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Stanford Literary Lab @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social · 8d

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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Maria Levchenko @maria-lev.bsky.social · 16d

Journal of Computational Literary Studies has the most beautiful journal design — and such a great team behind it! Happy and honoured to be published here: bsky.app/profile/jcls... Many thanks to everyone involved! 💙

JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 16d

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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Julia Jennifer Beine @juliajbeine.bsky.social · Aug 14

The registration for the #DraCor Summit in Berlin is open until 20 August. Register soon!

(You may also participate in some parts of the programme online.)

#DH #CLS #ClassicsBluesky #LitWiss
@temporal-communities.de @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @unipotsdam.bsky.social @dhpotsdam.bsky.social

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

His method of building "play #embeddings" resonates with formalist traditions in #CLS. We were pleased to see the work of our director, Mark Algee-Hewitt (2017), on "Distributed Character: Qualitative Models of the #English Stage, 1550–1900", cited as part of this methodological context. #DH2025

Luca Giovannini citing Mark Algee-Hewitt

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

#DH2025: Last session before the keynote, @lucagiovannini.bsky.social presents his approach to operationalizing dramatic texts. Tracing key components of plays from #Aristotle to Russian #Formalism to modern literary theory, he investigates how to #operationalize plays using #vectorization. 🎭 #drama

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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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Julia Neugarten @julianeugarten.bsky.social · Jul 17

@guhrs.bsky.social has me absolutely dying to read the 'Men in America' series now: one romance novel for each of the 50 states! #dh2025 #CLS @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social

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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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · Jul 16

I made a #DH2025 feed that looks for posts that include the hashtag and posts from/about @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social. You can press the 📌 for easy access.

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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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