“Impressed by Reading” Workshop Report

The Impact and Fiction project, in cooperation with Federico Pianzola (Groningen) and Berenike Herrman (Bielefeld), on February 24-28 2025 held a workshop about the impact of reading. The workshop was held at the premises of the Lorentz Center at Leiden University. The purpose of the workshop was to establish a roadmap for studying the impact… Continue reading “Impressed by Reading” Workshop Report

An Ambitious Project

By Peter Boot For the study of literature, we live in exciting times. This has two reasons: we can computationally analyse the full text of books and we now have access to large amounts of data about how books affect readers. With respect to the computational analysis of book texts, this allows us to reformulate… Continue reading An Ambitious Project