JCLS
@jcls-io.bsky.social
Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS), edited by Evelyn Gius, Peer Trilcke and Christof Schöch.
This international journal is published in diamond open access, peer-reviewed, international, and also organizing an annual conference (CCLS).
This international journal is published in diamond open access, peer-reviewed, international, and also organizing an annual conference (CCLS).
New article in #JCLS 4(1)! 🎉
Havrylash & @christofs.bsky.social introduce a method for evaluating measures of #distinctiveness ( #keyness ) using synthetically generated, fully controlled text data.
#CLS #TextAnalysis #Evaluation #NLP #NLG #LiteraryComputing #CCLS25
jcls.io/issue/118/in...
Havrylash & @christofs.bsky.social introduce a method for evaluating measures of #distinctiveness ( #keyness ) using synthetically generated, fully controlled text data.
#CLS #TextAnalysis #Evaluation #NLP #NLG #LiteraryComputing #CCLS25
jcls.io/issue/118/in...
Journal of Computational Literary Studies |
Issue: Issue: 1(4) (2025)
jcls.io
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
New article in #JCLS 4(1)! 🎉
Havrylash & @christofs.bsky.social introduce a method for evaluating measures of #distinctiveness ( #keyness ) using synthetically generated, fully controlled text data.
#CLS #TextAnalysis #Evaluation #NLP #NLG #LiteraryComputing #CCLS25
jcls.io/issue/118/in...
Havrylash & @christofs.bsky.social introduce a method for evaluating measures of #distinctiveness ( #keyness ) using synthetically generated, fully controlled text data.
#CLS #TextAnalysis #Evaluation #NLP #NLG #LiteraryComputing #CCLS25
jcls.io/issue/118/in...
New week, new article in #JCLS 4(1)! 🚀
We’re excited to announce @andrewpiper.bsky.social: “Towards a Perspectival Moral History of the Novel Using #LLMs”. Using 9,000+ Wikipedia plot summaries, he asks: What life lessons do stories quietly teach us at scale?
#CCLS25 #CLS #LiteraryComputing
We’re excited to announce @andrewpiper.bsky.social: “Towards a Perspectival Moral History of the Novel Using #LLMs”. Using 9,000+ Wikipedia plot summaries, he asks: What life lessons do stories quietly teach us at scale?
#CCLS25 #CLS #LiteraryComputing
Journal of Computational Literary Studies |
Issue: Issue: 1(4) (2025)
jcls.io
November 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
New week, new article in #JCLS 4(1)! 🚀
We’re excited to announce @andrewpiper.bsky.social: “Towards a Perspectival Moral History of the Novel Using #LLMs”. Using 9,000+ Wikipedia plot summaries, he asks: What life lessons do stories quietly teach us at scale?
#CCLS25 #CLS #LiteraryComputing
We’re excited to announce @andrewpiper.bsky.social: “Towards a Perspectival Moral History of the Novel Using #LLMs”. Using 9,000+ Wikipedia plot summaries, he asks: What life lessons do stories quietly teach us at scale?
#CCLS25 #CLS #LiteraryComputing
We're thrilled to announce a new article from #JCLS 4 (1): Keith, A., @antoniorojascastro.bsky.social, Ehrlicher, H., Jung, K. & Padó, S. (2025): #ComputationalAnalysis of #Gender Depiction in the #Comedias of #Calderón de la Barca (10.48694/jcls.4055) can be found at #CLS #CCLS25 #Theatre
Journal of Computational Literary Studies |
Issue: Issue: 1(4) (2025)
jcls.io
November 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
We're thrilled to announce a new article from #JCLS 4 (1): Keith, A., @antoniorojascastro.bsky.social, Ehrlicher, H., Jung, K. & Padó, S. (2025): #ComputationalAnalysis of #Gender Depiction in the #Comedias of #Calderón de la Barca (10.48694/jcls.4055) can be found at #CLS #CCLS25 #Theatre
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New paper out! Our Hebrew Novel Project started as a citizen science effort to collect data on thousands of novels. We quickly realized - surprise, surprise : ) - that reading is complex.
This week, we announce another article from #JCLS 4 (1):
Gilad Aviel Jacobson, @itaymm.bsky.social, and Yael Dekel. “From Readers to Data: #Uncertainty in Computational Literary Citizen Science” (10.48694/jcls.4169).
Check it out at: jcls.io/issue/118/in... #CLS #CCLS25 #CitizenScience
Gilad Aviel Jacobson, @itaymm.bsky.social, and Yael Dekel. “From Readers to Data: #Uncertainty in Computational Literary Citizen Science” (10.48694/jcls.4169).
Check it out at: jcls.io/issue/118/in... #CLS #CCLS25 #CitizenScience
From Readers to Data. Uncertainty in Computational Literary Citizen Science
We examine uncertainty in computational literary citizen science by analysing The Hebrew Novel Project, a large-scale initiative collecting reader interpretations of Hebrew novels. While citizen scien...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
New paper out! Our Hebrew Novel Project started as a citizen science effort to collect data on thousands of novels. We quickly realized - surprise, surprise : ) - that reading is complex.
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Instead of trying to normalize this complexity, we embrace it! Our paper offers a statistical-phenomenological look at the complexity of the reading act. Huge thanks to the amazing JCLS editors and reviewers! @jcls-io.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Instead of trying to normalize this complexity, we embrace it! Our paper offers a statistical-phenomenological look at the complexity of the reading act. Huge thanks to the amazing JCLS editors and reviewers! @jcls-io.bsky.social
This week, we announce another article from #JCLS 4 (1):
Gilad Aviel Jacobson, @itaymm.bsky.social, and Yael Dekel. “From Readers to Data: #Uncertainty in Computational Literary Citizen Science” (10.48694/jcls.4169).
Check it out at: jcls.io/issue/118/in... #CLS #CCLS25 #CitizenScience
Gilad Aviel Jacobson, @itaymm.bsky.social, and Yael Dekel. “From Readers to Data: #Uncertainty in Computational Literary Citizen Science” (10.48694/jcls.4169).
Check it out at: jcls.io/issue/118/in... #CLS #CCLS25 #CitizenScience
From Readers to Data. Uncertainty in Computational Literary Citizen Science
We examine uncertainty in computational literary citizen science by analysing The Hebrew Novel Project, a large-scale initiative collecting reader interpretations of Hebrew novels. While citizen scien...
doi.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This week, we announce another article from #JCLS 4 (1):
Gilad Aviel Jacobson, @itaymm.bsky.social, and Yael Dekel. “From Readers to Data: #Uncertainty in Computational Literary Citizen Science” (10.48694/jcls.4169).
Check it out at: jcls.io/issue/118/in... #CLS #CCLS25 #CitizenScience
Gilad Aviel Jacobson, @itaymm.bsky.social, and Yael Dekel. “From Readers to Data: #Uncertainty in Computational Literary Citizen Science” (10.48694/jcls.4169).
Check it out at: jcls.io/issue/118/in... #CLS #CCLS25 #CitizenScience
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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! 🦚
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...
jcls.io
October 23, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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! 🦚
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...
jcls.io
October 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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 looking for further use cases of #Janeway in conjunction with #LaTeX-based workflows (e.g. #Overleaf).
Are you working with #OJS or LaTeX-based workflows in #DOA and would like to share your experience with us?
@evomri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy #JCLS
Are you working with #OJS or LaTeX-based workflows in #DOA and would like to share your experience with us?
@evomri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy #JCLS
October 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
We're looking for further use cases of #Janeway in conjunction with #LaTeX-based workflows (e.g. #Overleaf).
Are you working with #OJS or LaTeX-based workflows in #DOA and would like to share your experience with us?
@evomri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy #JCLS
Are you working with #OJS or LaTeX-based workflows in #DOA and would like to share your experience with us?
@evomri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy #JCLS
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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/...
#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/...
September 30, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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/...
#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/...
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Exciting to see my publication with @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social in #JCLS 4(1)! It's been such a great journey discovering #DomesticSpace in 19th-Century #English-language #fiction and presenting our results at #CCLS2025. 🏡🚢🏙️🌉
#CLS meets #spatial analysis! 🏡
"Making #BERT Feel at Home. Modelling #DomesticSpace in #19th-Century British and Irish #Fiction" by @guhrs.bsky.social, J. Monaco, @alexsherman.bsky.social, @mattgwr.bsky.social and M. Algee-Hewitt is now live at #JCLS 4(1). 10.48694/jcls.4164 #transformer
"Making #BERT Feel at Home. Modelling #DomesticSpace in #19th-Century British and Irish #Fiction" by @guhrs.bsky.social, J. Monaco, @alexsherman.bsky.social, @mattgwr.bsky.social and M. Algee-Hewitt is now live at #JCLS 4(1). 10.48694/jcls.4164 #transformer
September 30, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Exciting to see my publication with @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social in #JCLS 4(1)! It's been such a great journey discovering #DomesticSpace in 19th-Century #English-language #fiction and presenting our results at #CCLS2025. 🏡🚢🏙️🌉
🚨 The new week starts with a new #JCLS 4(1) publication! The next article of this year's conference track, #CCLS2025, is here! doi.org/10.48694/jcl...
Making BERT Feel at Home. Modelling Domestic Space in 19th-Century British and Irish Fiction
We introduce a novel approach to detecting domestic space in literary texts beyond explicit spatial markers like “home” or “house.” Using a pre-trained English BERT model fine-tuned on manually annota...
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September 30, 2025 at 5:23 AM
🚨 The new week starts with a new #JCLS 4(1) publication! The next article of this year's conference track, #CCLS2025, is here! doi.org/10.48694/jcl...
🗓️ We are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for the conference+journal track of the 5th annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, May 28-29, 2026, in #Potsdam, #Germany! #CCLS26 #CfP
Submit your article by January 8, 2026, and be part of our big 5-year jubilee edition! 🥳🥳🥳
Submit your article by January 8, 2026, and be part of our big 5-year jubilee edition! 🥳🥳🥳
Call for Papers
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September 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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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! 💙
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.
@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 2:59 PM
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! 💙
@maria-lev.bsky.social’s "Computational Analysis of Literary Communities. Event-Based Social Network Study of St. Petersburg 1999-2019" is now live in the "Journal of Computational Literary Studies" 4(1)
👉 doi.org/10.48694/jcl...
👉 doi.org/10.48694/jcl...
doi.org
September 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
@maria-lev.bsky.social’s "Computational Analysis of Literary Communities. Event-Based Social Network Study of St. Petersburg 1999-2019" is now live in the "Journal of Computational Literary Studies" 4(1)
👉 doi.org/10.48694/jcl...
👉 doi.org/10.48694/jcl...
🚨 News alert!
Want to publish a #CLS journal article in < 8 months with #double-blind #PeerReview, a preprint at the conference, open peer review, code review, and beautiful design?
We're excited to announce that the first article from this year's JCLS conference track has just been published! 🚀
Want to publish a #CLS journal article in < 8 months with #double-blind #PeerReview, a preprint at the conference, open peer review, code review, and beautiful design?
We're excited to announce that the first article from this year's JCLS conference track has just been published! 🚀
September 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🚨 News alert!
Want to publish a #CLS journal article in < 8 months with #double-blind #PeerReview, a preprint at the conference, open peer review, code review, and beautiful design?
We're excited to announce that the first article from this year's JCLS conference track has just been published! 🚀
Want to publish a #CLS journal article in < 8 months with #double-blind #PeerReview, a preprint at the conference, open peer review, code review, and beautiful design?
We're excited to announce that the first article from this year's JCLS conference track has just been published! 🚀
The very first #DraCorSummit kicked off today 🎭 a full week dedicated to computational drama analysis!
We’re excited to be a partner of this event. Selected papers will appear in a special issue on computational drama analysis in #JCLS (2026).
Stay tuned! #CLS #DramaAnalysis #DraCor @dracor.org
We’re excited to be a partner of this event. Selected papers will appear in a special issue on computational drama analysis in #JCLS (2026).
Stay tuned! #CLS #DramaAnalysis #DraCor @dracor.org
September 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The very first #DraCorSummit kicked off today 🎭 a full week dedicated to computational drama analysis!
We’re excited to be a partner of this event. Selected papers will appear in a special issue on computational drama analysis in #JCLS (2026).
Stay tuned! #CLS #DramaAnalysis #DraCor @dracor.org
We’re excited to be a partner of this event. Selected papers will appear in a special issue on computational drama analysis in #JCLS (2026).
Stay tuned! #CLS #DramaAnalysis #DraCor @dracor.org
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✨ We're kicking off the #DraCorSummit 2025 in Berlin today!
5 days of digital drama analysis, enhancing #DraCor, and celebrating #OpenScience with participants from around the world at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social.
Programme:
summit.dracor.org
@temporal-communities.de @unipotsdam.bsky.social
5 days of digital drama analysis, enhancing #DraCor, and celebrating #OpenScience with participants from around the world at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social.
Programme:
summit.dracor.org
@temporal-communities.de @unipotsdam.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 11:12 AM
✨ We're kicking off the #DraCorSummit 2025 in Berlin today!
5 days of digital drama analysis, enhancing #DraCor, and celebrating #OpenScience with participants from around the world at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social.
Programme:
summit.dracor.org
@temporal-communities.de @unipotsdam.bsky.social
5 days of digital drama analysis, enhancing #DraCor, and celebrating #OpenScience with participants from around the world at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social.
Programme:
summit.dracor.org
@temporal-communities.de @unipotsdam.bsky.social
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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
(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
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
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
August 14, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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
(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
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#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
July 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
#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
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: @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
July 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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: @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: What are we really measuring when we count words? @artjomshl.bsky.social, @philaut.bsky.social & @plechac.bsky.social show how different meters distinctly shape seemingly unrelated feature distributions across Czech, German & Russian #poetry. Their main finding: Mind the meter! #CLS
July 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
#DH2025: What are we really measuring when we count words? @artjomshl.bsky.social, @philaut.bsky.social & @plechac.bsky.social show how different meters distinctly shape seemingly unrelated feature distributions across Czech, German & Russian #poetry. Their main finding: Mind the meter! #CLS
#DH2025: Steffen Pielström, Kerstin Jung & Patrick Helling put the SPP #CLS projects to the test, examining their level of #FAIRness as a case study to assess how equal automated FAIRness tests are.
#FAIR #FAIRprinciples
#FAIR #FAIRprinciples
July 18, 2025 at 10:41 AM
#DH2025: Steffen Pielström, Kerstin Jung & Patrick Helling put the SPP #CLS projects to the test, examining their level of #FAIRness as a case study to assess how equal automated FAIRness tests are.
#FAIR #FAIRprinciples
#FAIR #FAIRprinciples
#DH2025: Xiaoyan Yang & @fpianz.bsky.social present a #multilingual #CLS pipeline comparing #English & #Chinese #fanfiction. Using #BookNLP, #ARMCC & #LLMs, they address #CoreferenceResolution, dialogue speaker & character feature extraction 🔥 hot topics at this year's conference. 📚🌏
July 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
#DH2025: Xiaoyan Yang & @fpianz.bsky.social present a #multilingual #CLS pipeline comparing #English & #Chinese #fanfiction. Using #BookNLP, #ARMCC & #LLMs, they address #CoreferenceResolution, dialogue speaker & character feature extraction 🔥 hot topics at this year's conference. 📚🌏
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Gephi Lite is great, it allows for a direct import of character network data from #DraCor, included in our "Tools" tab. Try the German "Hamlet" translation (Schlegel/Tieck edition 1843/44): dracor.org/id/gersh0000...
(Especially love the "Guess settings" option for ForceAtlas2 layouting!)
#DH2025
(Especially love the "Guess settings" option for ForceAtlas2 layouting!)
#DH2025
July 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Gephi Lite is great, it allows for a direct import of character network data from #DraCor, included in our "Tools" tab. Try the German "Hamlet" translation (Schlegel/Tieck edition 1843/44): dracor.org/id/gersh0000...
(Especially love the "Guess settings" option for ForceAtlas2 layouting!)
#DH2025
(Especially love the "Guess settings" option for ForceAtlas2 layouting!)
#DH2025