Dr. Svenja Guhr

Curriculum Vitae

Current Position

Postdoctoral Researcher

at fortext lab, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

Conducting dependent and independent research on annotation in computational literary stud- ies, supervising student annotators, publishing and presenting papers at international confer- ences, assisting in the administration of the research lab, organizing workshops

Visiting Research Scholar

at Literary Lab, Stanford University, USA

Initiation of this long-term collaboration, conducting research projects, consulting and giving workshops as an expert on annotation in computational literary studies, funded by DAAD-Ex- change Grant (2022) and International Research Exploration Seed Grant (2023, 2024)

Editorial Assistant

at Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS), remote

Copy-editing, proof-reading, LaTeX type-setting, conference organization, workflow develop- ment, visualization and dissemination, author communication, publication process support

Professional Experience

Research Associate and Lecturer

at the Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany (Equivalent to Assistant Professor in USA)

Conducting dependent and independent research and collaborations, publishing and present- ing papers at international conferences, assisting in the administration of teaching and re- search, organizing events, coordinating and supervising student assistants; Teaching 1-2 classes per semester in annotation, text mining, computational literary studies, Python programming, and German literary studies in undergraduate and graduate programs (German Studies, Linguistic and Literary Computing, Data and Discourse Studies)

Graduate Student Research Assistant

at Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH), Institute of Computer Science, University of Göttingen, Germany

Social media text mining, event organization, Python programming class support, publishing and presenting papers at international conferences and workshops

Education

  1. Doctor of Philosophy

    at Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Magna cum laude
    German Studies, Computational Literary Studies Dissertation title: “Raise your Voice – Character Sound in German Language Fiction”, supervised by Prof. Dr. Evelyn Gius

  2. Workshop on Project Management in the Digital Humanities

    at State and University Library Hamburg, Germany

  3. Higher Education Teaching Certificate

    at Technical University of Darmstadt

  4. Semester Abroad

    at University of Cambridge, Girton College, UK Romance Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing

  5. Master of Arts

    at University of Göttingen, Germany
    Linguistics and Literary Studies of the Romance Languages, General Linguis- tics, Computational Linguistics, Digital Humanities

  6. Certificate of Interculturality and Multilingualism / German as Second Language

    at University of Göttingen, GermanyGerman Grammar, German Linguistics, Teaching German as Second Language, Language Coaching, Language Didactics

  7. Semester Abroad

    at University of Pavia, Italy
    Italian Linguistics (Semantics, Syntax, Pragmatics, Phonology, Lexicography, Dialectology), Sociolinguistics, General Phonetics, Computational Linguistics

  8. Semester Abroad

    at University of Strasbourg, France
    French Linguistics, Phonetics, French Public Law and European Law

  9. Bachelor of Arts

    at University of Bremen, Germany
    Major in French and Italian Linguistics and Literary Studies, Minor in German and European Law (Market and Privacy Law)