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The Stanford Literary Lab is a research collective that applies computational criticism to the study of literature. It is directed by Mark Algee-Hewitt and Associate Directors Nichole Nomura and Matt Warner. https://litlab.stanford.edu/about .. more

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Stanford Literary Lab @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social · 10d

We're thrilled to see our publication out this week! 🥳
#JCLS is such a great place to publish our project results.
Many thanks to the editorial team for the quick publication process and for the great discussion at #CCLS2025!

--> #Code&Data can be found here:
github.com/literarylab/...

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 17d

How do literary communities actually form?
@maria-lev.bsky.social analyzes the networks of collaboration and aesthetic affinity that are documented through cultural events — e.g. readings, book launches, festivals. These real-world networks often remain invisible in text-based literary history.

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DraCor @dracor.org · Jun 6

Registration is now open for the #DraCor Summit in Berlin, 1–5 September 2025!

summit.dracor.org

Discover a varied programme feat. workshops, lectures, discussion rounds, and hackathon sessions.

@temporal-communities.de @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @unipotsdam.bsky.social @dhpotsdam.bsky.social

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · Jul 19

(I worked at the Lab at the time.) My extremely tolerant dad bought the books & shipped them to CA at my direction. More than 5 years later … voila!

All I ask in return: if the physical copies still exist, please put a bookplate in each one identifying it as the generous gift of Hannah Walser 😂 3/3

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · Jul 19

My parents used to live in a small town with 1 used bookstore. They had dozens of books in the “Men Made in America” romance series. The gimmick is simple yet profound: 1 man (1 book) per state. Probably encouraged by @jdporter.bsky.social, I thought this would make a fun corpus for a DH project 2/3

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · Jul 19

I’m always excited to see what @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social is up to, but this project brings me a special kind of joy, because …

This is my corpus! I donated it to the Lab! 1/3

A collection of book covers from the “Men Made in America” romance novel series—one man for each state!

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Svenja Guhr @guhrs.bsky.social · Jul 18

Today’s #highlight for me on the last day of #DH2025? @lucagiovannini.bsky.social presenting his "Modest Proposal for Operationalizing Dramatic Texts". He proposes drama vectorization not to simplify plays, but rather to continue formalist morphological thinking using computational tools. 🎭📊

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · Jul 18

In his "Modest Proposal for Operationalizing Dramatic Texts", @lucagiovannini.bsky.social presents 3 exhibits, including his recently completed PhD thesis on the "Formal Development of Early Modern European Drama". Congratulations! 🎓 #PhDone #CLS #Drama #Operationalization

Luca presenting his PhD thesis as one of the three exhibits to Operationalizing Dramatic Texts

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · Jul 18

What are the key components of a #play? 🎭
#DH2025: @lucagiovannini.bsky.social takes us on a tour through centuries of thinking from #Aristotle’s #Poetics, through Russian formalism, to modern literary theory and unpacks the question offering a fresh perspective.
#drama #operationalization #CLS

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Stanford Literary Lab @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social · Jul 18

#DH2025: Today (07/18) is already the last conference day. Nichole Nomura, Mallen Clifton, Unjoo Oh, Jessica Monaco, Matt Warner & Madison Zickgraf Burke dive into course descriptions from California’s public universities. #HigherEd #CourseDescriptions

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Anastasia Glawion @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social · Jul 17

Love, love, love the romance novel project by @guhrs.bsky.social, Huijun Mao, Fengyi Lin, Alexander J. Sherman & Mark Algee-Hewitt. Look at the corpus 🤩
#dh2025

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Anastasia Glawion @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social · Jul 17

Very excited about this! Next session is "Spatial Analysis for Literature, Fiction and Travel Writing"
#dh2025

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · Jul 17

#DH2025: Another #alignment project in #CLS. @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social and Dhara Lechner of @dhssfau.bsky.social present their work on "Tracing #Transformation: editorial shifts in the Grimm brothers’ tales".
#FairyTales #German-language #fiction

Anastasia and Dhara presenting at #DH2025

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Svenja Guhr @guhrs.bsky.social · Jul 17

Super excited to share our research with you! Here's the link to our slides and code on GitHub. See you at 2pm in room Aud B3! github.com/literarylab/...

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Christof Schöch @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 17

Neat idea by Jessica Monaco and Mark Algee-Hewitt, at #dh2025, on subgenre mixture within the Gothic novel:

First, train a model to classify text segments into one of eight genres, not including the Gothic (!).

Then, ask the model to classify segments from Gothic novels into those genres in […]

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Stanford Literary Lab @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social · Jul 17

#DH2025: Later today, at 2PM in room Aud B3: @guhrs.bsky.social, Huijun Mao & ‪@alexsherman.bsky.social‬ tackle #SceneSegmentation in 20th-c US #Romance novels. Fine-tuning transformers vs. prompting #LLMs — who wins? #CLS #DigitalHumanities #Scenes #LiteraryComputing

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Stanford Literary Lab @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social · Jul 17

First up at 9AM in room B203: Jessica Monaco & Mark Algee-Hewitt analyze generic mixing in 19th-century #English-language #Gothic fiction. A diachronic take on literary transformation with transformer models. #DH2025 #CLS

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Stanford Literary Lab @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social · Jul 17

#DH2025: Today (07/17), two more LitLab talks take on 19th & 20th century #English fiction through transformers & #LLMs. Stay tuned! 🔍📚💻
#CLS #CulturalAnalytics #Narratology #LiteraryComputing

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Svenja Guhr @guhrs.bsky.social · Jul 16

#DH2025: So exciting to see #hallucination rates calculated in #CLS with #LLMs. Great work by @sgriebel.bsky.social, Layne-Worthey, et al. on the ongoing challenge of #CharacterAttribution in English fiction titled "Strictly Speaking: Character Attribution in Literary Dialogue with Language Models"

Hallucination Rates for the study of speaker attribution in Middlemarch

Hallucination Type in the study of speaker attribution in Middlemarch

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Anastasia Glawion @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social · Jul 16

Dalal El Youssoufi is talking about the Provenance Interface #dh2025

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Stanford Literary Lab @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social · Jul 15

#DH2025 (07/16, 4pm - 4/4):
In Room Aud B2, our Lab alum @fredner.org dives into literary references in #Jeopardy! 🧠 What texts appear, how hard are they to guess, and what does it tell us? 40 years of quiz show data will be explored! #CulturalAnalytics

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Stanford Literary Lab @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social · Jul 15

#DH2025 (07/16, 4pm - 3/4):
In Room B210: @mattgwr.bsky.social, Nichole Nomura, Gabi Keane, CarmenThong, & Mark Algee-Hewitt analyze #TextMining of scholarly citation. Ever wonder how scholars get separated from their key terms? Now’s your chance to find out. #CLS #scholarship #citations

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Stanford Literary Lab @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social · Jul 15

#DH2025 (07/16, 4pm - 2/4):
In Room B207: Carmen Thong asks a critical question - how do you build a corpus for computational #PostcolonialLiterature? A must for anyone approaching #PostcolonialStudies with #DHMethods. You're not alone! #CLS

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Stanford Literary Lab @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social · Jul 15

#DH2025 (07/16, 4pm - 1/4):
In Room B304, our director Mark Algee-Hewitt & Seth Rudy take us into #18thCentury #British knowledge systems with a computational twist.
#Enlightenment meets #DigitalHumanities.

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Stanford Literary Lab @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social · Jul 15

#DH2025 is bringing tough choices! 4 (!) LitLab talks overlap at 4pm on 07/16. Here’s your guide:

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Stanford Literary Lab @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social · Jul 15

#DH2025 - looking ahead to 07/16:
At the lunch session (12:30pm), Nichole Nomura & @raquelcoelho.bsky.social will share their work on how #WordClouds interact with students’ data & meaning-making. #DH meets #Education in the #classroom!

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Stanford Literary Lab @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social · Jul 15

Featuring the conference topic, "Building #Access and #Accessibility: Open Science to All Citizens," this workshop was a strong start to promoting inclusive #DH practices at #DH2025. #InclusiveResearch #DHofTomorrow #OpenScience

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Stanford Literary Lab @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social · Jul 15

#DH2025: Today (07/15), the workshop "Manifesto for Multilingual #DH, " co-organized by @mervetekgurler.bsky.social, focused on #MultilingualDH methods, tools, and data.

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Stanford Literary Lab @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social · Jul 15

#DH2025: We’re thrilled to be in sunny Lisbon for this year’s ADHO conference! 🌞 Whether online or onsite, we're here in full force with 8 contributions from our members, collaborators & alumni.

Let’s talk about #DH and #CLS!

More info on the speakers: litlab.stanford.edu/people/

Skyline of Lisbon (image from Wikipedia)

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