary canon formation in Peru through the publications on the history of literature, anthologies of poetry, and Wikipedia, from the beginning of the 20th century to the current decade.

As a specialist in Cultural Analytics, I have a strong interest in interdisciplinary data science, particularly in the areas of data visualization and textual analysis. I have used Digital Humanities methods to achieve the recovery and preservation of Latin American literary data and resources. My research aim is twofold: reclaiming national literary heritage and closing the “digital divide” between countries of Global North and Latin America.

I have created the From Disasters to Celebrations digital archive. This archive has the goal of preserving Peruvian novels published between 1885 and 1921. The project intends to facilitate the digital repatriation of Peruvian cultural heritage and allow open access to Latin American scholars. This project has received recognition from the Ministry of Culture of the Peruvian government in 2020, 2021, and 2024.

Following one of my monograph conclusions (Andean literatures make cultural contributions of the Amazon invisible), I am currently designing a Public Humanities project that seeks to collaborate with the communities of writers and critics of the Peruvian Amazon to build a digital map of contemporary indigenous literature.