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Svenja Guhr
@guhrs.bsky.social
Computational Literary Studies
Postdoc at @berkeleyischool.bsky.social
Founding member of @fortextlab.bsky.social
Visiting Scholar @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social
Editorial Ass. @jcls-io.bsky.social
Website: svenjaguhr.github.io
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Furthermore, while #Hades' power correlates negatively with #StoryPopularity, #Persephone's agency correlates positively with it, leading to the fittingly playful title, 'A Powerful Hades Is an Unpopular Dude'.
October 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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On average: Persephone shows higher power, while Hades exhibits higher agency — revealing shifting dynamics in myth reinterpretation. ⚖️
A fascinating look at #gender, #power & classical reception through #NLP and #fanfiction. ✨
October 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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@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.
October 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"The nightmare of generative narratology" - "A sea of blah"... 🌊 Will we drown? #GenerativeLLM #StoryTelling
October 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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✍️ Mark your calendars - here are the important dates:
🏰 CCLS26 takes place from 28-29, 2026, at the @unipotsdam.bsky.social, Germany;
🗓️ Deadline for submissions: January 8, 2026;
🔜 Submissions open: starting November 3, 2025.
jcls.io/site/dates/
Important Dates
jcls.io
September 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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- Methodology & results on JCLS 4(1): doi.org/10.48694/jcl...
A model for studying cultural communities far beyond St. Petersburg.

#DigitalHumanities #CulturalNetworkAnalysis #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CCLS2025 #CLS #JCLS
September 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Open Data & Code
- Dataset (15k+ events) on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1375...
- Processing pipeline & analysis tools on GitHub: github.com/mary-lev/lit...
Literary Events in Saint Petersburg (1999-2019) from SPbLitGuide Newsletters
This dataset contains detailed entries of cultural and literary events in Saint Petersburg from May 1999 to October 2019, as documented in the SPbLitGuide newsletters. The original newsletter, created...
zenodo.org
September 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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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.
September 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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The study maps 20 years of literary life in St. Petersburg (1999–2019) analyzing events as community-structuring mechanisms.
📊 15,012 events · 11,777 participants · 862 venues · over 100,000 attendance records
September 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM