The Computational Literary Studies Research Group at the University of Bremen invites you to its hybrid lecture series in the winter term 2026/27, which also features talks on Victorian literature and culture (see attached programme). The research group explores and develops digital approaches and theoretical frameworks for the study of literature. Through its events, it aims to bring researchers together – particularly those based in and around Bremen – to pool existing knowledge, encourage methodological innovation and foster lasting collaborations. Whether you are already working on a digital humanities project or simply curious about applying computational methods to literary studies, you are very welcome to join. All sessions will be held in a hybrid format, both on site in Bremen and via Zoom, so you can participate even if you are not based in Bremen. For online participation, please sign up here . For more information, see the attached programme below.
Save the date! The DACH Victorianists Reading Group will resume its meetings in the winter term. Our next session will be on Friday, 23 October 2026, from 2-3 pm , as usual, on Zoom. We will discuss a section from Kathy Alexis Psomiades's Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel, and Sexual Modernity (OUP, 2023). Here's a teaser from the publisher's website: "Marriage is the novel's traditional subject matter. But what happens to the novel when another genre of writing lays claim to the novel's traditional material? Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel, and Sexual Modernity shows how the foundational ideas of the new discipline of anthropology gave late-Victorian novelists and social scientists ways of rethinking heterosexual romance by referring to a new kind of history, one in which marriage systems, sexual behavior, and reproductive practices were temporalized and given historical agency." We're excited that Sophia Jo...