citeAuthors and Editors
Helena Bermúdez Sabel is an open-source developer at JinnTec GmbH, where she is the Head of Digital Editions. She holds a PhD in Medieval Studies from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. She has worked on several projects at the intersection of computing and Philology, in particular with research questions involving historical linguistics and poetry.Toni Bernhart is a professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Stuttgart. His research focuses on aurality and literature, history of science, and folk and popular theatre. He was a member of the interdisciplinary »textklang« project (2021--2024) which investigated the relationship between literary texts and their phonetic realisation in recitation.
Anne-Sophie Bories is the founder and a member of the steering committee of the Plotting Poetry group. She received her PhD from University Paris 3 after being a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley and the University of Leeds. In her thesis, published as Des Chiffres et des mètres, she developed the Queneaumetre database to explore versification in Raymond Queneau’s poems. She joined the University of Basel in 2016 as a postdoc, and later as an assistant professor. In her latest project, Le Rire des vers / Mining the comic verse, focused on humour and verse, Bories and her colleagues developed the JIGS (Joke-like Incongruity Gathering System) and the RIRE corpus, endeavouring to tag joke-like patterns in a poetic corpus.
Nils Couturier served as a postdoctoral researcher in the Mining the Comic Verse project at the University of Basel, where he investigated the relationship between humour and versification in French song from the 19th to the 2019th century. Prior to this, he completed his PhD on the French poet Jules Laforgue at the University of Geneva. He is currently a French instructor at the University of Geneva’s Maison des Langues.
Margit Kiss is a senior research fellow at the Institute for Literary Studies, Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University. She earned a PhD in Hungarian linguistics in 2007 and is currently working on the critical edition of Ferenc Kazinczy’s treatises. Her main research fields are philology, textual scholarship, lexicology, lexicography, and digital humanities.
Nora Ketschik is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS) at the University of Stuttgart. As a member of the interdisciplinary »textklang« project (2021--2024) she worked on mixed methods approaches to computational literary studies combining textual and aural aspects of poetry.
Julia Koch is a PhD student at the Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS) at the University of Stuttgart. She works on text-to-speech synthesis focusing on controlling prosody, speaking style and other paralinguistic features. She was a member of the interdisciplinary »textklang« project (2021--2024) which investigated the relationship between literary texts, especially poetry, and their phonetic realisation in recitation.
Maria-Kristiina Lotman is an associate professor at the Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures, University of Tartu, Estonia. Her research interests include ancient verse, its metre, rhythm and versification systems; typological analysis of quantitative verse; translation of polycoded structures; Estonian theatre translation history. She is the co-editor of the international scholarly journal Studia Metrica et Poetica and has edited several volumes of papers, including Frontiers in Comparative Prosody (Peter Lang) and Semiotics of Verse (a special issue of Sign Systems Studies).
Rebekka Lotman works as an associate professor of world literature at the Institute of Cultural Research, University of Tartu, Estonia. Her main research focus is on comparative poetics, with a particular emphasis on exploring the dynamic development of poetry across diverse cultural landscapes. Her doctoral dissertation focused on Estonian sonnets and analysed approximately 5,000 sonnets written in Estonian. Her research interests also include meter and rhyme, and the mechanisms of meaning-making in contemporary multimedia poetry.
Amélie Macaud is associate professor at the Université Marie et Louis Pasteur. She holds a PhD in American literature, with her dissertation focusing on the making of Charles Bukowski’s work, his publishing, his image, and his reception. She has published articles on the translation of Bukowski’s titles into French and on the reception of the author’s texts and images in print and online. She is currently interested in the reception and circulation of American authors associated with the New Journalism movement, such as Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, and Norman Mailer.
Clara I. Martínez Cantón is a scholar of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at UNED (the National University of Distance Education, Spain). Her research focuses on intermedial relations between poetry and music, with particular attention to the transformations that occur when texts move from one medium to another. She also works on metrics and versification and applies digital humanities methods to the study of poetry, song adaptations and other intermedial objects. Since 2019, she has been leading a research project on the relations between poetry and contemporary Spanish song (PoeMAS).
Susanna Mett is a former research assistant at the Estonian Literary Museum's Estonian Folklore Archives. They are currently studying semiotics, cultural theory, and digital humanities at the University of Tartu.
Chris Mustazza is Co-Director of the PennSound Archive, the world’s largest archive of recordings of poets. His work focuses on the history of literary, audio and experimental digital analysis of poetry audio. His book, The Poetic Record: Collecting Poets’ Voices During the Period of Early Sound Recording (Edinburgh University Press, 2026), is the first history of the poetry audio archive. He teaches in the English department at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also earned his PhD, alongside a Master’s from Penn’s School of Engineering.
Lara Nugues studied literature, education, and philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris. She is currently completing a PhD on vaudeville at the University of Basel, where she lives and teaches French. She previously worked as a research assistant on the University of Basel’s Mining the Comic Verse project and collaborated on the University of Strasbourg’s TheALTres project. She is now part of the European Poetry: Distant Reading project at the Institute of Czech Literature. Her research interests include the work of Marcel Schwob, slang, verse set to music, comic theory, 19th century vaudeville, and Digital Humanities.
Petr Plecháč is head of the Versification Research Group at the Institute of Czech Literature, part of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He received PhDs in Literary Theory and Mathematical Linguistics from Palacký University Olomouc and Charles University in Prague respectively. His main areas of interest are the quantitative analysis of poetic texts and the problems of authorship recognition. He joined Plotting Poetry’s steering committee in 2019.
Vera Polilova is a senior researcher at “Lucian Blaga” University in Sibiu and a leading researcher at Moscow State University. She is co-editor of CPCL (an Information System on Comparative Poetics and Comparative Literature) with Igor Pilshchikov (https://en.cpcl.info/). Her research interests include Russian–Western European cultural relations, comparative metrics, and translation studies. She teaches in the Department of the History of Foreign Literature at the Philology Faculty, Moscow State University, where she also earned her master’s degree and her PhD in Russian and European Literature.
Sandra Richter is a professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Hamburg and Director of the German Literature Archive. She combines intellectual history and literature and works on new methods in literary studies, among them Computational Literary Studies.
Pablo Ruiz Fabo has been Maître de conférences at the Department of Language Technologies and Digital Humanities, University of Strasbourg, since 2018, after earning a PhD from Paris Sciences et Lettres. He works on Natural Language Processing applications to Digital Humanities.
Levente Seláf is professor of Comparative Literature at Université Côte d’Azur. His research areas include medieval and early modern literature, contemporary poetry and intermediality. Between 2019 and 2024 he was led a research project focusing on the computational analysis of 16th century Hungarian poetry at ELTE University (Budapest).
Mari Väina is a leading researcher at the Estonian Literary Museum’s Estonian Folklore Archives. Her main field of study is the Estonian and Finnic runosong tradition with a focus on discovering modes and layers of variation using computational techniques. Her research also covers factors affecting the formation of folklore archives and their use. She has led several research projects on topics related to folklore archives, runosong, and cultural heritage.
Villő Vigyikán is a PhD student at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest. Her research focuses on children’s literature, examining its narrative strategies and intermediality. She participated in the ELTE project on the computational analysis of 16th century Hungarian poetry (2019--2024), contributing to digital humanities approaches to historical poetics.
Yelena Sesselja Helgadóttir is a post-doctoral researcher at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies. She received her PhD in Icelandic Literature from the University of Iceland. Her research is primarily focused on post-medieval Icelandic þulur and related poetic forms, also drawing on the folk poetry of other Nordic countries. Her published works address manuscript transmission, metrics, and composition in different genres of medieval, early modern and some modern Icelandic poetry. Her research interests include comparative literature, folk poetry, and poetry for children.
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Bermúdez Sabel, H., Bernhart, T., Bories, A. S., Couturier, N., Kiss, M., Ketschik, N., Koch, J., Lotman, M. K., Lotman, R., Macaud, A., Martínez Cantón, C., Mett, S., Mustazza, C., Nugues, L., Plecháč, P., Polilova, V., Richter, S., Ruiz Fabo, P., Seláf, L., Väina, M., Vigyikán, V., & Yelena Sesselja Helgadóttir, (2025). Authors and Editors. In M. Väina, M. K. Lotman, A. S. Bories, P. Ruiz Fabo, P. Plecháč, & S. Mett (Eds.), Popular Voices: Computational Analysis of Poetry and Song (pp. 175–178). Tartu: ELM Scholarly Press.Print ISBN
978-9916-742-77-8
Online ISBN
978-9916-742-78-5
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