ICLA DCL

The Research Committee on Digital Comparative Literature (DCL) within the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) organizes panels and workshops, publishes papers and special issues to explore the following topics:

  • Distant reading techniques and computational literary studies
  • Multilingual literary archives and the digitization of texts in different languages and writing systems
  • The transformation of the book and reading in the post-digital age; born-digital literature
  • Geographic information systems, data visualization and comparative literary studies
  • Machine translation, artificial intelligence, language models and comparative literature

A full description can be found here.

Leadership team

  • Chairperson: Prof. Simone Rebora, University of Verona (IT)
  • Co-chair: Prof. Youngmin Kim, Dongguk University (KR) / Linnaeus University (SE)
  • Secretary: Prof. Yina Cao, Sichuan University (CN)

Joining the group

To participate in the activities of the Research Committee, please contact the Chairperson and Co-chair, Prof. Simone Rebora (simone.rebora@univr.it) and Prof. Youngmin Kim (yk4147@daum.net).