Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

• Using Riveter to Map Gendered Power Dynamics in Hades/Persephone Fanfiction (forthcoming)
  Solo-authored article in Transformative Works and Cultures, expected publication in the autumn of 2025.
• MythFic Metadata: Gendered Power Dynamics in Fanfiction about Greek Myth (2024)
  Solo-authored article in the Digital Humanities Benelux Journal, Vol. 6: Crossing Borders: Digital Humanities Research Across Languages and Modalities
• Delicious Angst and Tooth-Rotting Fluff: Distant Reading Community Discourses of Emotion in Harry Potter Fanfiction Comments (2023) Solo-authored article in the Journal of Fandom Studies, 11.2-3.
• “This book makes me happy and sad and I love it” A Rule-Based Model for Extracting Reading Impact from English Book Reviews (2022)
  Marijn Koolen, Julia Neugarten, Peter Boot
  Article in the Journal of Computational Literary Studies, 1.1.

Peer-reviewed conference presentations

• How Does Fanfiction Reuse Greek Mythology? Towards a Computational Operationalization of Narrative Repetition (2024)
  Digital Methods for Mythological Research Workshop (DM4Myth) (forthcoming).
• Catching Feelings: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis for Fanfiction Comments about Greek Myth (2024)
  Julia Neugarten, Tess Dejaeghere, Pranaydeep Singh, Amanada Hemmons, Julie Birkholz
  Poster at Computational Humanities Research (CHR2024).
• FicTag Visualizer: A Tool for Fanfiction Tag Analysis and Three Use Cases in Fan Interpretation (2023)
  Julia Neugarten, Christoph Minixhofer, David Slot
  Poster at Computational Humanities Research (CHR2023)
  Abstract and poster available on Zenodo.
• How Can Online Book Reviews Validate Empirical In-depth Fiction Reading Typologies? (2023)
  Marijn Koolen, Olivia da Costa Fialho, Julia Neugarten, Joris Van Zundert, Willem van Hage, Ole Mussmann, Peter Boot
  Presentation at IGEL 2023, Monopoly, Italy. Book of abstracts available.
• MythFic Metadata: Exploring Gendered Violence in Fanfiction about Greek Mythology (2023)
  Julia Neugarten & Roel Smeets
  Short paper at the conference DH Benelux 2023 with data available on Github and in the Radboud Data Repository. The paper is also available on Zenodo.
• What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Topic? (2022)
  Joris J. van Zundert, Marijn Koolen, Julia Neugarten, Peter Boot, Willem van Hage and Ole Mussmann
  Short paper at the conference Computational Humanities Research, published in the Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2022.
• What can Online Book Reviews Reveal about Readers and Platforms? (2022)
  Koolen, M., Fialho, O., Neugarten, J., van Zundert, J., van Hage, W., Mussmann, O., Boot, P.
  Presentation at the conference Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands
• “This book makes me happy and sad and I love it” A Rule-Based Model for Extracting Reading Impact from English Book Reviews (2022)
  Marijn Koolen, Julia Neugarten, Peter Boot
  Presentation at the 1st Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies.
• Defying Expectations: Stylistically Unconventional Anger in a Contemporary Dutch Novel (2022)
  Julia Neugarten, Lisanne M. van Rossum, Joris J. van Zundert
  Long paper at the conference Digital Humanities Benelux 2022.
• Fifty Shades of Twilight: Computationally Comparing Collocations in Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey (2022)
  Barbara Bordalejo, Julia Neugarten, Joris J. van Zundert
  Short presentation at the conference Digital Humanities 2022.
• Reading Impact in Online Book Reviews: Challenges and Prospects (2022)
  Boot, P., Fialho, O., Koolen, M., Neugarten, J., Van Hage, W.R.
  Short presentation, part of a panel at the conference Digital Humanities 2022.

Other solo presentations

• Catching Feelings: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis for Fanfiction about Greek Myth
  Hybrid presentation on the research I did as part of my TNA fellowship with the CLS Infra Project at GhentCdH. Full presentation viewable on Youtube and powerpoint available on Zenodo.
• “I thoroughly enjoyed the pain”: Representation and Affiliation in Fanfiction’s Illness Narratives
  Presentation at the 2023 OSL Day Health Humanities in Practice.
• Topic Modeling for Exploratory Fanfiction Analysis
  Workshop at the 2023 conference of the Fan Studies Network North America. Powerpoint available on Zenodo
• Towards a Digital Infrastructure for Humanities Research? A Case Study in Online Fanfiction Communities (2022) Talk at the Venice Center for Digital and Public Humanities at Ca’Foscari University. Available to view on the CLARIAH website.
• Harry Potter Fanfiction, Emotionality & Toxic Masculinity (2021)
  Conference presentation at the Student Conference on Dissidence, Gender and Sexuality, University of Amsterdam.

Solo-authored articles in graduate journals

• Brittle: Re-thinking Narratives of Disordered Eating through Fanfiction (2021)
  Article in the Frame Journal of Literary Studies, 34.2.
• The Whistle Stop Café and Luke’s Diner: The Village Café as Utopian Space for Women in Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café and Gilmore Girls (2021)
  Article in the Digital Literature Review, 8.1.

Reviews

• Review of Classical Controversies. Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity in the Twenty-First Century (2022) Edited by Kim Beerden and Timo Epping
  Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 136.2.
• Review of Ebony Elizabeth Thomas’ The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games (2021)
  Participations Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, 18.1.

Research Projects

• 2022-2026: PhD-candidate in Gods, Heroes, Myths: Anchoring and Innovating Classical Motifs in Fanfiction, part of Anchoring Innovation.
• 2024: CLS Infra Fellow at the Ghent Center for Digital Humanities in the project Catching Feelings: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis for Comments on Fanfiction about Greek Myth.
• 2020-2022: Intern and later affiliated researcher in Impact and Fiction.
• 2020-2022: Project Manager for the Work Package: Text in CLARIAH.
• 2021: Research Assistant in TRACE: Tracking Radio Archival Collections in Europe.

Valorization

• December 2024: Creative Culture Talk at LUX Nijmegen: Fanfiction: Shared Universes.
• August 2024: Interview about my research with Timo Epping of the Oudheid (Antiquity) Podcast, available on Spotify.
• July 2024: Interview about my research with Aôthen Magazine.
• June 2024: Interview to promote the Transnational Access Fellowship.
• May 2024: Article “Fanfictie en Griekse Mythologie: Een Plurimediale Vertelvorm” in De Moon: Het Tijdschrift voor Oudheidsreceptie in Nederland, 1.1.
• May 2024: Blogpost Ficcability: Television, Fanfiction and Feelings on our department’s blog, Culture Weekly.
• April 2024: Conducted a small survey among colleagues about the process of academic writing: The 2024 Writing Questionnaire, published on our department’s blog, Culture Weekly.
• February 2024: Masterclass about fanfiction for pupils in secondary school who were enrolled in the Track in Leren program offered by VO-Achterhoek.
• January 2024: guest appearance on In a Nutshell, a podcast by Vox where researcher from Radboud University get to introduce their research. You can listen to the episode here: Fantastic Fanfictions and How to Study Them, or on Spotify.
• September 2023: public lecture at Radboud Reflects titled ‘Fanfictie: als fans de regie nemen’ (English ‘Fanfiction: when fans take charge’). View the lecture and panel discussion on Youtube, or listen to it via Apple Podcasts.
• March 2023: blogpost Fanfictie over Griekse Mythologie: Oudheid van en voor Iedereen as part of the blog Wegen naar Rome (English: Roads to Rome) which is updated annually during the Week van de Klassieken (English: Week of the Classics).
• November 2022: my PhD-project was featured as part of the Anchoring Innovation Twitter-takeover of NL_Wetenschap.
• From the start of the project until the autumn of 2022, I managed the social media presence and blog for Impact & Fiction.
• 2022: co-authored the blogpost: Zijn de bots van NBD Biblion een goede ontwikkeling?
  with Karina van Dalen-Oskam, Marijn Koolen and Joris J. van Zundert.

Teaching in the BA Arts & Culture Studies at Radboud University

• Three lectures in Introduction to Literary Theory (B1, spring 2024).
• One lecture on Distant Reading in Research Methods for Cultural Studies (B2, spring 2024).
• Two seminar groups in Data Culture (B2, fall 2023 and again in fall 2024, this time including two lectures).

Teaching in Other Programs and Organizations

• February 2024: invited mini guest lecture on Fanfiction, Health & Illness in the MA course Health and Illness at Radboud University.
• Autumn 2023: Guest lecturer in the career seminar for Literary Studies Lab (course in the rMA Literary Studies) at the University of Amsterdam.
• Spring 2023: guest lecture in the MA course Computational Literary Studies at the University of Antwerp, together with my former colleague Marijn Koolen.
• At the Huygens Institute I co-supervised several students who were conducting internships or writing their thesis.

Awards and Fellowships

• OSL Seed Money Grant (2024) for the conference Fanfiction and the Ancient World.
• Transnational Access Fellowship (2023) in CLS Infra: Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure.
• Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences Education Award (2014) for The Jane Austen Novel.

Academic Service and Professional Memberships

• co-organizer of the conference Fanfiction and the Ancient World (October 2024).
• editor of Culture Weekly, the blog of the department of Arts and Culture Studies at Radboud University. (September 2023 - present)
• member of the editorial board of the Digital Humanities Benelux Journal (summer 2023-present)
• member of OSL, the Dutch Research School for Literary Studies (November 2022-present)
• associated member of OIKOS, the National Research School in Classical Studies in the Netherlands (November 2022-present)
• member of the management team for research group SCARAB: Studying Cultural Infrastructure and Reception Across Borders (November 2022-present)
• conducted peer review for the Journal of Fandom Studies and the Digital Humanities Benelux conference and journal
• Member of the Alumni Advisory Board for the Language and Culture Programs of the University of Amsterdam (2023-present)
• Mentor/Mentee in the Fan and Audience Studies SIG Mentorship Program (2023-present)
• 2022: student-member of the assessment panel that conducted the educational inspection for the research MA in Dutch at Utrecht University. The report of our assessment is available here.

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