American Comparative Literature Association — 1992-2026 — 216 sessions, 335 presentations
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This dashboard provides an overview of Japan-related sessions at the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference, spanning 1992-2026. It summarizes key statistics and links to six detailed interactive visualizations exploring topics, institutions, presenter careers, co-paneling networks, panel themes, and geographic distribution.
Conference data was assembled from multiple harvesting pipelines specific to each conference. Cross-referencing against the broader Japanese Literary Studies database identifies 93.1% of presenters as known scholars in the field.
Topics are extracted from paper and session titles using four keyword dictionaries: literary figures (~45 authors with romanization variants), historical periods (7 eras), genres (9 categories), and themes (15 categories). Matching uses word-boundary regex with Unicode diacritics flattening.