Dr. Svenja Guhr

Curriculum Vitae

Current Position

Bellwether Postdoctoral Scholar

at iSchool, University of California at Berkeley, USA

Conducting dependent and independent research on annotation in computational literary studies, supervising student annotators, publishing and presenting papers at international conferences, organizing lectures and workshops on computational literary studies and cultural analytics

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-Exchange Grant (2022) and International Research Exploration Seed Grant (2023, 2024)

Editorial Assistant

at Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS), remote

Copyediting, proofreading, typesetting in LaTeX and XML, conference organization, workflow development, author communication, publication process support, social media management

Professional Experience

(Postdoctoral) Research Associate and Lecturer (Sep. 2019 – Feb. 2025)

at the fortext lab, 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 presenting papers at international conferences, assisting in the administration of teaching and research, 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

Manual and automated sentiment annotation and analysis of user-generated content in French online media; survey questionary design for empirical reader studies (LimeSurvey); web scraping, social media text mining; Python programming class support, event organization, publishing and presenting articles at international conferences

Education

  1. CLS Visiting Fellow

    at University of Cologne, Department of Digital Humanities
    Supporting the CompAnno project on comparative annotation analysis and analyzing sound in German-language GerDraCor with Dr. Janis Pagel and Prof. Dr. Nils Reiter

  2. Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar

    at Stanford University, Literary Lab
    Project Lead of "Scene Segmentation of U.S. Romance Fiction," supervising five student researchers

  3. Doctor of Philosophy

    at Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
    German Studies, Computational Linguistics and Literary Studies
    Dissertation title: “Raise your Voice – Character Sound in German-language Fiction”, supervised by Prof. Dr. Evelyn Gius

  4. Workshops on Leadership and Project Management

    at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the State and University Library Hamburg, Germany

  5. Higher Education Teaching Certificate

    at Technical University of Darmstadt

  6. Semester Abroad

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

  7. Master of Arts

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

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

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

  9. Semester Abroad

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

  10. Semester Abroad

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

  11. 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)