Computational Literary Studies
The Computational Literary Studies (CLS) research group at the University of Bremen explores and develops digital humanities approaches and theories for the study of literature, both contemporary and historical. Through regular meetings in-person and online meetings and lectures we seek to bundle existing knowledge, support methodological development and strengthen the collaboration researchers in digital literary studies within the broader field of digital humanities.
The research group and its activities are open to anyone interested in applying computational methods to the study of literature from beginners to experts.
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The research group is being funded by a Seed Grant from the Data Science Center at the University of Bremen.
Working Group
The working group meets regularly to discuss readings about methods and theories in computational literary studies.
We will next meet via Zoom on the following dates:
26. August, 13.00-15.00
23. September, 13.00-15.00
If you would like to be involved, please drop us an email.
Lecture Series
We are currently in the process of planning a lecture series for the winter term. More information to be published soon.
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Digital Shores: An Interactive Atlas of Beach Narratives
Digital Shores was created at the University of Bern, Switzerland, as a part of the research project “The Beach in the Long Twentieth Century” (PI Virginia Richter), which was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and co-led by Ursula Kluwick. The atlas visualises the function of the beach in (mainly) anglophone literatures, published between 1890 and 2023. See https://dasch.swiss/projects/085D for more details.
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In her current project, Julia Ditter explores the imaginative and affective roots of our attachment to fossil energy in nineteenth-century Britain, specifically in the energy imaginaries created by its periodical press. She examines how affective attachments to fossil energy took shape across social strata through the cultural imaginaries created and circulated by the press. The project develops integrative digital humanities methodologies for topic-specific research and aims at establishing an open-access corpus database on energy in the periodical press.
Afroeurope and Cyberspace
Julia Borst's ERC project, AFROEUROPECYBERSPACE, explores how African/Afrodescendant people in Romance-speaking Europe go online to gain visibility, raise their voices and re-appropriate the narrative of who they are, what groups and contexts they relate to and why. It conducts a qualitative analysis of representative case studies using a semiotic approach that unravels the texts and textures of diverse digital platforms to decode poetics of digital writing and to understand their impact in imagining Afrodiasporic self-positionings. Visit the project website to find out more.
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