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” (PDF file) (opens in new tab). Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Humanities Research 2021.

Invited talks

J. Brottrager. “Unlocking the Archive: Exploring Literary History through Word Embeddings”. Flows & Friction: Integrating Mixed Methods for Data-rich Research on Historical Media, University of Gothenburg, 23 May 2024.

J. Brottrager. “Modeling Canonization: Computational Approaches to Literary History”. Noon Colloquium, Department of German, UC Berkeley, 19 April 2024.

J. Brottrager. “Von Adaption zu Transformation: Eine quantitative Untersuchung von Charakterverschiebungen in Harry-Potter-Fanfiction”. Workshop Fanfiction & Aneignung, Forschungszentrum für historische Geisteswissenschaften der Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 14 February 2024.

Conference talks

J. Brottrager. “Literaturgeschichte modellieren: Ähnlichkeitsstrukturen, Kanonisierung und Netzwerkperspektiven”. DHd2026, Vienna, 25 February 2026.

C. Schmeller, J. Brottrager. “Der BookTok-Kanon: Eine netzwerkanalytische Untersuchung populärer Bücher”. Poster presentation at DHd2026, Vienna, 26 February 2026.

J. Brottrager. “Networked Resemblance: Networks Models as Comparative Frameworks”. “Comparative Literature Goes Digital” DH2025 Mini-Conference, DH2025, Lisbon, 14 July 2025.

J. Brottrager. “From Canon to Score: Quantifying, Measuring, and Comparing Canonisation”. DH2025, Lisbon, 16 July 2025.

J. Brottrager. “Echoes Unveiled: Quantifying Literary Historical Scholarship with Word Embeddings”. DH2024, Washington, DC, 8 August 2024.

J. Brottrager. “Encoded Literary History: A Word Embedding Approach to Literary History”. Poster presentation at CHR2023, Paris, 6-8 December 2023.

J. Brottrager, A. Glawion, K. Herget, T. Weitin. “Networks at Scale. A Metadata-Based Approach to Detecting Links Between Fanfiction-Communities”. DH2023, Graz, 14 July 2023.

J. Brottrager, A. Stahl, A. Arslan, U. Brandes, T. Weitin. “Modeling and Predicting Literary Reception: A Data-Rich Approach to Literary Historical Reception”. CCLS2022, Darmstadt, 1 June 2022.

J. Brottrager. “Kanonisierungs- und Wertungsscore: Modellierungen literaturwissenschaftlicher Konzepte.” Poster presentation at Germanistentag 2022, Paderborn, 27 September 2022.

J. Brottrager. “Relating the Unread: A Data-Rich Approach to the Literary Canon and the 'Great Unread'” (PDF file) (opens in new tab). DH2022, Tokyo (online), 27 July 2022.

J. Brottrager. “Relating the Unread: Modellierungen der Literaturgeschichte.” DHd2022, Potsdam (online), 9 March 2022.

J. Brottrager, A. Stahl. “Relating the Unread: Network Models in Literary History”. Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the SPP Computational Literary Studies (online), 16-18 March 2021.