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.
Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2026
Articles
Interpretation, Argument, Evaluation. A Workflow for Assessing LLM-Generated Interpretations of Poetry
- Axel Pichler
- Martin Endres
- Nils Reiter
Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2026 • 29 pages
Encoding Imagism? Measuring Literary Imageability, Visuality and Concreteness via Multimodal Word Embeddings
- Yuri Bizzoni
- Pascale Feldkamp
- Kristoffer L. Nielbo
Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2026 • 28 pages
Rhymefindr. An Historical Poetics Method for Identifying Rhymes in Nineteenth-Century English Poetry
- Natalie M. Houston
Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2026 • 17 pages
A Computational Analysis of Character Archetypes in the Works of Calderón de la Barca
- Allison Keith
- Antonio Rojas Castro
- Kerstin Jung
- Hanno Ehrlicher
- Sebastian Padó
Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2026 • 20 pages