Stanford Literary Lab
stanfordlitlab.bsky.social
Stanford Literary Lab
@stanfordlitlab.bsky.social

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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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
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...
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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/...
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.
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
(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
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. 🎭📊
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
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

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

#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.