Dr. Svenja Guhr
Postdoctoral Researcher
Bellwether Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Berkeley School of Information
Founding member of fortext lab, Technical University of Darmstadt
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 7+ 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
Next Career Step: Postdoc at UCB iSchool
On September 2, I started a new position at UC Berkeley School of Information. For the next two years, I will live and work in the San Francisco Bay Area, supporting Prof. David Bamman and the Bamman Group in their exciting research on computational literary studies and cultural analytics.
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
September 2025
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03.09.
"Sound in Drama", Talk at DraCor Summit "Workshop on Computational Drama Analysis" at FU Berlin, Germany
October 2025
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02.10.
Invited Talk "Hearing Suspense: Sound, Loudness, and Tension in Romance Novels" at the Workshop on "Narratology and Computational Approaches" at ENS in Paris, France -
06.10.
Invited Talk "Sounds of Passion: Character Sound and Scene Segmentation in 20th-Century US Romance Fiction" at the Seminar on "Erotic/Dark Romances" (tbc) at University of Mannheim, Germany -
07-09.10.
Talk at the DFG-SPP Computational Literary Studies Closing Event (tbc) at University of Würzburg, Germany
