JCLS | Journal of Computational Literary Studies
The Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS) is an international, diamond 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
Articles
A Stylometric Analysis of Seneca's Disputed Plays. Authorship Verification of Octavia and Hercules Oetaeus
Paschalis Agapitos and Andreas van Cranenburgh
2024-11-14 Volume 3 • Issue 1 • 2024 • 1-32
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
Mapping Cultural Networks in the Global South Book Market
Adriana Rodríguez Alfonso
2024-09-17 Volume 3 • Issue 1 • 2024 • 1-36
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
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
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
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
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