Dr. Svenja Guhr
Postdoctoral Researcher
SPP-CLS Visiting Researcher, University of Cologne
fortext lab, Technical University of Darmstadt
Stanford Literary Lab, Stanford University
Research Interests: Modern German Literature, Comparative Literature, 18th-21st Century, Gender and Feminism Studies, Sensual Experiences in and through literary text(s) with a focus on Sound and Loudness
Short Introduction
As a multilingual scholar with 6+ years of experience in computational linguistics and literary studies, machine learning, and multilingual digital text analysis (English, German, French, Italian), thinking responsibility and privacy by design, I bring expertise in: natural language processing, language data collection, curation and analysis, data annotation, data quality assessment, taxonomy design and team management, combined with excellent verbal, editorial, analytical and teamwork skills.
News
New contribution to DHd-Blog
This blog post provides an analysis of CLS trends at DHd annual conferences in German-speaking countries from 2014-2025. You can find the code here.
Acceptance of our contribution to CCLS 2025
Wrapping up the LitLab project on the detection of domestic space, Jessica Monaco, Alex Sherman, Mark Algee-Hewitt, and I will present our article "Making BERT Feel at Home. Modelling Domestic Space in 19th-Century British and Irish Fiction" at CCLS2025 in Krakow, Poland in July.
Acceptance of our long paper at the DH 2025 annual conference
I look forward to seeing you at the annual DH conference of the ADHO in Lisbon, 14.07.-18.07. Check out our paper on "Scene Change Detection in 20th-Century US-American Romance Fiction".
Upcoming or Latest Talks and Workshops
May 2025
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04.05.
Contribution at the NAACL LaTeCH-CLfL SIGHUM Workshop on “Rethinking Scene Segmentation. Advancing Automated Detection of Scene Changes in Literary Texts”, Albuquerque, NM, USA -
21.05.
Invited talk on "Literary Soundscapes – Operationalization and Analysis" in the Colloquium at the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany -
22.05.
Guest lecture on "Soundfultheme-d-Prose : Corpus Annotation in XML" in the class "Corpus Creation and Analysis in Literary Studies" at the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
June 2025
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17.06., 10:00-12:00
Invited talk on "'»Weil ich Dich liebe!« schrie sie ihn gellend an.' Figurengeräusche bei T. Fontane und G. Reuter – eine Fallstudie" in the lecture "Multimodalität in der Literatur" at the University of Hamburg, Germany -
18.06., 14:00-16:00
Workshop on "Digitale Textannotation in der Literaturwissenschaft mit CATMA" at the University of Trier, Germany -
25.06., 14:00-18:00
Workshop on "Mit forTEXT und CATMA Literatur digital erforschen" at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
July 2025
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03.-04.07.
Accepted paper "Making BERT Feel at Home. Modelling Domestic Space in 19th-Century British and Irish Fiction" at the Conference of Computational Literary Studies (CCLS 2025) in Krakow, Poland -
14-18.07.
Accepted paper on "Scene Change Detection in 20th-Century US-American Romance Fiction" at the annual ADHO Digital Humanities conference (DH 2025) in Lisbon, Portugal
