Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

• The Style of Scorn: Computationally Operationalizing the Relationship between Anger and Complexity in ‘Ik Ga Leven’ by Lale Gül
  Julia Neugarten, Lisanne L. van Rossum, Joris J. van Zundert (forthcoming 2026).
  Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.

• Fifty Shades of Twilight: A Computational Approach to Textual Adaptation
  Julia Neugarten, Barbara Bordalejo, Joris J. van Zundert (2025).
  Digital Studies / Le champ numérique, 15.1.
  URL · DOI · PDF

• Using Riveter to Map Gendered Power Dynamics in Hades/Persephone Fanfiction
  Solo-authored article (2025).
  Transformative Works and Cultures, vol. 46.
  URL · DOI · Code

• A Powerful Hades is an Unpopular Dude: Dynamics of Power and Agency in Hades/Persephone Fanfiction
  Solo-authored article (2025).
  Journal of Computational Literary Studies, 4.1.
  URL · DOI · PDF · Code

• MythFic Metadata: Gendered Power Dynamics in Fanfiction about Greek Myth
  Solo-authored article (2024).
  Digital Humanities Benelux Journal, vol. 6.
  PDF

• Delicious Angst and Tooth-Rotting Fluff: Distant Reading Community Discourses of Emotion in Harry Potter Fanfiction Comments
  Solo-authored article (2023).
  Journal of Fandom Studies, 11.2-3
  URL · DOI

• “This book makes me happy and sad and I love it” A Rule-Based Model for Extracting Reading Impact from English Book Reviews
  Marijn Koolen, Julia Neugarten, Peter Boot (2022).
  Journal of Computational Literary Studies, 1.1
  URL · DOI · PDF

Peer-reviewed Book Chapters

• Computational Analysis: Fanfiction as Literary Reception
  In Research Methods in Literary Reception Studies, edited by Jeroen Dera, Anne Oerlemans and Frederik van Dam, Leuven University Press (forthcoming 2026).
  DOI

Peer-reviewed Conference Papers and Presentations

• Problems and Prospects of Computational Fanfiction Research
  Mia Jacobsen, Julia Neugarten, Pascale Feldkamp, Yuri Bizzoni and Ross Kristensen-McLachlan (forthcoming 2026).
  Full-day workshop at DH Benelux 2026.

• Blood and gore: The prevalence of violence in fanfiction across gender categories and engagement
  Mia Jacobsen, Julia Neugarten, Yuri Bizzoni (forthcoming 2026).
  Short paper at DH Benelux 2026.

• Happily Ever After: Comparing Sentiment Arcs in Emotionally-Inflected Fanfiction Genres Across Fandoms
  Julia Neugarten, Mia Jacobsen, Pascale Feldkamp and Yuri Bizzoni (2025).
  Long paper at Computational Humanities Research 2025.
  URL · DOI · PDF · Code · Data

• A Powerful Hades is an Unpopular Dude: Dynamics of Power and Agency in Hades/Persephone Fanfiction
  Solo-authored (2025).
  Conference Paper, Conference of Computational Literary Studies 2025.
  URL · DOI · PDF · Code

• Giddy Gods and Happy Heroes: Detecting Character-Emotions in Fanfiction about Greek Myth with Vector Space Models
  Julia Neugarten and Thijs Meijerink (2025).
  Long paper, Digital Humanities 2025.
  URL · Code

• What Fans Think Greek Myth Smells Like: sea, smoke, and flower shampoo
  Julia Neugarten and Marieke van Erp (2025).
  Oral presentation at Digital Humanities Benelux 2025.
  URL · Code

• The Powers That Scrape: Ethical Considerations in Using Fan-Generated Data in the Digital Humanities
  Julia Neugarten, Mona Allaert, Xiaoyan Yang and Divya Mathur (2025).
  Panel discussion at Digital Humanities Benelux 2025.
  [URL]((https://zenodo.org/records/15373875) · DOI

• How Does Fanfiction Reuse Greek Mythology? Towards a Computational Operationalization of Narrative Repetition
  Solo-authored (2024).
  Conference paper at the Digital Methods for Mythological Research Workshop (DM4Myth).
  Slides

• Catching Feelings: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis for Fanfiction Comments about Greek Myth
  Julia Neugarten, Tess Dejaeghere, Pranaydeep Singh, Amanada Hemmons, Julie Birkholz (2024).
  Poster at Computational Humanities Research 2024.
  PDF · Poster · Code

• FicTag Visualizer: A Tool for Fanfiction Tag Analysis and Three Use Cases in Fan Interpretation
  Julia Neugarten, Christoph Minixhofer, David Slot (2023).
  Poster at Computational Humanities Research 2023.
  Poster · DOI

• How Can Online Book Reviews Validate Empirical In-depth Fiction Reading Typologies?
  Marijn Koolen, Olivia da Costa Fialho, Julia Neugarten, Joris Van Zundert, Willem van Hage, Ole Mussmann, Peter Boot (2023).
  Presentation, International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL).
  Book of abstracts

• MythFic Metadata: Exploring Gendered Violence in Fanfiction about Greek Mythology
  Julia Neugarten & Roel Smeets (2023).
  Short paper, Digital Humanities Benelux 2023.
  PDF · Code · Data · Zenodo · DOI

• What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Topic?
  Joris J. van Zundert, Marijn Koolen, Julia Neugarten, Peter Boot, Willem van Hage, Ole Mussmann (2022).
  Short paper at Computational Humanities Research 2022
  PDF

• What Can Online Book Reviews Reveal about Readers and Platforms?
  Marijn Koolen, Olivia Fialho, Julia Neugarten, Joris J. van Zundert, Willem van Hage, Ole Mussmann, Peter Boot (2022).
  Presentation at Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN).

• “This book makes me happy and sad and I love it” A Rule-Based Model for Extracting Reading Impact from English Book Reviews
  Marijn Koolen, Julia Neugarten, Peter Boot (2022).
  Presentation at the Conference of Computational Literary Studies (CCLS2022).

• Defying Expectations: Stylistically Unconventional Anger in a Contemporary Dutch Novel
  Julia Neugarten, Lisanne M. van Rossum, Joris J. van Zundert (2022)
  Long paper at Digital Humanities Benelux 2022.
  Abstract & Slides · DOI

• Fifty Shades of Twilight: Computationally Comparing Collocations in Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey
  Barbara Bordalejo, Julia Neugarten, Joris J. van Zundert (2022).
  Short presentation at Digital Humanities 2022.
  Book of abstracts

• Reading Impact in Online Book Reviews: Challenges and Prospects
  Peter Boot, Olivia Fialho, Marijn Koolen, Julia Neugarten, Willem van Hage (2022).
  Short presentation, part of a panel at Digital Humanities 2022.
  Book of abstracts

Non Peer-reviewed Publications

• Fanfictie in de Klas (Fanfiction in the Classroom)
  Solo-authored article (forthcoming 2026).
  Levende Talen Magazine.

• Interview with the Fan: A dialogue between myself as a fan and myself as a researcher
  Solo-authored critical-creative article (2026).
  Radical Creativities, vol. 2
  URL

• Fanfictie: Van Wie Is Jouw Verhaal? (Fanfiction: Who Owns Your Story?)
  Solo-authored article (2025).
  Vooys: Tijdschrift voor Letteren 43.3

• “Impressed by Reading” Workshop Report
  Co-authored with 24 workshop participants (I am the 8th author) (2025).
  Zenodo

• Fanfictie en Griekse Mythologie: Een Plurimediale Vertelvorm (Fanfiction & Greek Myth: A Plurimedial Storytelling Mode)
  Solo-authored article (2024).
  De Moon: Tijdschrift over Oudheidsreceptie in Nederland, 1.1

• Brittle: Re-thinking Narratives of Disordered Eating through Fanfiction
  Solo-authored article in a graduate journal (2021).
  Frame Journal of Literary Studies, 34.2.
  URL

• 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
  Solo-authored article in a graduate journal (2021).
  Digital Literature Review, 8.1.
  DOI · PDF

Non Peer-reviewed Presentations

• Climate Alternate Universe: Ecocriticism and Fanfiction about Greek Myth
  Invited online keynote at the Fanficforum Conference, Goethe University, DE (2026).

• Feveruary: Understanding SickFic
  Poster at the OSL Research Day, Utrecht University, NL (2025).
  Poster

• Fanfiction about Greek Myth: A Computational Exploration
  Presentation at the CORE Collective, Aarhus University, DK (2025).

• The Impact of Fanfiction
  Presentation at the Lorentz Workshop Impressed by Reading: Measuring the Impact, Lorentz Center, NL (2025).

• Catching Feelings: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis for Fanfiction about Greek Myth
  Hybrid presentation on my TNA fellowship with the CLS Infra Project at the Ghent Center for Digital Humanties, BE (2024).
  Youtube Recording · Slides · Fellowship Report

• “I thoroughly enjoyed the pain”: Representation and Affiliation in Fanfiction’s Illness Narratives
  Presentation at the OSL Day Health Humanities in Practice, Utrecht University, NL (2023).
  Abstract & Slides · DOI.

• Topic Modeling for Exploratory Fanfiction Analysis
  Workshop at the online Fan Studies Network North America conference (2023).
  Slides · Data

• Towards a Digital Infrastructure for Humanities Research? A Case Study in Online Fanfiction Communities
  Talk at the Venice Center for Digital and Public Humanities at Ca’Foscari University, IT (2022).

• Harry Potter Fanfiction, Emotionality & Toxic Masculinity
  Conference presentation at the Student Conference on Dissidence, Gender and Sexuality, University of Amsterdam, NL (2021).

Awards and Fellowships

• Tiele Fellowship (2026)
  Announcement
• OIKOS Travel Award (2025)
• OSL Valorization Award, runner-up (2025)
  Announcement
• Christine Mohrmann Stipend (2025)
  Awarded by Radboud University
  Announcement
• Stipend for a Short-Term Scientific Mission (2025)
  Awarded by the Special Interest Group Digital Literary Studies
  Report
• OSL Seed Money Grant (2024)
  Awarded for organizing the conference Fanfiction and the Ancient World
• Transnational Access Fellowship (2023)
  In the project CLS Infra: Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure
  Fellowship Report · Project Page
• Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences Education Award (2014)
  Awarded for the project The Jane Austen Novel
  Announcement

Reviews

• Review of Identity, Community, and Sexuality in Slash Fan Fiction: Pocket Publics by Anne Kustritz (2025)
  Journal of Fandom Studies, 13.1 (2025).
  DOI · URL
• Review of Classical Controversies. Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Kim Beerden and Timo Epping
  Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 136.2 (2023).
  URL · DOI · PDF
• Review of Ebony Elizabeth Thomas’ The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games
  Participations Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, 18.1 (2021).
  PDF

Research Projects

• Gandalf Verslaat Grunberg: Waarom Jongeren Liever Fanfictie Lezen
  Funded through the Tiele Fellowship (2026).
• Anchoring and Innovating Greek Myth in Fanfiction
  PhD, funded through Anchoring Innovation (2022-2026).
• Catching Feelings: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis for Comments on Fanfiction about Greek Myth
  Funded through a CLS Infra Transnational Access Fellowship at the Ghent Center for Digital Humanities (2024).
  Fellowship Report · Project Page
• Impact and Fiction
  Intern and later affiliated researcher (2020-2022).
• CLARIAH
  Project Manager for the Work Package: Text (2020-2022).
• TRACE: Tracking Radio Archival Collections in Europe
  Research Assistant (2021).

Valorization

• Fanfictie Schrijven over de Oudheid (Writing Fanfiction about Antiquity)
  Workshop at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (2026).
  URL
• Oudheid op het Internet (Antiquity Online).
  Invited lecture for the Nederlands Klassiek Verbond (Dutch Classical Association) (2026).
• Reading with Computers
  Blogpost on the blog for the Special Interest Group Digital Literary Studies (2025).
  URL
• Faces of Science
  Science communication for the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (2025-present).
  Profile
• Fanfiction: Shared Universes
  Blogpost on Culture Weekly together with Rūta Tidriķe (2025).
  URL
• Fanfictie: wie, wat, waar, waarom? (Fanfiction: Who, What, Where, Why?)
  Masterclass about fanfiction for secondary education (2025).
• Fanfiction: Shared Universes
  Creative Culture Talk at LUX Nijmegen (2024).
• Fandom, Feit en Fictie (Fandom, Fact and Fiction)
  Lesson Plan for secondary education (2024).
  URL
• Podcast Interview
  Oudheid (Antiquity) podcast with Timo Epping (2024).
  Spotify
• Magazine Interview
  Aôthen Magazine (2024).
  URL
• Interview to promote the Transnational Access Fellowship
  (2024).
  Youtube
• Ficcability: Television, Fanfiction and Feelings
  Blogpost on Culture Weekly (2024).
  URL
• The 2024 Writing Questionnaire
  Blogpost on Culture Weekly (2024).
  URL
• Fanfictie: wie, wat, waar, waarom? (Fanfiction: Who, What, Where, Why?)
  Masterclass about fanfiction for secondary school students in the Track in Leren program (2024).
• Fantastic Fanfictions and How to Study Them: Podcast Interview
  In A Nutshell podcast by Vox (2024).
  URL · Spotify
• Fanfictie: als fans de regie nemen (Fanfiction: when fans take charge)
  Radboud Reflects lecture (2023).
  Youtube · Apple Podcasts
• Fanfictie over Griekse Mythologie: Oudheid van en voor Iedereen (Fanfiction about Greek Myth: Antiquity for Everyone)
  Blogpost on Wegen naar Rome (Roads to Rome) (2023).
  URL
• Twitter Takeover
  Part of the Anchoring Innovation Twitter-takeover on NL_Wetenschap (2022).
  URL
• Impact & Fiction
  Project blogposts and editing (2021-2022).
  URL
• Zijn de bots van NBD Biblion een goede ontwikkeling? (Are NBD Biblion’s Bots a Good Development?)
  Blogpost co-authored with Karina van Dalen-Oskam, Marijn Koolen and Joris J. van Zundert (2022).
  URL

Teaching in the BA Arts & Culture Studies at Radboud University

• Introduction to Literary Theory
  Three lectures, B1, (spring 2024).
• Research Methods for Cultural Studies
  One lecture on Distant Reading, B2, (spring 2024, 2025 and 2026).
• Data Culture
  Two seminar groups, B2, (fall 2023, 2024), second time including two lectures on Truth & Falsehood and Data Bias.

Teaching in Other Programs and Organizations

• Fan Studies Methodologies
  Invited online lecture in the BA courses Animation and 3D Animation at the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design + Technology (2026).
• Fanfiction, Health & Illness
  Invited mini-lecture in the MA course Health and Illness at Radboud University (2024).
• Career Seminar
  Guest lecture in the course Literary Studies Lab (in the rMA Literary Studies) at the University of Amsterdam (2023, 2025).
• Impact & Fiction: Computationally operationalizing the impact of books through online reviews
  Invited guest lecture in the MA course Computational Literary Studies at the University of Antwerp, together with Marijn Koolen (2023).
• Co-supervision of interships and theses
  Carried out at the Huygens Institute (2021-2022).

Academic Service

• Fanfiction and the Ancient World Conference
  Organized together with Amanda Potter (2024).
  CfP · URL
• Culture Weekly
  Editor of the blog of the department of Arts and Culture Studies at Radboud University (2023 - present).
  URL
• Mentor/Mentee in the Fan and Audience Studies SIG Mentorship Program
  (2023-2024).

Peer review conducted for the Journal of Fandom Studies, Transformative Works and Cultures, New Media & Society, M/C Journal, Radical Creativities, the Digital Humanities Benelux conference and journal, and the conferences Computational Humanities Research and Digital Humanities.

Professional Memberships

• Editorial board of the Digital Humanities Benelux Journal (2023-present).
  Co-edited volumes: vol. 5 · vol. 6 · vol. 7
• European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) (2025-present).
• Alumni Advisory Board for the Language and Culture Programs of the University of Amsterdam (2023-present).
• OSL: Dutch Research School for Literary Studies (2022-present).
  Profile
• OIKOS: National Research School in Classical Studies in the Netherlands (2022-present).
• Management team for research group SCARAB: Studying Cultural Infrastructure and Reception Across Borders (2022-2024).
• Student-member of the assessment panel that conducted the educational inspection for the research MA in Dutch at Utrecht University (2022).
  Assessment Report

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