Computational Literary Studies UK Training School - Second Edition

Join us in person for the Computational Literary Studies UK Training School to boost your digital lit skills!

Join us for the second edition of the University of Wolverhampton's Computational Literary Studies UK Training School!

Get ready for an exciting, free, in-person event where you'll dive into the world of Computational Literary Studies (CLS). CLS uses innovative methods and tools that offer different kinds of analyses by investigating large corpora. Scholars use text analysis software and programming languages to analyse hundreds of texts, which can be used to track character knowledge; illuminate dramatic development of plays; and help reveal the author identity of previously anonymous texts.

Whether you're a curious literary scholar or a student looking to sharpen your skills, this training school has got you covered with hands-on sessions and cool insights. We are open to all researchers at all stages of their career. Meet fellow enthusiasts, explore cutting-edge techniques, and boost your literary analysis game. Don’t miss out on this excellent opportunity to learn and connect face-to-face with key pioneers in the CLS field!

The Training School is intended for those with a keen interest in boosting their skills. You do not need to know Python programming but openness towards using new technologies for research is a must.

Important note: as the Digital Humanities Reseach Group at the Univeristy of Wolverhampton is passionate about countering inequality, we are offering this training school for free. Additionally, we have created four bursaries that cover travel and accommmodation to support students during the cost of living crisis. To apply, please write to Prof. Bas Groes at s.groes@wlv.ac.uk

Trainers include:

• Professor Karina van Dalen-Oskam (Huygens, Netherlands)
• Dr Lamyk Bekius (University of Antwerp, Belgium) – Track Changes: using keystroke logging for literary writing
• Professor Maciej Eder (Institute of Polish Language, Polish Academy of Science, Poland, and University of Tartu, Estonia; co-author the 'R' package for Stylo)
• Dr Martin Wynne (Senior Researcher Corpus Linguistics and National Coordinator Clarin UK, Oxford University, UK)
• Megan Powell, PhD student in English Literature at the University of Wolverhampton
• Professor Bas Groes (English Literature, Wolverhampton, UK.

Provisional schedule

Day 1 ( 6 February): Introduction to Computational Literary Studies

10:00 Thinking computationally

10:30 Data/file formats & creating corpora

11:00 Introduction to AntConc – Martin

12:30 Lunch and Keynote by Karina van Dalen-Oskam

14:00 Introduction to Stylometry

16:00 Combining AntConc and Stylometry + Case Study: Novel Perceptions

17:00 Ends

19:00 Dinner Made in Thai

Day 2 (7 February) : Advanced CLS

10:00 Introduction to Keystroke-logging and xml

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Advanced Stylometry: rolling stylometry - Maciej Eder

16:00 Further experimenting and incubator session

17:00 Drinks reception

18:00 Ends

This event is organised by the Digital Humanities Research Group at the University of Wolverhampton. Co-organisers include the CLS INFRA proejct; Huygens Institute in the Netherlands; Oxford University and Antwerp Univeristy, Belgium. To find out more about the Humanties research at Wolverhampton, go to the Centre for Transnational and Transcultural Studies.

For further information, please write to Prof. Bas Groes at s.groes@wlv.ac.uk.