Svenja Guhr
@guhrs.bsky.social
Based in SF Bay Area 🌁🌉 Computational Literary Studies Postdoc at @berkeleyischool.bsky.social Founding member of @fortextlab.bsky.social Visiting Scholar @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social Editorial Ass. @jcls-io.bsky.social Website: svenjaguhr.github.io
Is Wuthering Heights secretly a buddy story about a horse and a dog who just tolerate the humans? 🐴🐕 That is the vibe of EcoCor. At #DH2026, Henny Sluyter-Gäthje just presented our open infra for digital ecocriticism, tracking plants & animals in lit. Slides: plu.sh/ecocor
Here’s the paper: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... See you at 2:30 PM in room 101–102! #DH2026
Canons of World Literature Contextualised: Introducing Canon Shelf and Canon Curator
This contribution introduces Canon Shelf, a repository for canon lists from different eras and regions, and Canon Curator, a modular, provenance-aware enrichment pipeline for canon studies.
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📢 Prae-Doc-Stelle (30h, 3 Jahre) am Institut für Germanistik der Uni Wien im FWF-Projekt »Mind the Gap: Theory-driven Operationalization in Computational Literary Studies«. Thema: literaturwiss. Konzepte für computergestützte Verfahren messbar machen – Fallbeispiel dt. Kurzgeschichte nach 1945 […]
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If you want to see some more (mainly non-surprising) findings on canonicity, gender and time period, check out our abstract: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Canonicity, Gender, and Time Period. An Empirical Reconstruction of the German Academic Canon
PDF | We examine the relationship between canonicity, gender, and time period in German-language literature. Our study draws on a dataset of ≈5200... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...
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Demonstrating the canonicity power law distribution with our slides and my hand 🫳 At our talk at #DH2026 with @janaeckardt.bsky.social and @mertenkroencke.bsky.social
Excellent thread! This also reminds me of David Bamman's work on films as data, which, if I understand correctly, you *are* legally allowed to use for research, as long as you own and retain a physical copy, and as long as you don't enjoy watching it : ) www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Measuring diversity in Hollywood through the large-scale computational analysis of film | PNAS
Movies are a massively popular and influential form of media, but their computational study at scale has largely been off-limits to researchers in ...
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I curated some readings for class on "data tensions" and the list felt worth sharing. Come on a tour of datasets, books, the web, and AI with me... We'll start with this piece on the Google Books project: the hopes, dreams, disasters, and aftermath of building a public library on the internet. 1/n
Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria
“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”
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I am absolutely gobsmacked. And trying not to pass out from hyperventilating. Thank you @barackobama.bsky.social — you just made my secret dream for DATA EMPIRE, spoken aloud to NO ONE, come true.
It’s that time of year again: here are some of the books I’ve enjoyed this summer. If you’ve read any good ones, let me know!
Awesome to hear Maciej Eder now present the Zampolii Prize keynote at #DH2026. Slides are here: https://computationalstylistics.github.io/presentations/zampolli/
Computational Stylistics in Action
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GOLEM poster at #DH2026 A manually annotated corpus in 7 languages to develop and evaluate tools for Computational Literary Studies: characters, relationships, dialogue, and events. Stop by at 15:30 KST to know more about it.
Here are the slides for our talk at #DH2026 in Daejeon 🇰🇷 "COMUTE in Action: Usage Scenarios for Comparing Complex Multilingual Text Variants" lehkost.github.io/slides/2026-... Abstract: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #DigitalHumanities @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social
Oftentimes the smartest infrastructure is the simplest one. Today at #DH2026, our lab member Steffi presents a poster on minimal computing in public DH and science communication, with @viktor.im (FU Berlin). Their plea: make it static to make it last – but first ask what's worth keeping. (1/2)
Interested in canon research and world literature? Come to our talk at #DH2026! 📖 »Canons of World Literature Contextualised: Introducing Canon Shelf and Canon Curator« 🗓 Fri July 31, 2–3:30 PM, Room 101-102, S009 We introduce a repository for canon lists & a provenance-aware enrichment pipeline.
Twin talks by our team at #DH2026 in 🇰🇷: 👉 Tue 30 / 9:00-10:30 / Room 105: "Introducing EcoCor: An Open Infrastructure for Digital Ecocriticism" 👉 Fri 31 / 11:00-12:30 / Room 204-205: "A Decade in Drama Research. Data Mining the DraCor Bibliography" cc @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social @dracor.org
What a wonderful lecture by Maciej Eder! Took me back to the first ever lines of R code I wrote back in 2015 under the supervision of the then-student assistant Jasmin Bieber: of course it was a session on #stylo! Here are the slides: computationalstylistics.github.io/presentation...
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Sad to be missing #dh2026 @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social but enjoying it vicariously through your everyone's posts. Keep 'em coming please! And say hello to my NUS colleagues if you see them
What I received from the #DH2026 keynote today is that the humanities should resist turning from: L - P - L' (or P - L - P' in the ideal world I suppose) To: L - L' (L = Learning; P = Practice) Because if all we do is the latter, we will be screwed in the age of AI.
I've made a #DH2026 bsky feed to make it easier to follow the conference. You can pin it: bsky.app/profile/did:...
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The fortext lab will also be in Daejeon next week for Digital Humanities 2026 @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social! We’re delighted to be part of the conference and look forward to inspiring discussions, new perspectives, and exchange with the international DH community. #DH2026 #CLS #DigitalHumanities (1/4)
Anyone participating in or interested in #DH2026 in Daejeon: Please participate actively in the conversations on open social media platforms, like for instance Mastodon, and don't let all that communication energy flow into closed platforms like the conference […] [Original post on fedihum.org]
🚀DH2026 begins tomorrow! Safe travels to everyone joining us in person, and a warm welcome to those participating virtually. ✔️ DH2026 Book of Abstracts Now Available: dh2026.adho.org/dh2026-book-... ✔️ DH2026 Main Conference Program is Available: dh2026.adho.org/dh2026-main-... See you at #DH2026!
Really liking the LEAF writer approach: You can edit using the graphical interface, with helpful pre-selections for tags and attributes; or you can edit the XML-TEI directly; and you can easily validate any time. Many flexible display options. And the entity lookup feature is really neat […]
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Do I know anyone staying at the Lotte City Hotel Daejeon for #DH2026 who, and this is the crucial part, *didn't* book breakfast? (The university travel company seems to have got me two breakfasts each day.)
The University of Graz invites applications for a full professorship in Data Analysis, with a focus on Natural Language Processing! For details, see ▶️ job ad jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/f38f... ▶️ fact sheet cloud.uni-graz.at/s/RA92YSf29z...
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Excited to be heading to #DH2026 in Daejeon! Looking forward to presenting our study on canonicity, gender, and time periods together with @agneshilger.bsky.social and @janaeckardt.bsky.social. See you there!