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This resource from the CLS INFRA project offers an introduction to several research areas and issues that are prominent withinComputational Literary Studies (CLS), including authorship attribution, literary history, literary genre, gender in literature, and canonicity/prestige, as well as to several key methodological concerns that are of importance when performing research in CLS.

Christof Schöch is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Trier, Germany, and Co-Director of the Trier Center for Digital Humanities. He is also chair of the COST Action Distant Reading for European Literary History and president of the Digital Humanities Association for the German-speaking area (DHd). Christof studied Romance languages, English and Psychology in Freiburg and Tours. His master’s thesis was on French contemporary writer François Bon. In 2008, he obtained his PhD in French Literature with a study of ‘La Description double dans le roman des Lumières 1760-1800’ (Kassel / Paris IV-Sorbonne). The thesis has been awarded the Prix Germaine de Stael 2010 and published with Classiques Garnier. From 2004 to 2011, he has been a research assistant at the Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures at Kassel University. From 2011 to 2017, he has been a research associate at the Department for Literary Computing at University of Würzburg, first as a researcher in the DARIAH-DE (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) inititative, then as leader of the Computational Literary Genre Stylistics group. In 2017, he received the offer to join Trier University as Full Professor of Digital Humanities. Christof’s interests in research and teaching are located at the confluence of French literary studies and Digital Humanities. His methodological focus is on Computational Literary Studies (quantitative methods of text analysis, building of digital textual resources, legal aspects). In terms of materials, he is focusing on French Classical and Enlightenment drama as well as on the modern and contemporary French novel. He is also interested in new forms of scholarly publishing and collaboration and pleads for Open Access / Open Science in the Humanities. He is an active member of the Romance Studies and Digital Humanities communities. 
Further information: https://christof-schoech.de/en/

Joanna Byszuk is a research associate and a member of Computational Stylistics Group at the Institute of Polish Language, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków. She has worked on 'Foundations of Computational Stylistics' (2018-2022) and 'CLS Infra' (2022-2025) projects, focusing on cross-lingual computational stylistics and advancing stylometric methodology and its understanding, especially locating method limitations and developing evaluation procedures. She was also engaged in the COST Action Distant Reading, where she was leading Working Group 2 'Methods and Tools' (2020-2022), and in 'Deep Learning in the Computational Stylistics' collaboration with the University of Antwerp. She is interested in discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, especially in connection to 'big data' and multimodal perspective, establishing in her dissertation a methodology of multimodal stylometry for the study of audiovisual works.

Dr. Artjoms Šeļa is a postdoctoral researcher at the Methodology department of the Institute of Polish Language (PAN, Kraków) and is a research fellow at the University of Tartu (Estonia).  He holds a PhD in Russian Literature and uses computational methods to understand historical change in literature and culture.  His main research interests include stylometry, verse studies and cultural evolution.  Sometimes he forays into digital preservation and history of quantitative methods in humanities.

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The CLS INFRA Survey of Methods in Computational Literary Studies

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The CLS INFRA Survey of Methods in Computational Literary Studies