Julia Neugarten

Happy International Volunteer Day to all my colleagues -- in translation and beyond -- who help make the Organization for Transformative Works and the Archive of Our Own possible!

@transformativeworks.org @archiveofourown.org

Fifty Shades of Twilight: A Computational Approach to Textual Adaptation This paper analyzes the relationship between the Twilight Saga and Fifty Shades trilogy as a case study on the relationship between published fiction and fanfiction. We aim to develop computational me...

What is the relationship between #Twilight and Fifty Shades? What do these texts reveal about the relationship between published fiction and fanfiction when studied computationally? Find out in our new article (with Barbara Bordalejo and @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social)

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New paper for #CHR2025

Curious how fanfiction genre-tags in 4 different fandoms (Greek Myth, Harry Potter, LOTR and Harry Potter) influence the sentiment of their story arcs? Read on!

Thanks to co-authors @pascaleispunk.bsky.social, Mia Jacobsen and Yuri Bizzoni

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This article by @julianeugarten.bsky.social is a fascinating glimpse into fanfiction responding to Ancient Greek mythology as well as a meditation on the suitability of specific digital methods for analysing fanfic, emphasising the importance of close reading in computational literary studies 👀📖

In #TWC46's first New Currents article, @julianeugarten.bsky.social explores the potential of a suite of natural language processing and machine learning tools to examine power and gender dynamics in fan fiction featuring characters from Greek mythology! Read it here:

Come join the @transformativeworks.org as a volunteer, it's so much fun!

It was a pleasure yesterday to present my poster 'Feveruary: Understanding Sickfic' at the Research Day around the topic of ‘Feelings and Flesh: Affect, Health, and the Textual Body’ organized by OSL.

The poster is available here: zenodo.org/records/1746...

@julianeugarten.bsky.social explores #power and #agency in fanfiction retellings of the #Persephone and #Hades myth — using #Riveter (by @mariaa.bsky.social et al. 2023), the study analyzes 482 #fanfiction stories to measure how Persephone and Hades are portrayed.

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...

My paper "A Powerful Hades Is an Unpopular Dude. Dynamics of Power and Agency in Hades/Persephone Fanfiction" jcls.io/article/id/4... is now published with @jcls-io.bsky.social. Thanks so much to the editors and peer reviewers who made this possible. I am proud as a peacock! 🦚

That's a great comment! I have an article under review at @jcls-io.bsky.social right now that examines the role of time -- including the release of the Hades videogame -- in this data.

My lovely friend Naomi Jacobs (@ladylark.bsky.social) and I wanted to explore the repercussions of the new-found prevalence of AI on fans, fandom and fan studies. Some excellent scholars contributed articles to a special section of @journal.transformativeworks.org, which is out now! Enjoy!

Thanks so much, it's a wonderful tool!

Proud to see my article 'Using Riveter to map gendered power dynamics in Hades/Persephone fan fiction' in @journal.transformativeworks.org, my favorite academic journal.

Want to know how fanfiction portrays power dynamics between these two? Read on!

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Hedgehog illustration, woodland and cottage in background

Hedgehog, William MacGillivray, 1828.

Zingend door de Griekse onderwereld In Hadestown komt de Griekse onderwereld van Hades en Persephone in een musical tot leven. Naast het oude verhaal is er ook ruimte voor een modern probleem: klimaatverandering.

Mijn nieuwste blogpost voor de Faces of Science van de @knaw-nl.bsky.social staat nu online!

In dit stukje beschrijf ik hoe de ultra-populaire musical Hadestown, momenteel te zien in Carré, elementen uit de Oudheid gebruikt om hedendaagse maatschappelijke problemen aan te kaarten.

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Amazon review of Pride and Prejudice, left by carlton p morgan on 30 July 2010: "Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses"

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

What a great, engaging, insightful talk by @artjomshl.bsky.social. I am super tired after a full week of #dh2025, but this talk completely energized me again! #cls

For archiving purposes, the slides for our #dh2025 talk presented yesterday are now up on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1603...

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@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

Tell me about it, the struggle is real 😓

Yes I was thinking the same thing! Let's talk more about that. Maybe there is a way you could also use Riveter or a similar method?

A shout-out to the amazing @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social for a very nice presentation! Now I feel like re-reading a bunch of fairytales... #dh2025

Using aspect-based #SentimentAnalysis and #VSMs, they explore how angst and fluff in #fanfiction based on #GreekMyth reshape the reception of the #ClassicalCanon … because sometimes readers just want their Greek gods having more drama, sex, and tragedy... #FanStudies #CLS

Julia Neugarten presenting at DH2025

#DH2025: @julianeugarten.bsky.social & Thijs Meijerink present their work titled “Giddy Gods and Happy Heroes: Detecting #Character-Emotions in #Fanfiction about #GreekMyth with #VectorSpaceModels”.

First slide of our presentation showing the title, authors and their affiliation.

Slides from our #DH2025 presentation:

"Wikipedia as an Echo Chamber of Canonicity: ›1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die‹"

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#DigitalHumanities @viktor.im @temporal-communities.de @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

Happy to be in sunny Lisbon and enjoying the pre-conference workshops today #dh2025

#dh2025 is underway with a lovely mini-conference! 📖

Poster of a mini conference at DH2025 about digital methods for comparative literary studies

#DH2025 attendants, we will also stream this mini-conference about digital methodsin comparativeliterature, so anybody is welcome to attend!

With 17 lightning talks and demo! ⚡️📢
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#DigitalHumanities #ComputationalLiteraryStudies
@dh2025lisbon.bsky.social