JCLS | Journal of Computational Literary Studies

The Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS) is an international, open access, peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to all aspects of computational approaches to Literary Studies. JCLS responds to the increasing differentiation of subfields within the Digital Humanities, an ongoing process in which Computational Literary Studies has already gained considerable maturity and visibility.
 
JCLS provides a publishing platform for work on the development, the application, and the critique of computational approaches to Literary Studies. The journal seeks to expand the spectrum of computational methods for the analysis of literary texts and their (cultural, social, historical, performative) contexts with innovative methods appropriate to the subject. It provides a forum to address issues such as building literary corpora, identifying peculiarities of literary texts, domain adaptation of methods, operationalization of concepts, annotation of texts, evaluation of measures, interpretability and transparency of results, and reproducibility of research. JCLS also acknowledges the debatability of the core concepts of Computational Literary Studies, computationality and literarity, and encourages submissions addressing these from historical, cultural and other perspectives.

JCLS is open for submissions for the journal-only track at any time. Please also note our current Call for Papers for the CCLS2025, which will take place on July 3-4, 2025 in Krakow. The submission deadline for the CCLS2025 Call is January 30, 2025.

Volume 3 • Issue 1 • 2024

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Measuring Literary Quality. Proxies and Perspectives

Measuring Literary Quality. Proxies and Perspectives

Pascale Feldkamp, Yuri Bizzoni, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen and Kristoffer L. Nielbo

2024-10-24 Volume 3 • Issue 1 • 2024

From Review to Genre to Novel and Back. An Attempt to Relate Reader Impact to Phenomena of Novel Text 

From Review to Genre to Novel and Back. An Attempt to Relate Reader Impact to Phenomena of Novel Text 

Marijn Koolen, Joris van Zundert, Eva Viviani, Carsten Schnober, Willem van Hage and Katja Tereshko

2024-10-17 Volume 3 • Issue 1 • 2024 • 1-32

Visualization as Defamiliarization. Mixed Methods Approaches to Historical Book Reviews

Visualization as Defamiliarization. Mixed Methods Approaches to Historical Book Reviews

Daniel Brodén, Jonas Ingvarsson, Lina Samuelsson and Victor Wåhlstrand Skärström

2024-10-10 Volume 3 • Issue 1 • 2024 • 1-26

Neither Telling nor Describing. Reflective Passages and Perceived Reflectiveness 1700–1945

Neither Telling nor Describing. Reflective Passages and Perceived Reflectiveness 1700–1945

Benjamin Gittel, Florian Barth, Tillmann Dönicke, Luisa Gödeke, Thorben Schomacker, Hanna Varachkina, Anna Mareike Weimer, Anke Holler and Caroline Sporleder

2024-10-03 Volume 3 • Issue 1 • 2024 • 1-24

Small Worlds: Measuring the Mobility of Characters in English-Language Fiction

Small Worlds: Measuring the Mobility of Characters in English-Language Fiction

Matthew Wilkens, Elizabeth F. Evans, Sandeep Soni, David Bamman and Andrew Piper

2024-09-26 Volume 3 • Issue 1 • 2024 • 1-16

The Anxiety of Prestige in Stephen King’s Stylistics

The Anxiety of Prestige in Stephen King’s Stylistics

Erik Ketzan and Martin Paul Eve

2024-09-26 Volume 3 • Issue 1 • 2024 • 1-20

Mapping Cultural Networks in the Global South Book Market

Mapping Cultural Networks in the Global South Book Market

Adriana Rodríguez Alfonso

2024-09-17 Volume 3 • Issue 1 • 2024 • 1-36

Computational Approaches to Opera Libretti

Computational Approaches to Opera Libretti

Luca Giovannini and Daniil Skorinkin

2024-07-15 Volume 3 • Issue 1 • 2024 • 1–23

The Schemer Unmasked. Sketching a Digital Profile of the Scheming Slave in Roman Comedy

The Schemer Unmasked. Sketching a Digital Profile of the Scheming Slave in Roman Comedy

Julia Jennifer Beine

2024-05-27 Volume 3 • Issue 1 • 2024 • 1–29