Judith Brottrager

Computational Humanities, Computational Literary Studies, Comparative Literature

Research Monographs, Chapters in Collective Volumes (peer-reviewed)

J. Brottrager (in preparation). Relating the Unread. Modelling Literary History.

J. Brottrager (2026). “Unlocking the Archive: Exploring Literary History through Word Embeddings”. Flows & Frictions: Mixed Methods for AI-Driven Research on Historical Media, ed. by Daniel Brodén and Lina Samuelsson, Gothenburg University Press, 115-135.

Journal & Conference Articles (peer-reviewed)

V. Pöhls, J. Brottrager, T. Weitin (forthcoming). “Character Perception and Story Message in Re-reading Contexts. A Case Study on Zweig’s Schachnovelle with High School Students”. Scientific Study of Literature.

J. Brottrager, J. Barré, Y. Bizzoni, P. Feldkamp (2025). “Patterns of Canon: A Multilingual Network Study”. Anthology of Computers and the Humanities 3, 76-94.

T. Weitin, T. Fabian, A. Glawion, J. Brottrager, Z. Pilz (2024). “Is badfiction processed differently by the human brain? An electrophysical study on reading experience”. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 17.

T. Weitin, J. Bühler, J. Brottrager, A. Glawion, J. Doat (2023). “Autorschaft und literarische Kommunikation in Fanfiction-Portalen: Harry Potter auf Fanfiktion.de”. Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 53, 595-622.

J. Brottrager, J. Doat, J. Häußler, T. Weitin (2023). “Character Shifts in Harry Potter Fanfiction”. Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 53, 623-654.

J. Brottrager, A. Stahl, A. Arslan, U. Brandes, T. Weitin (2022). “Modeling and Predicting Literary Reception: A Data-Rich Approach to Literary Historical Reception”. Journal of Computational Literary Studies 1.

J. Brottrager, A. Stahl, A. Arslan (2021). “Predicting Canonization: Comparing Canonization Scores Based on Text-Extrinsic and -Intrinsic Features”. Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Humanities Research 2021.

Conference Abstracts (peer-reviewed)

J. Brottrager (2026). “Literaturgeschichte modellieren: Ähnlichkeitsstrukturen, Kanonisierungund Zetzwerkperspektiven”. Book of Abstracts - DHd 2026: Nicht nur Text, nicht nur Daten, ed. by S. Schwandt, G. Viehhauser, T. Andrews, & T. Wallnig, 259-260.

C. Schmeller, J. Brottrager (2026). [“Der BookTok-Kanon: Eine netzwerkanalytischeUntersuchung populärer Bücher”(https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18591948). Book of Abstracts - DHd 2026: Nicht nur Text, nicht nur Daten, ed. by S. Schwandt, G. Viehhauser, T. Andrews, & T. Wallnig, 472-474.

J. Brottrager (2025). “From Canon to Score: Quantifying, Measuring, and Comparing Canonisation”. Digital Humanities 2025: Book of Abstracts, ed. by G. del R. Riande, M. Portela,D. Alves, & J. V. Paulino, 178-181.

J. Brottrager (2024). “Echoes Unveiled: Quantifying Literary Historical Scholarship with Word Embeddings”. Digital Humanities 2024: Book of Abstracts, ed. by J. Karajgikar, A. Janco, & J.Otis, 73-75.

J. Brottrager, A. Glawion, K. Herget, T. Weitin (2023). “Networks at Scale. A Metadata-Based Approach to Detecting Links Between Fanfiction-Communities”. Digital Humanities 2023: Book of Abstracts, ed. by A. Baillot, W. Scholger, T. Tasovac, G. Vogeler, E. Raunig, M. Scholger, & E. Steiner, 372-375.

J. Brottrager (2022). “Relating the Unread: A Data-Rich Approach to the Literary Canon and the ‘Great Unread’”. Digital Humanities 2022: Book of Abstracts, ed. by I. Ohmukai, T. Yamada, & Y.Wang, 432-433.

J. Brottrager (2022). “Relating the Unread: Modellierungen der Literaturgeschichte”. DHd2022: Kulturen des digitalen Gedächtnisses. Konferenzabstracts, ed. by M. Geierhos, 244-245.