Workshop: Caring for Literature through Digital Humanities

July 17 – 10:30 AM

Registration deadline: July 12th

Link: https://www.letras.up.pt/si/events

The workshop introduces participants to digital humanities and computational literary studies through the case study of caring for literature. Following a brief overview of key computational techniques—from basic word counts to vector semantics and generative AI—participants will gain hands-on experience in applying these methods to develop different formal models of the phenomenon. Working with a large corpus of book reviews, they will then assess the efficacy of these models, exploring both their potential and their limitations. The workshop combines practical activities with theoretical and methodological discussion, while maintaining a critical perspective on the tools and approaches most commonly used in the digital humanities.

BIO note:
Simone Rebora is an associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Verona. As a postdoc, he worked at the Universities of Mainz, Bielefeld, Göttingen, and Basel. His main research interests are literary theory, reader response studies, and computational literary studies. His essays have been published in journals such as “PLOS ONE”, “Digital Scholarship in the Humanities”, and “Modern Language Notes”. In 2026, he will publish the monograph Computational Literary Studies. Theory and Methods (Routledge). He is currently chair of the “Digital Literary Studies” Special Interest Group (SIG-DLS) of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) and chairperson of the “Digital Comparative Literature” Research Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA DCL).