Stanford Literary Lab

CCLS2026 Call for Posters

One week left for submitting a poster proposal for #CCLS2026! #CallForPosters 🔜 03.03.26

Neues Palais, Potsdam

🗓️ Mark your calendars!

#CCLS2026 will take place in beautiful #Potsdam 🏰 on May 28-29. Join us in person 👥 or online 💻 to discuss cutting-edge research in #CLS.

📚💻🔍 jcls.io/site/ccls2026/
@dhpotsdam.bsky.social #DH #LiteraryComputing

Comparison of Days Passed from Final Acceptance to Publication (2022 vs. 2023 vs. 2024 vs. 2025)

From final review to publication

We're especially proud of our accelerated publication process, from final acceptance to article publication. That's when the editors and editorial assistants handle: copyediting, code review, typesetting, publication, and article advertising.
#AcademicPublishing #Journal

JCLS Welcome Slide of the Board Meeting 2026

Today was our annual board meeting, where the editors reported on the first 4 issues of #JCLS with statistics on the submission/acceptance ratio, conference participation, and the accelerated publication process since the first issue.
#LiteraryComputing #Journal #CCLS2026 #NewYear #Issue5

2026 with 0 replaced by Literary Lab Logo

Time flies! 🗓️🎆💫
The members of the Stanford Literary Lab wish everyone a happy 2026 full of new exciting #DigitalHumanities and #ComputationalLiteraryStudies research!
#LiteraryComputing #CLS #DH #English #Literature

A Powerful Hades Is an Unpopular Dude. Dynamics of Power and Agency in Hades/Persephone Fanfiction This paper employs Riveter (Antoniak et al. 2023) to analyze the dynamics of power and agency between the characters of Persephone and Hades in 482 short works of fanfiction (369,809 words total) abou...

We're thrilled to announce the 3rd article from JCLS 4 (1): @julianeugarten.bsky.social “A Powerful Hades Is an Unpopular Dude. Dynamics of Power and Agency in Hades/Persephone Fanfiction” (10.48694/jcls.4208). #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CLS #JCLS #DigitalHumanities #CCLS25

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/...

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! 💙

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

(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

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

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

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

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 at the DH2025

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

Luca presenting at DH2025

Luca's main takeaway

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. 🎭📊

Luca Giovannini citing Mark Algee-Hewitt

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 presenting at DH2025

#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

#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

@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

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

Anastasia and Dhara presenting at #DH2025

#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

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/...

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 […]

#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

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

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

Hallucination Rates for the study of speaker attribution in Middlemarch

Hallucination Type in the study of speaker attribution in Middlemarch

#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"

Dalal El Youssoufi is talking about the Provenance Interface #dh2025

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.

#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