The Digital Literary Studies Special Interest Group (SIG-DLS)

brings together researchers from different perspectives to discuss theoretical, methodological and technical issues of doing digital literary studies, share resources, and organize events and initiatives. The SIG-DLS is a platform fostering the study of literature in the context of Digital Humanities (DH) research. Literature is here understood in a broad and descriptive sense, including canonical as well as non-canonical texts across all languages and cultures, and potentially extending to multimodal communication.

The SIG sees itself as providing a core “DH” service – enabling cutting-edge research at the interface of hermeneutic and “computational” communities. The group supports the development of text analysis pipelines, fosters tool and methods critique, encourages the use of community hubs such as GitHub, Zenodo, and others, supports building and sharing of corpora, as well as the development of a shared conceptual and technical vocabulary to ensure that scholars taking distinct disciplinary approaches to digital literary studies can grow from and build on one another’s work.

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