• Paul Barrett

• cultural criticism
• dh
• literary studies

• Distant Reading

The article challenges the retro-humanist critique of the digital humanities, arguing that these critiques constitute idealized, unsituated criticism that depend upon a narrow conception of the proper questions, methods, and objects of analysis for the humanities.

• Dhanashree Thorat

• globalDH
• infrastructure
• literary studies
• race

• Black digital humanities
• postcolonial digital humanities
• digital divide

In June 2019, Google announced a new undersea fiber-optic cable line connecting Portugal and South Africa and named it Equiano after Olaudah Equiano, an eighteenth-century Black man who was kidnapped from his Igbo village and sold into slavery. This article reads Google's infrastructural initiative against the grain of Equiano's autobiographical narrative to locate how the violent afterlives of slavery and colonialism manifest in and undergird Internet infrastructure projects today.

• Gilad Gutman

• network
• nlp
• machine learning
• literary studies

• Shakespeare
• Timon of Athens
• figurative language
• network theory

Weaving metaphors and Shakespeare's nets: this article explores a novel method for the analysis of figurative language by using topic classification and network analysis, with an exploration of its potential through Shakespeare's Timon of Athens.

• Céline Thobois-Gupta

• digital
• elit
• literary studies
• performance

• Samuel Beckett
• genetic criticism
• mind theory
• Beckett Digital Manuscript Project
• performance
• theatre
• translation

Reviewing James Little's book, The Making of Samuel Beckett’s Not I / Pas moi, That Time / Cette fois and Footfalls / Pas

• Frédérique Mélanie-Becquet
• Clément Plancq
• Claude Grunspan
• Mylène Maignant
• Matthieu Raffard
• Mathilde Roussel
• Fiammetta Ghedini
• Thierry Poibeau

• access
• corpora
• elit
• gender
• literary studies
• materialisms
• nlp
• project report
• users

• poetry
• language generation
• natural language processing
• poetry generation

Poetry combinatorics: exploring how poetry can be produced automatically, using a mix of literature, computer and art!

• František Válek
• Jan Hajič, Jr.

• machine learning
• literary studies

• authorship attribution
• dataset design
• Czech
• experiment design
• delexicalisation

Do machine learning algorithms recognise author style, or rather a specific book an author has written?

• Ali M. Rahman

• oral history
• reading
• web
• media studies
• literary studies

This article reviews John Miles Foley's book, Oral Tradition and the Internet: Pathways of the Mind.

• Angelika Zirker
• Michael Göggelmann

• literary studies
• annotation
• data modeling
• pedagogy

• annotation
• digital literary studies
• DH in teaching
• Jane Austen
• modality
• ambiguity

• Victoria Beatrix Fendel
• Matthew T.Ireland

• classics
• corpora
• linguistics
• literary studies
• project report
• tools

• cohesion
• coherence
• Xenophon
• On Horsemanship
• support-verb construction
• Sketch Engine

Xenophon's treatise On Horsemanship lets support-verb constructions do all the hard work for his community of practice.

• Jason Boyd

• code studies
• literary studies
• elit

This case study aims to elaborate the value of Scarlet Portrait Parlor as a rich example of how poetry, programming, and interactive fiction can be intertwined if not blurred in a single text.

• Ophir Münz-Manor
• Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky

• literary studies
• data visualization
• medieval
• religion
• annotation
• tools
• project report

• computational literary studies
• visualization
• annotation
• tagset
• medieval Hebrew poetry
• hermeneutics

The authors introduce a new visualization tool (ViS-À-ViS) which uses CATMA annotations and promises to let users see both the forest and the trees.

• Heyam Abd Alhadi
• Ali Ahmad Hussein
• Tsvi Kuflik

• rhetoric
• area studies
• literary studies
• machine learning
• project report
• corpora

• Text mining
• Arabic natural language processing
• rule-based
• classical Arabic poetry
• rhetorical elements

A novel, rule-based, automatic framework for identifying rhetorical elements in classical Arabic poetry is described.

• Simone Rebora

• literary studies
• tools
• project report
• content analysis

• Sentiment Analysis
• Tool Criticism
• Literary Theory
• Computational Literary Studies

The article sets up a critique of Sentiment Analysis (SA) tools in literary studies, both from a theoretical and a computational point of view.

• J. Berenike Herrmann
• Anne-Sophie Bories
• Francesca Frontini
• Clèmence Jacquot
• Steffen Pielström
• Simone Rebora
• Geoffrey Rockwell
• Stéfan Sinclair

• literary studies
• tools
• stylistics
• data analytics

This article reflects a rich array of perspectives on tools criticism, arguing that we need tools and methods as a basic common ground on how to carry out fundamental operations of analysis and interpretation within a community.

• Claire Battershill

• project management
• literary studies
• collaboration
• ethics

• project resiliency
• collaboration
• project management
• ethics
• literary studies

Digital projects as temporal and narrative forms

• Christine M. Gottlieb

• users
• standards
• access
• ethics
• digital
• literary studies

• Shakespeare
• Universal Design
• Disability Studies

This article argues for making Shakespeare resources radically accessible and inclusive by incorporating both Universal Design approaches and Disability Studies perspectives.

• David Thomson

• access
• data analytics
• hypertext
• literary studies

This article examines the influence of one edition of Whitman's poems one a subsequent edition using open-source information science programming methodology

• Zahra Rizvi
• Rohan Chauhan
• A. Sean Pue
• Nishat Zaidi

• literary studies
• project management
• access
• minimal computing
• data modeling

Exploring minimal computing as a method for creating multilingual, digital critical editions of Indian-language poetry.

• Hoyeol Kim

• nlp
• literary studies
• tools

• Syuzhet
• Sentiment Analysis
• Lexicons
• Bing
• Afinn
• NRC

Exploring the limits and abilities of the dictionary-based tool Syuzhet against impactful critique.

• Anette Hagen
• Elise Seip Tønnessen

• comics
• reading
• ar
• literary studies
• media studies
• graphic design

A close reading of the AR comic by Stuart Campbell: Modern Polaxis.

• Simone Murray

• literary studies
• history
• elit
• reading
• media studies

Proposing a "meso space" between the disparate poles of digital literary studies.

• Wenyi Shang
• Winbin Huang

• history
• literary studies

• digital humanities
• political struggle
• literati politics
• Northern Song dynasty
• Reform of Wang Anshi

Illustrating a feature of “literati politics” which was prominent in 11th century China via a Poission-Gamma factorization model and the Louvain Modularity algorithm.

• Robert Gorman

• stylistics
• nlp
• literary studies
• annotation

Exploring the wider applicability of machine-generated morphological and syntactic annotation methods of stylometrics and classification, so that they give good results with small texts.

• Kailey Fukushima
• Karen Bourrier
• Janice Parker

• gender
• literary studies
• project report
• history
• tools

In this paper, we explore the material conditions of scholarship and digital editorial work that make uncovering nineteenth-century women’s lives possible in the twenty-first century.

• Nozomu Okuda
• Jeffery Kinnison
• Patrick Burns
• Neil Coffee
• Walter Scheirer

• tools
• project report
• project management
• literary studies

Two case studies demonstrate the contributions of the TIS-API to computer-assisted literary criticism, particularly in increased software development and maintenance flexibility as well as in easier integration of Tesserae software into research workflows.

• Erik Ketzan
• Christof Schöch

• tools
• literary studies
• translation

This paper introduces Coleto, an automatic collation tool for the comparison of variant texts in English, German, or French, which separates edits from variant texts so that textual changes can be classified and contextualized.

• Sean Weidman
• Aaren Pastor

• literary studies
• gender
• stylistics

We outline the limitations of our own and prior approaches to questions of gender and literary style, and we eventually consider how even a structurally flawed stylometric analysis can acquaint us to new ways that modernism and its stylistic innovations haunt certain kinds of digital literary criticism.

• Jason Boyd

• literary studies
• digitization
• databases
• editing

Review of Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools

• Ryan Cordell

• literary studies
• history
• archives
• gender

This is a review of A World of Fiction by Katherine Bode.

• Johannes Burgers

• collaboration
• databases
• literary studies
• tools

This article discusses the Digital Yoknapatawpha project held at the University of Virginia.

• Rabea Kleymann
• Jan-Erik Stange

• data visualization
• literary studies
• philosophy
• project report
• reading

This article discusses hermeneutic data visualizations within the field of digital literary studies.

• Giulia Benotto

• stylistics
• literary studies

• distributional semantics
• stylometry
• vector space model
• italian literature
• verism
• autorship attribution
• human stylome

This article explores whether authorship can be attributed through word distribution by applying distributional semantics to a corpus of Italian literature.

• Nicole Gray

• literary studies
• code studies
• materialisms
• markup
• reading

This articles examines a Walt Whitman manuscript through the lens of code.

• Natalie Philips
• Alexander Babbitt
• Soohyun Cho
• Jessica Kane
• Cody Mejeur
• Craig Pearson

• collaboration
• project report
• pedagogy
• infrastructure
• literary studies

This is a case study describing the creation of the Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition lab at Michigan State University and the interdisciplinary research efforts made within the lab.

• Melinda A. Cro
• Sara K. Kearns

• project report
• pedagogy
• collaboration
• interdisciplinarity
• literary studies
• language studies

Analyzes the implementation of DH theories and methods in designing and teaching a university-level second-language course

• Peter Broadwell
• Jack W. Chen
• David Shepard

• history
• literary studies
• corpora
• nlp
• reading
• area studies

Examines how topic modeling and divergence measures can be used to examine literary historical questions regarding Tang poetry

• Cait Coker
• Kate Ozment

• literary studies
• citation
• archives
• gender
• project management

Articulates a digital adaptation of enumerative bibliography and argues for its recuperative potential in feminist literary history.

• Hannah Schwan
• Janina Jacke
• Rabea Kleymann
• Jan-Erik Stange
• Marian Dörk

• collaboration
• literary studies
• data visualization
• users
• project report
• graphic design

What is creative data literacy?