Julia Neugarten
@julianeugarten.bsky.social
Researcher of fandom studies, fanfiction, computational literary studies and literary reception. Currently a PhD candidate at Radboud University. Views are my own.
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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:
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November 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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 👀📖
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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:
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November 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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!
Are you fluent in a language other than English? Do you have graphic design skills? Are you interested in the rescue and preservation of fanworks? Are you passionate about AO3 and want to help us better reply to users all around the world? The #OTW is recruiting! otw-news.org/ye2xs9w3.
November 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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...
The poster is available here: zenodo.org/records/1746...
Feveruary: Understanding Sickfic
Fanfiction – stories written by and for fans, inspired by existing stories, and published for free online – often contains and explores illness narratives. This poster presents an exploratory analysis...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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...
The poster is available here: zenodo.org/records/1746...
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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
@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.
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...
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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! 🦚
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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!
I'm really excited that a collection of fascinating work on fandom, fans and AI that @suzannerblack.bsky.social and I co-edited is out today in the new volume of @journal.transformativeworks.org - and as the journal's first 'New Currents' section! Read our editorial here doi.org/10.3983/twc....
Fans and AI: Transformations in fandom and fan studies
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September 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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!
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!
journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...
Want to know how fanfiction portrays power dynamics between these two? Read on!
journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...
Using Riveter to map gendered power dynamics in Hades/Persephone fan fiction
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September 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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!
journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...
Want to know how fanfiction portrays power dynamics between these two? Read on!
journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...
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Hedgehog, William MacGillivray, 1828.
September 5, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Hedgehog, William MacGillivray, 1828.
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.
bitly.cx/BHSKS
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.
bitly.cx/BHSKS
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.
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August 5, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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.
bitly.cx/BHSKS
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.
bitly.cx/BHSKS
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Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate
July 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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
#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 1:57 PM
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...
Giddy Gods and Happy Heroes: Detecting Character-Emotions in Fanfiction about Greek Myth with Vector Space Models
Powerpoint for the long paper presented at DH2025. We analyze associations between fictional characters and emotions in a corpus of fanfiction about Greek myth, using vector space models. We examine t...
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July 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
For archiving purposes, the slides for our #dh2025 talk presented yesterday are now up on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1603...
@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
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
#dh2025
July 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
@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
Tell me about it, the struggle is real 😓
Brain-split for many #DH2025 participants, who are also finalizing their @comphumresearch.bsky.social submissions. #CHR2025
July 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Tell me about it, the struggle is real 😓
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
And now our @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social and Dhara Lechner presenting on editorial shifts in the Grimm brothers‘ tales! Focusing especially on the relation between speech acts and gender 🤩🤩 Such an exciting project!!! #dh2025 @dhssfau.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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
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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
July 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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
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#DH2025: @julianeugarten.bsky.social & Thijs Meijerink present their work titled “Giddy Gods and Happy Heroes: Detecting #Character-Emotions in #Fanfiction about #GreekMyth with #VectorSpaceModels”.
July 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
#DH2025: @julianeugarten.bsky.social & Thijs Meijerink present their work titled “Giddy Gods and Happy Heroes: Detecting #Character-Emotions in #Fanfiction about #GreekMyth with #VectorSpaceModels”.
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Slides from our #DH2025 presentation:
"Wikipedia as an Echo Chamber of Canonicity: ›1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die‹"
bit.ly/1001echo
#DigitalHumanities @viktor.im @temporal-communities.de @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
"Wikipedia as an Echo Chamber of Canonicity: ›1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die‹"
bit.ly/1001echo
#DigitalHumanities @viktor.im @temporal-communities.de @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Slides from our #DH2025 presentation:
"Wikipedia as an Echo Chamber of Canonicity: ›1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die‹"
bit.ly/1001echo
#DigitalHumanities @viktor.im @temporal-communities.de @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
"Wikipedia as an Echo Chamber of Canonicity: ›1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die‹"
bit.ly/1001echo
#DigitalHumanities @viktor.im @temporal-communities.de @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
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#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! ⚡️📢
dls.hypotheses.org/1952
#DigitalHumanities #ComputationalLiteraryStudies
@dh2025lisbon.bsky.social
With 17 lightning talks and demo! ⚡️📢
dls.hypotheses.org/1952
#DigitalHumanities #ComputationalLiteraryStudies
@dh2025lisbon.bsky.social
July 14, 2025 at 10:48 AM
#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! ⚡️📢
dls.hypotheses.org/1952
#DigitalHumanities #ComputationalLiteraryStudies
@dh2025lisbon.bsky.social
With 17 lightning talks and demo! ⚡️📢
dls.hypotheses.org/1952
#DigitalHumanities #ComputationalLiteraryStudies
@dh2025lisbon.bsky.social
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