We're looking forward to welcoming you in our courses this summer semester! 👋

To the fellow DH teachers: do you teach similar topics? We'd love to exchange experiences! #DH #CLS #TUDarmstadt (8/8)

Finally, in our Projectseminar, students and PhD candidates from different disciplines present their theses-in-progress and receive feedback from the group. A space to sharpen your project, find your focus, and think across disciplinary boundaries. (7/8)

Summer also brings the second half of "Introduction to Literary Studies" covering literary theory, narratology, poetry, and literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, specifically designed for beginner students diving deeper into the field. (6/8)

Interested in analyzing large text collections with computers? "Computational Text Analysis" covers theoretical foundations and key methods, allowing students to develop their own corpus-based research projects and grow through structured peer feedback. (5/8)

"Motifs & Patterns in Climate Fiction" explores German-language cli-fi through close reading, distant reading, LLM-assisted corpus exploration, and CATMA annotations, asking how literature imagines climate crisis, adaptation, and resistance. (4/8)

What actually happens when we measure something? In "Measurement Across the Sciences" we work through Mari, Wilson & Maul's book to trace how observations become data and how different fields construct, standardize, and challenge measurement. (3/8)

In "Manual & Automated Annotation", students combine close reading with digital tools. Working in groups with CATMA and GitMA, they move through corpus building, guideline development, and collaborative annotation, sharing weekly findings along the way. (2/8)

The semester at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social is officially underway – welcome to everyone starting fresh or returning! 🏰 As every semester, we're offering a range of Digital Humanities courses and would love to introduce them to you. 👇 (1/8)

The article, published in our newest and very first special issue, is now freely available at: journal.fortext.org/article/id/4..., together with further articles on Reflected Text Analysis.
Another teaching concept is already in the pipeline, stay tuned: journal.fortext.org/issue/119/in... (3/3)

In their article, @mkschumacher.bsky.social and Nora Ketschik present a one-semester teaching concept for this method based on the approach of reflective text analysis (the CRETA workflow @cretaverein.bsky.social) (2/3)

Are you still looking for an approach to teaching network analysis in higher education? #DigitalHumanities #DH #DHTeaching #DHPedagogy (1/3)

We made a preliminary plan for the next half year, discussed the ongoing projects and upcoming lecture period, brainstormed research ideas, etc. For lunch, we sat in the spring sunshine in the palace moat. (Yes, we work in a palace and we have a moat, but no water 🚣, alligators 🐊 or bears 🐻 😉) (2/2)

Last week we got together in Darmstadt for one of our two big yearly meetings – the other being the lab retreat, which we reported on in September. Like at the retreat, we spent some time reflecting on the past half year and our achievements, as well as our teamwork. (1/2) #DigitalHumanities

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Starting today, the issue's editorial, the methodological article, and a first teaching concept on thematology are available online and free of charge!

More articles are coming soon — stay tuned to stay up to date! (4/4)

All articles demonstrate various ways to integrate the CRETA workflow into teaching, and will be published gradually in the spirit of a rolling issue. (3/4)

This issue features a methodological article on reflective text analysis (i.e., the CRETA workflow ‒ @cretaverein.bsky.social) and seminar concepts for university teaching. (2/4)

The forTEXT journal team is thrilled to announce: The first articles of our first Special Issue on Reflected Text Analysis, edited by guest editors @axelpichler.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy and @nilsreiter.de, are available now at: journal.fortext.org/issues/ (1/4)

 #DH #DHTeaching #DHPedagogy

Many thanks to the reviewers and organizers for the thoughtful feedback! 🙏
We’re currently revising our work and look forward to continuing the conversation in Daejeon. Who else will be at #DH2026? See you there! (3/3)

At #DH2026, we’ll discuss community engagement in digital publishing, why sustainability matters in web development, and present our study "Timing-Based Signals of Plot Keyness in Audiobooks", which explores narrative patterns through timing data. (2/3)

Next stop: Daejeon, South Korea! 🌏
The fortext lab is excited to join #DH2026 with three contributions sharing insights from our current Digital Humanities research. (1/3) #DigitalHumanities #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #DH #CLS

@youyouwu.bsky.social @yuanzheng.bsky.social + more! (5/5)

@richardjeanso.bsky.social @hoytlong.bsky.social @mmvty.bsky.social @ashnotketchup.bsky.social @kirstenostherr.bsky.social @devenparker.bsky.social @emilyrobinson.bsky.social @karinarodriguez.bsky.social @tedunderwood.com @adityavashisht.bsky.social @mattwilkens.bsky.social ... (4/5)

Co-authors (whom we can find on bsky): @ruthahnert.bsky.social @mariaa.bsky.social @emmanouilb.bsky.social @mrsbunz.bsky.social @bcaramiaux.bsky.social @shaunaconcannon.bsky.social @martindisley.bsky.social @jeddobson.bsky.social @yalidu.bsky.social @eaduenez.bsky.social @jwyg.bsky.social ... (3/5)

We argue that generative AI systems should be understood and evaluated as cultural, interpretive technologies — not just predictive models. That shift has implications for how we design benchmarks, involve people in evaluation, and account for context. (2/5)

Our paper (see co-authors in the thread), "Computational hermeneutics: evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology", is now out in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. (1/5)

It was a truly rewarding week in Vienna! Many thanks to the organizers and the #DH community for the inspiring exchanges and insights into ongoing research. As always, we are already looking forward to next year’s DHd! (4/4)

At the poster session, Mari and Steffi presented the editorial workflow of the fortext journal, from Call for Papers to publication. 📝 Great conversations with participants sparked new ideas for future editions and underlined the ongoing importance of a focus on DH teaching. (3/4)

In the session “Epistemology & Interpretation,” @evelyngius.bsky.social made the case for measurement in DH, showing what analysis processes can learn from measurement theory, bridging everything from temperature to hermeneutic interpretation. A manifesto in the making. ✨ (2/4)

This week, part of our team attended #DHd2026 in sunny Vienna — it was a joy to meet the community, exchange ideas, and present some of our current work 👇 (1/4)