Annual Fanficforum conference in the books & once again amazed at the interesting work done in fanfic studies across academic levels, from BA term paper to PhD thesis. Thank you to everyone who joined & especially to @julianeugarten.bsky.social whose keynote was a great start to our day!

I am very much looking forward to giving the keynote and attending this exciting event 😄

I actually had a discussion about this yesterday. The hate for fanfiction has 4 components: 1) It directly defies capitalism. Capitalism tells us that only things that are profitable are of worth. Most fanfic is free and so people equate free to bad. 🧵 #fanfiction

cool work at #CHR2025 by @julianeugarten.bsky.social on the sentiment trajectories in fanfiction! @comphumresearch.bsky.social

Fandoms have different emotional baselines @julianeugarten.bsky.social #CHR2025

#CHR2025 is off to a pretty great start with some very interesting findings by Federica Bologna et al. anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

Let's go for #CHR2025 :)

Happy International Volunteer Day to all my colleagues -- in translation and beyond -- who help make the Organization for Transformative Works and the Archive of Our Own possible! @transformativeworks.org @archiveofourown.org

What is the relationship between #Twilight and Fifty Shades? What do these texts reveal about the relationship between published fiction and fanfiction when studied computationally? Find out in our new article (with Barbara Bordalejo and @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social) doi.org/10.16995/dsc...

New paper for #CHR2025 Curious how fanfiction genre-tags in 4 different fandoms (Greek Myth, Harry Potter, LOTR and Harry Potter) influence the sentiment of their story arcs? Read on! Thanks to co-authors @pascaleispunk.bsky.social, Mia Jacobsen and Yuri Bizzoni anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

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:

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...

@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! 🦚

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...

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

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

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

Very excited about this! Next session is "Spatial Analysis for Literature, Fiction and Travel Writing" #dh2025

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

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

#DH2025: @julianeugarten.bsky.social & Thijs Meijerink present their work titled “Giddy Gods and Happy Heroes: Detecting #Character-Emotions in #Fanfiction about #GreekMyth with #VectorSpaceModels”.

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

Happy to be in sunny Lisbon and enjoying the pre-conference workshops today #dh2025

#dh2025 is underway with a lovely mini-conference! 📖

#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

Excited for the conference dinner 🤩 #CCLS2025 in the Stuba Communis at Collegium Maius, Krakow

Btw, I created the Bluesky feed "CLS in DH/NLP". It collects posts containing the keywords: #CLS, #CCLS, #JCLS, #CCLS2025, CLS INFRA, Literary Computing, SPP-CLS, Computational Literary Studies, Cultural Analytics, Digital Literary Studies, etc. 👉 Feel free to like and share

Last talk before the lunch break by @julianeugarten.bsky.social: A Powerful Hades is an Unpopular Dude: Dynamics of Power and Agency in Hades/Persephone #Fanfiction (doi.org/10.26083/tup...) #CCLS2025

Looking forward to #CCLS2025 and presenting my paper 'A Powerful Hades is an Unpopular Dude : Dynamics of Power and Agency in Hades/Persephone Fanfiction'

On the last day of my research visit to the Center for Humanities in Arhus, I had the wonderful opportunity to present some of my research. Thanks to all the brilliant people there for their engagement with my work!

A preprint for my article "A Powerful Hades is an Unpopular Dude : Dynamics of Power and Agency in Hades/Persephone Fanfiction" for #CCLS2025 is out now! You can still register for the conference until the 23rd of June, so come join us in Krakow! tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/30143/

Excited to be in sunny Arhus for a research visit 😄

Wat is jouw favoriete Griekse mythe? Cultuurwetenschapper Julia Neugarten onderzoekt aan de Radboud Universiteit hoe 'fan fiction' de Griekse mythologie gebruikt. Zo ontdekt ze welke elementen fans aanspreken. Julia is dit jaar een van de #facesofscience van @NEMOkennislink en de KNAW.

What a great experience to present my research on smells in fanfiction – conducted together with @merpeltje.bsky.social – at #DHBenelux2025. The crowd was awesome, thanks for the lovely questions!

The workshop report "Impressed by Reading" is now available on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1552.... Thanks to the organizers, including @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social, @fpianz.bsky.social and @jberenike.bsky.social It was a pleasure to participate in the workshop and to work on the report!

Liever een filmpje kijken over mijn onderzoek? Dat kan ook! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ootl...

Benieuwd waarom fanfictie zo populair is? Lees het hier: www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/...

My page as part of the @knaw-nl.bsky.social Faces of Science just went live! www.nemokennislink.nl/facesofscien...

"What Fans Think Greek Myth Smells Like: sea, smoke, and flower shampoo", co-authored with @merpeltje.bsky.social, is now on the #DHBenelux2025 Zenodo community. Curious about smells in fanfiction on Greek myth? Come to our presentation @vuamsterdam.bsky.social, June 4 zenodo.org/records/1542...

Abstracts for "The Powers That Scrape: Ethical Considerations in Using Fan-Generated Data in the Digital Humanities" are now live. The panel will be at #DHBenelux2025 (@vuamsterdam.bsky.social) It was great to work with Mona Allaert, Xiaoyan Yang and Divya Mathur on this. I look forward to it!

Happy Weekend! 🥳 Time to relax, have fun, and let your mind wander... 💡Maybe you'll even come up with an idea for a #poster contribution to #CCLS2025. There are still 4 working days left until the submission closes on May 15th. jcls.io/site/ccls202... #CallForPosters #CLS #JCLS #LiteraryComputing

In a gloriously sunny Amsterdam for Creative-Critical Approaches to the Health Humanities, organised by Hannah van Hove (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). Programme here: perdu.nl/en/agenda/52...