Established in 2019, the Global and Digital Literary Studies Lab explores synergic approaches to literary and translation studies from a global perspective, combining innovative digital analytical and visualisation methods on the one side and existing sociological, text-oriented and oral-historical method of literary and translation enquiry.
The lab endeavours to develop digital tools for the analysis and visualisation of large-scale data on global literary exchange, especially focusing on the translation and international reception of Czech literature as a typical smaller European literature.
Moreover, we explore theories and methods investigating multifaceted global literary circulation as well as the variegated individual life trajectories of authors, translators, publishers as well as the trajectories of individual works both in terms of publication, translation and reception.
Our key research objectives include systematic charting the global dissemination of Czech literature by aggregating and processing bibliographical data on books and magazines as well as analysing biographical data on translators, authors and publishers of translated literature.
Currently, we are focusing on a Czech Science Foundation-funded project Global Trajectories of Czech Literature since 1945.
Head: Mgr. Ondřej Vimr, Ph.D.
Contact address: vimr@ucl.cas.cz
The Bibliographical Data Working Group of the DARIAH-ERIC consortium is organising a remote workshop entitled Databases and information systems for research output: digital humanities outlook read more
We are opening the registration for the Mutual Learning Workshop for Improving Cultural Heritage Bibliographical Data organised by the Bibliographical Data Working Group of the DARIAH-ERIC consortium on 12–14 October in Prague. read more
On June 27, 2022, the Sixth Congress of International Czech Literary Studies, organised by the Institute of Czech Literature of the CAS in cooperation with the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University, and the Slovak Academy of Sciences, was officially opened in Prague. Czech Literary Bibliography team will also contribute to the four-day rich programme: read more
On April 22–29, our colleagues from the Global and Digital Literary Studies Lab and the Current and Literary Samizdat Bibliography Sections visited the Polska Bibliografia Literacka in Poznań. The main topics of the meeting with bibliographers from our sister institution included international cooperation read more
Seven colleagues from the Czech Literary Bibliography visited Poznan in the last week of April. The main focus of their stay was to exchange experience with colleagues from our Polish partner institution Polska Bibliografia Literacka (Instytut Badań Literackich PAN). read more
The journal Perspectives has just published an article by Ondřej Vimr (Global and Digital Literary Studies Lab of the CLB) entitled “The impact of translation subsidies on publishing decisions in smaller European countries”. read more
