My main areas of research are
- Digital Humanities; digital and computational literary studies
- Digital text analysis
- Annotation and the Semantic Web
- Literary methods
- (German-language) literature of the 18th–21st centuries
- Narrative, media and performance theory
Academic career
| Period | Position |
|---|---|
| since 07/2025 | Head of Digital Humanities Lab (DH Lab), University of Hamburg |
| 07/2021–09/2025 | Head of Service Center for Digital Humanities (SCDH), University of Münster, University and State Library |
| 02/2020–06/2021 | Head of Digital Laboratory and manager of Research Association Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel, Klassik Stiftung Weimar |
| 05/2017–01/2020 | Project coordinator (Postdoc) of DFG project forTEXT. Literatur digital erforschen, University of Hamburg, Institute for German Studies |
| 08/2016–04/2017 | Research assistant in the Digital Humanities project Entsagung bei Goethe, University of Hamburg, Institute for German Studies |
| 04/2013–11/2016 | PhD (summa cum laude), University of Hamburg. Topic: „Theaternarratologie. Ein erzähltheoretisches Analyseverfahren für Theaterinszenierungen". Supervision: Prof. Dr. Jan Christoph Meister; Prof. Dr. Inke Gunia |
| 05/2015–08/2015 | Research stay at Aarhus University (Denmark) funded by Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes |
| 2013–2016 | PhD scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes |
| 2011–2012 | Student assistant of Prof. Dr. Jan Christoph Meister; University of Hamburg, Institute for German Studies |
| 10/2010–11/2012 | Master of Arts (Deutschsprachige Literaturen), Universität Hamburg |
| 10/2007–09/2010 | Bachelor of Arts (Germanistik und Geschichte), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster |
Memberships
- Editorial team forTEXT Journal (since 2024)
- Editorial team Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften (ZfdG) (since 2020)
- DHd working group Digitales Publizieren (since 2020)
- DHd working group Digital Humanities Theorie (since 2020)
- DHd working group Wissenschaftskommunikation und Public Humanities (seit 2024)
- EADH (European Association for Digital Humanities) (since 2017)
- DHd (Association Digital Humanities in German-speaking countries) (since 2017)
- ENN (European Narratology Network) (since 2013)
Academic Service
| Period | Activity |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Member of the taskforce „KI in Studium und Lehre”, University of Hamburg |
| 2023–24 | Elected member of Scientific Coordination Committee „Editions", NFDI consortium Text+ |
| 2023–24 | Representative of the DHd association in programme committee DH conference 2024 in Washington |
| 2023–24 | Mentor in DHd mentor programme |
| 2021–24 | Taskforce Science communication, DHd working group Digital Humanities Theorie |
| 2020 & 2022 | Selection weekend of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes |
| 2018–19 | Speaker of academic personnel, University of Hamburg, Institute for German Studies |
| 2018 | Appointments committee for junior professorship NDL, University of Hamburg |
| 2008–10 | Elected member of student council German Studies, University of Münster |
Organisation
| Period | Event |
|---|---|
| since 10/2025 | Resp. semester programme of DH Lab, University of Hamburg |
| 06/2025 | DH Day 2025: „DH bewegt", University of Münster |
| 07/2024 | DH Day 2024: „Wissen schaffen. Geisteswissenschaftliche Workflows zwischen manueller Arbeit und Automatisierung", University of Münster |
| 12/2023 | DH Day 2023: „Kooperation und Partizipation in den Digital Humanities", University of Münster |
| 11/2023 | Workshop „DH-Theorie Starterkit", DHd working group Digital Humanities Theorie |
| 10/2023 | Autumn meeting DHd working group Digitales Publizieren, University of Münster |
| 05/2023 | „ChatGPT und die Veränderung digitalen Arbeitens durch die nächste Generation von KI-Anwendungen", workshop University of Münster |
| 12/2022 | DH Day 2022: „Unboxing DH - wie generieren wir Wissen mit digitalen Methoden und Tools?", University of Münster |
| 06/2022 | Conference „Algorithmizität als Kultur des Verstehens. Digitale Erkenntnisprozesse in den Humanities", ZfL Berlin (DHd working group Digital Humanities Theorie) |
| 03/2022 | „Druckst du noch? Visionen und Bastionen des (digitalen) Publizierens in den Geisteswissenschaften", Panel discussion Digitales Publizieren und die Qualitätsfrage. Wege für Open Access in den Geisteswissenschaften, University of Duisburg-Essen |
| 11/2021 | DH Day 2021: „Join the Digital", University of Münster |
| 08/2021 | Summerschool „Räume des Sammelns", Weimar (Research Association MWW) |
| 08/2020 | Virtual conference „Während und nach Corona: Digitale Lehre in der Germanistik" (together with Prof. Dr. Kai Bremer, Osnabrück, Prof. Dr. Thomas Ernst, Antwerpen/Amsterdam, Prof. Dr. Andrea Geier, Trier, Prof. Dr. Thorsten Ries, Gent/Regensburg/N.N., PD Dr. Claudius Sittig, Rostock und Ariane Rau, Frankfurt a. M.) |
| 01/2020 | Conference „Toward Undogmatic Reading: Narratology, Digital Humanities, and Beyond" to mark the retirement of Prof. Dr. Jan Christoph Meister, University of Hamburg |
| 07/2019 | forTEXT expert workshop „Automatisierung in der digitalen Textarbeit", University of Hamburg |
| 06/2018 | forTEXT workshop „Transkribus", University of Hamburg |
| 02/2018 | forTEXT expert workshop „Beratungskonzepte in den Digital Humanities", University of Hamburg |
| 2015–18 | Assistance with the organisation and running of the annual Summer Course in Narrative Studies (SINS), Aarhus University |