Stanford Literary Lab

(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

#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

#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

#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.

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

#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!

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

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

DH2025 Poster in front of the venue

Skyline of Lisbon (image from Wikipedia)

#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/

#DH2025: At the mini conference "The Times they are a-changing" on temporal data in #DH, our very own Huijun Mao presents their work on "Temporal Tensions: Mapping Past, Present, and Future in Modernist Literature" - focusing on #MiddleReading time in "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf. #CLS