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Digital Humanities and Queer Studies

  • Journal of Popular Narrative
  • 2025, 31(2), pp.497~535
  • Publisher : The Association of Popular Narrative
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Interdisciplinary Research
  • Received : April 4, 2025
  • Accepted : June 19, 2025
  • Published : June 30, 2025

Jeon Seong Kyu 1

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ABSTRACT

This paper examines the sense of distance between queerness and digital humanities, and explores the potential for their intersection. The encounter between queer studies and digital humanities is valuable in that it seeks to combine uncomfortable and confusing elements—those deemed unquantifiable, invisible, or implicit, and therefore prone to being discarded or overlooked—with quantitative methodologies. Queer DH (Digital Humanities) research has the potential to expose the limitations of conventional systems that prioritize quantitative and objective evaluation of data. By intentionally producing data that is incomplete or situated on the margins—eschewing accuracy and standardization—queer DH may create forms of "fugitive" data that can rupture oppressive environments and regimes of control. As Kent K. Chang argues, queer DH needs to move toward cultural analytics. Rather than objectifying queerness, it is essential to develop methodologies that historicize and genealogize queer lives by uncovering the structural patterns embedded in repositories of memory. This requires not a data-centered approach, but one that centers queer culture and identifies computable, effective variables within it. Such an approach calls for academic inquiry and theoretical resources rooted in queer studies. A shift in how we perceive data is also necessary: in cultural analytics, data is neither fixed nor finalized, but must remain subject to continual revision as individuals and societies evolve. Exploring the spatiotemporal dimensions of queer literature is an inquiry into the bodily movements possible within particular societies and present conditions. The everyday spatiotemporality embedded in queer literature differs from the affective dynamics of traditional social resistance. Queer subjects, while embodying the constraints of their present, explore the possibilities of everyday motion. The act of "sensing and navigating" (nun-chi) inscribed in queer literature traces the trajectory of queer life itself, and as it changes over time and across spatial contexts, it becomes a critical resource for tracking the fluidity of queer identity. This study analyzes a range of queer novels produced from the late 2010s to the early 2020s, tracing the spatial transitions that occur as queer youth mature into queer adults. When queer bodies are situated within space, body and space co-transform; and when this dynamic is structured into data, the everydayness imagined by queer lives can be quantitatively explored.

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