Julia Neugarten

A photograph of a seminar room. Towards the back a presenter is reading from their notes, with a presentation projected behind them. Before them, listeners sit at tables arranged in a U shape, their heads turned away from the camera, towards the presenter.

Annual Fanficforum conference in the books & once again amazed at the interesting work done in fanfic studies across academic levels, from BA term paper to PhD thesis. Thank you to everyone who joined & especially to @julianeugarten.bsky.social whose keynote was a great start to our day!

I am very much looking forward to giving the keynote and attending this exciting event 😄

jpagaduanauthor 8h I have been told often that posting my fanfic on my author social media accounts is unprofessional. But I simply don't give a fuck. Fanfic is a legitimate sub-genre of literature, and I am proud to be a fanfic author. I am not ashamed to say I am a fanfic writer and stake my professional brand on that. Besides, I take my fanfic just as seriously as my original stuff. And if that is off-putting to you? 🤷🏾‍♂️ Then take your business elsewhere, friend. the hate against fanfic is wild to me. For one thing, it's hardly a new invention. What do you think Dante's Inferno is?

I actually had a discussion about this yesterday. The hate for fanfiction has 4 components:

1) It directly defies capitalism. Capitalism tells us that only things that are profitable are of worth. Most fanfic is free and so people equate free to bad. 🧵 #fanfiction

cool work at #CHR2025 by @julianeugarten.bsky.social on the sentiment trajectories in fanfiction! @comphumresearch.bsky.social

Slide showing general fan fiction affect, LoTR is most positive, then Greek myth, Harry Potter, and Percy Jackson

Fandoms have different emotional baselines @julianeugarten.bsky.social #CHR2025

#CHR2025 is off to a pretty great start with some very interesting findings by Federica Bologna et al.

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Let's go for #CHR2025 :)

Happy International Volunteer Day to all my colleagues -- in translation and beyond -- who help make the Organization for Transformative Works and the Archive of Our Own possible!

@transformativeworks.org @archiveofourown.org

Fifty Shades of Twilight: A Computational Approach to Textual Adaptation This paper analyzes the relationship between the Twilight Saga and Fifty Shades trilogy as a case study on the relationship between published fiction and fanfiction. We aim to develop computational me...

What is the relationship between #Twilight and Fifty Shades? What do these texts reveal about the relationship between published fiction and fanfiction when studied computationally? Find out in our new article (with Barbara Bordalejo and @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social)

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New paper for #CHR2025

Curious how fanfiction genre-tags in 4 different fandoms (Greek Myth, Harry Potter, LOTR and Harry Potter) influence the sentiment of their story arcs? Read on!

Thanks to co-authors @pascaleispunk.bsky.social, Mia Jacobsen and Yuri Bizzoni

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This article by @julianeugarten.bsky.social is a fascinating glimpse into fanfiction responding to Ancient Greek mythology as well as a meditation on the suitability of specific digital methods for analysing fanfic, emphasising the importance of close reading in computational literary studies 👀📖

In #TWC46's first New Currents article, @julianeugarten.bsky.social explores the potential of a suite of natural language processing and machine learning tools to examine power and gender dynamics in fan fiction featuring characters from Greek mythology! Read it here:

Come join the @transformativeworks.org as a volunteer, it's so much fun!

It was a pleasure yesterday to present my poster 'Feveruary: Understanding Sickfic' at the Research Day around the topic of ‘Feelings and Flesh: Affect, Health, and the Textual Body’ organized by OSL.

The poster is available here: zenodo.org/records/1746...

@julianeugarten.bsky.social explores #power and #agency in fanfiction retellings of the #Persephone and #Hades myth — using #Riveter (by @mariaa.bsky.social et al. 2023), the study analyzes 482 #fanfiction stories to measure how Persephone and Hades are portrayed.

A Powerful Hades Is an Unpopular Dude. Dynamics of Power and Agency in Hades/Persephone Fanfiction This paper employs Riveter (Antoniak et al. 2023) to analyze the dynamics of power and agency between the characters of Persephone and Hades in 482 short works of fanfiction (369,809 words total) abou...

My paper "A Powerful Hades Is an Unpopular Dude. Dynamics of Power and Agency in Hades/Persephone Fanfiction" jcls.io/article/id/4... is now published with @jcls-io.bsky.social. Thanks so much to the editors and peer reviewers who made this possible. I am proud as a peacock! 🦚

That's a great comment! I have an article under review at @jcls-io.bsky.social right now that examines the role of time -- including the release of the Hades videogame -- in this data.

My lovely friend Naomi Jacobs (@ladylark.bsky.social) and I wanted to explore the repercussions of the new-found prevalence of AI on fans, fandom and fan studies. Some excellent scholars contributed articles to a special section of @journal.transformativeworks.org, which is out now! Enjoy!

Thanks so much, it's a wonderful tool!

Proud to see my article 'Using Riveter to map gendered power dynamics in Hades/Persephone fan fiction' in @journal.transformativeworks.org, my favorite academic journal.

Want to know how fanfiction portrays power dynamics between these two? Read on!

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Hedgehog illustration, woodland and cottage in background

Hedgehog, William MacGillivray, 1828.

Zingend door de Griekse onderwereld In Hadestown komt de Griekse onderwereld van Hades en Persephone in een musical tot leven. Naast het oude verhaal is er ook ruimte voor een modern probleem: klimaatverandering.

Mijn nieuwste blogpost voor de Faces of Science van de @knaw-nl.bsky.social staat nu online!

In dit stukje beschrijf ik hoe de ultra-populaire musical Hadestown, momenteel te zien in Carré, elementen uit de Oudheid gebruikt om hedendaagse maatschappelijke problemen aan te kaarten.

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Amazon review of Pride and Prejudice, left by carlton p morgan on 30 July 2010: "Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses"

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

What a great, engaging, insightful talk by @artjomshl.bsky.social. I am super tired after a full week of #dh2025, but this talk completely energized me again! #cls

For archiving purposes, the slides for our #dh2025 talk presented yesterday are now up on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1603...

😍😍😍

@guhrs.bsky.social has me absolutely dying to read the 'Men in America' series now: one romance novel for each of the 50 states! #dh2025 #CLS @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social

Very excited about this! Next session is "Spatial Analysis for Literature, Fiction and Travel Writing"
#dh2025

Tell me about it, the struggle is real 😓

Yes I was thinking the same thing! Let's talk more about that. Maybe there is a way you could also use Riveter or a similar method?