Publications
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Peer-reviewed contributions to edited collections
- Computational Analysis: Fanfiction as Literary Reception in Research Methodologies in Literary Reception Studies, forthcoming with John Benjamins.
Peer-reviewed conference presentations
- A Powerful Hades is an Unpopular Dude: Dynamics of Power and Agency in Hades/Persephone Fanfiction
Presentation at the 4th annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies in Krakow
- Giddy Gods and Happy Heroes: Detecting Character-Emotions in Fanfiction about Greek Myth with Vector Space Models (2025)
Julia Neugarten and Thijs Meijerink
Long paper, DH2025, Lisbon
- What Fans Think Greek Myth Smells Like: sea, smoke, and flower shampoo (2025)
Julia Neugarten and Marieke van Erp
Oral presentation at the conference DH Benelux 2025, Amsterdam
- The Powers That Scrape: Ethical Considerations in Using Fan-Generated Data in the Digital Humanities
Julia Neugarten, Mona Allaert, Xiaoyan Yang and Divya Mathur
Panel discussion at the conference DH Benelux 2025, Amsterdam
- How Does Fanfiction Reuse Greek Mythology? Towards a Computational Operationalization of Narrative Repetition (2024)
Presentation at the Digital Methods for Mythological Research Workshop (DM4Myth)
- 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
Other Publications
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- “Impressed by Reading” Workshop Report (2025)
Workshop report co-authored with 24 workshop participants, available on Zenodo
- Brittle: Re-thinking Narratives of Disordered Eating through Fanfiction (2021)
Article in the Frame Journal of Literary Studies, 34.2, solo-authored article in graduate journal
- 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, solo-authored article in graduate journal
Reviews
Research Projects
Valorization
- Spring 2025 - Autumn 2026: Faces of Science
- April 2025: Blogpost Fanfiction: Shared Universes on Culture Weekly together with Rūta Tidriķe
- January 2025: Masterclass about fanfiction for secondary education: Fanfictie: wie, wat, waar, waarom?
- December 2024: Creative Culture Talk at LUX Nijmegen: Fanfiction: Shared Universes
- November 2024: Lesson Plan Fandom, Facts and Fiction, for secondary education, available on the Radboud University website
- 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
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
Academic Service and Professional Memberships
- member of the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) (2025)
- 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, the Digital Humanities Benelux conference and journal, and the journal New Media & Society
- 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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