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
It is directed by Mark Algee-Hewitt and Associate Directors Nichole Nomura and Matt Warner.
https://litlab.stanford.edu/about
His method of building "play #embeddings" resonates with formalist traditions in #CLS. We were pleased to see the work of our director, Mark Algee-Hewitt (2017), on "Distributed Character: Qualitative Models of the #English Stage, 1550–1900", cited as part of this methodological context. #DH2025
July 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
His method of building "play #embeddings" resonates with formalist traditions in #CLS. We were pleased to see the work of our director, Mark Algee-Hewitt (2017), on "Distributed Character: Qualitative Models of the #English Stage, 1550–1900", cited as part of this methodological context. #DH2025
#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
#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
July 18, 2025 at 10:03 AM
#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
#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
July 17, 2025 at 7:18 AM
#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
July 17, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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 (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
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
July 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
#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
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
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
July 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
#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
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
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
July 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
#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
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.
In Room B304, our director Mark Algee-Hewitt & Seth Rudy take us into #18thCentury #British knowledge systems with a computational twist.
#Enlightenment meets #DigitalHumanities.
July 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
#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.
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 - 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!
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!
July 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
#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!
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!
#DH2025: Today (07/15), the workshop "Manifesto for Multilingual #DH, " co-organized by @mervetekgurler.bsky.social, focused on #MultilingualDH methods, tools, and data.
July 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
#DH2025: Today (07/15), the workshop "Manifesto for Multilingual #DH, " co-organized by @mervetekgurler.bsky.social, focused on #MultilingualDH methods, tools, and data.
#DH2025: We’re thrilled to be in sunny Lisbon for this year’s ADHO conference! 🌞 Whether online or onsite, we're here in full force with 8 contributions from our members, collaborators & alumni.
Let’s talk about #DH and #CLS!
More info on the speakers: litlab.stanford.edu/people/
Let’s talk about #DH and #CLS!
More info on the speakers: litlab.stanford.edu/people/
July 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
#DH2025: We’re thrilled to be in sunny Lisbon for this year’s ADHO conference! 🌞 Whether online or onsite, we're here in full force with 8 contributions from our members, collaborators & alumni.
Let’s talk about #DH and #CLS!
More info on the speakers: litlab.stanford.edu/people/
Let’s talk about #DH and #CLS!
More info on the speakers: litlab.stanford.edu/people/
#DH2025: At the mini conference "The Times they are a-changing" on temporal data in #DH, our very own Huijun Mao presents their work on "Temporal Tensions: Mapping Past, Present, and Future in Modernist Literature" - focusing on #MiddleReading time in "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf. #CLS
July 15, 2025 at 11:24 AM
#DH2025: At the mini conference "The Times they are a-changing" on temporal data in #DH, our very own Huijun Mao presents their work on "Temporal Tensions: Mapping Past, Present, and Future in Modernist Literature" - focusing on #MiddleReading time in "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf. #CLS
We look forward to presenting our research on Modeling Domestic Space at #CCLS2025 today.
Slides and code on: github.com/literarylab/...
Slides and code on: github.com/literarylab/...
July 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
We look forward to presenting our research on Modeling Domestic Space at #CCLS2025 today.
Slides and code on: github.com/literarylab/...
Slides and code on: github.com/literarylab/...
✈️ Now heading to Germany to visit the #CompAnno project @ University of Cologne as an SPP #CLS Visiting Researcher, we wished project lead & visiting postdoc @guhrs.bsky.social good travels, hoping to welcome her back to Stanford this summer! 🍰📚 #DigitalHumanities dfg-spp-cls.github.io
March 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
✈️ Now heading to Germany to visit the #CompAnno project @ University of Cologne as an SPP #CLS Visiting Researcher, we wished project lead & visiting postdoc @guhrs.bsky.social good travels, hoping to welcome her back to Stanford this summer! 🍰📚 #DigitalHumanities dfg-spp-cls.github.io
In our weekly lab meeting, the Dime Novels project group shared exciting updates on their second milestone: exploring scene segmentation & domestic space in US romance novels. A great discussion on computational approaches to literary analysis of #PopularFiction! #DigitalHumanities #CLS #Romance
March 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
In our weekly lab meeting, the Dime Novels project group shared exciting updates on their second milestone: exploring scene segmentation & domestic space in US romance novels. A great discussion on computational approaches to literary analysis of #PopularFiction! #DigitalHumanities #CLS #Romance
Many thanks to our guests from Germany for a productive week of talks, workshops, discussions and plans for future work. Have a safe journey back and hopefully some of us will see each other again at #DH25 in Lisbon - at the other red bridge 🌉
February 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Many thanks to our guests from Germany for a productive week of talks, workshops, discussions and plans for future work. Have a safe journey back and hopefully some of us will see each other again at #DH25 in Lisbon - at the other red bridge 🌉
On a splendid last day of the visit of our guests from @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social, we wrapped up the discussions of the previous days and made plans for further cooperation in the future, working on German and US #RomanceFiction in a comparative approach using #ComputationalMethods. #CompLit #CLS
February 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
On a splendid last day of the visit of our guests from @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social, we wrapped up the discussions of the previous days and made plans for further cooperation in the future, working on German and US #RomanceFiction in a comparative approach using #ComputationalMethods. #CompLit #CLS
After introductory talks by @fotisjannidis.bsky.social on the study of characters, @agneshilger.bsky.social on the operationalization of character descriptions, and @guhrs.bsky.social on the study of character sounds, we annotated sample texts and discussed what #GenderStereotypes are represented.
February 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
After introductory talks by @fotisjannidis.bsky.social on the study of characters, @agneshilger.bsky.social on the operationalization of character descriptions, and @guhrs.bsky.social on the study of character sounds, we annotated sample texts and discussed what #GenderStereotypes are represented.
In the afternoon, our visiting postdoc @guhrs.bsky.social organized a workshop on "Gender Stereotypes in Romance Novels". #workshop #GenderStereotypes #RomanceNovels #Fiction
February 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
In the afternoon, our visiting postdoc @guhrs.bsky.social organized a workshop on "Gender Stereotypes in Romance Novels". #workshop #GenderStereotypes #RomanceNovels #Fiction
Full house at the LitLab! 🎉 The exchange week continues with exciting research talks plus donuts in our weekly lab meeting!
February 20, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Full house at the LitLab! 🎉 The exchange week continues with exciting research talks plus donuts in our weekly lab meeting!
We're looking forward to more exciting research this week, and to learning how to use #ComputationalMethods to analyze their corpus of #GenreLiterature, which goes beyond #SciFi and also includes #horror, #fantasy, #crime, #adventure, and #romance novels. #CLS #LiteraryComputing #AcademicExchange
February 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
We're looking forward to more exciting research this week, and to learning how to use #ComputationalMethods to analyze their corpus of #GenreLiterature, which goes beyond #SciFi and also includes #horror, #fantasy, #crime, #adventure, and #romance novels. #CLS #LiteraryComputing #AcademicExchange
By exploring the media history of German #DimeNovels, the two researchers from Würzburg explained the development of #ScienceFiction as a successful genre of #PopularFiction among a readership that was particularly driven by readers with a high level of education and an interest in #engineering.
February 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
By exploring the media history of German #DimeNovels, the two researchers from Würzburg explained the development of #ScienceFiction as a successful genre of #PopularFiction among a readership that was particularly driven by readers with a high level of education and an interest in #engineering.