Svenja Guhr - personal website

Publications

Monograph and Thesis

Guhr, S. (in print). Raise Your Voice – Character Sound in German-language Fiction. J.B. Metzler Book Series “Digitale Literaturwissenschaft”, Springer Nature.
Guhr, S. (2024). Raise Your Voice – Character Sound in German Literary Prose [Doctoral Thesis]. Technical University of Darmstadt.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Guhr, S., Monaco, J., Sherman, A., & Algee-Hewitt, M. (2025). “Making BERT Feel at Home. Modelling Domestic Space in 19th-Century British and Irish Fiction.” Journal of Computational Literary Studies, 4(1). DOI: 10.48694/jcls.4164
Guhr, S. (2025). “Textannotation (mit CATMA) als Blended Learning.” forTEXT Hefte, 2(1). DOI: 10.48694/fortext.4067
Guhr, S., & Algee-Hewitt, M. (2024). “What’s that Scary Sound? Ambient Sound in Gothic Fiction.” Journal of Computational Literary Studies, 2(1). DOI: 10.48694/jcls.3583
Gius, E., Guhr, S., & Uglanova, I. (2021). “'d-Prose 1870–1920' a Collection of German Prose Texts from 1870 to 1920.” Journal of Open Humanities Data, 7. DOI: 10.5334/johd.30

Peer Reviewed Conference Contributions

2026

Guhr, S., & Mahlberg, M. (accepted). “Soundful Dickens. The Narrative Function of Sounds in Dickens’s Fictional Worlds.” Book of Abstracts, 12. Tagung des Verbands “Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum” (DHd 2026), Vienna.
Guhr, S., Pagel, J., & Reiter, N. (under review). "What Does Drama Sound Like? Sound Analysis of GerDraCor." JCLS 5 Special Issue "DraCor Summit".

2025

Guhr, S., Monaco, J., Sherman, A., & Algee-Hewitt, M. (2025). “Making BERT Feel at Home. Modelling Domestic Space in 19th-Century British and Irish Fiction.” CCLS2025 Kraków. 4th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, July 3-4, 2025. Conference Preprint. DOI: 10.26083/tuprints-00030145
Guhr, S., Mao, H., Lin, F., Sherman, A.J., & Algee-Hewitt, M. (2025). “Scene Change Detection in 20th-Century US-American Romance Fiction.” Book of Abstracts of the DH 2025, ADHO Annual Conference 2025, Lisbon/hybrid.
Guhr, S., Mao, H., Lin, F. (2025). “Rethinking Scene Segmentation. Advancing Automated Detection of Scene Changes in Literary Texts.” The 9th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature. LaTeCH-CLfL 2025, Albuquerque/NM. https://aclanthology.org/2025.latechclfl-1.8/
Akazawa, M., Gerstorfer, D., Gius, E., Guhr, S., Häußler, J., Meister, M., Messner, S., Stiemer, H., & von Keitz, J. (2025). “Textannotation in der Lehre einsetzen: Ein Einstieg mit CATMA.” Book of Abstracts, 11. Tagung des Verbands “Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum” (DHd 2025), Bielefeld. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14942981

2024

Häußler, J., Guhr, S., & Gius, E. (2024). “Lautstärke und Konflikt in Realismus und Naturalismus.” Book of Abstracts, 10. Tagung des Verbands “Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum” (DHd 2024), Passau. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10698470
Sherman, A. J., Guhr, S., Monaco, J. M., Warner, M., Lamar, A. K., & Algee-Hewitt, M. (2024). “A Home without a ‘House’: Modelling Domestic Space in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction.” Book of Abstracts of the DH 2024, ADHO Annual Conference 2024, Washington D.C./hybrid. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13761066

2023

Gius, E., Schöch, C., Trilcke, P., Gerstorfer, D., Guhr, S., Ripoll, E., & Sluyter-Gäthje, H. (2023a). The Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS): Community, review, and editorial workflow in an Open Access Journal. Book of Abstracts of the DH 2023, ADHO Annual Conference 2023, Graz. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8107458
Gius, E., Schöch, C., Trilcke, P., Gerstorfer, D., Guhr, S., Ripoll, E., & Sluyter-Gäthje, H. (2023b). Opening a Journal. Erfahrungen bei der Gründung des Journal of Computational Literary Studies. Book of Abstracts, 9. Tagung des Verbands “Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum” (DHd 2023), Luxemburg/Trier. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7715496
Guhr, S., & Algee-Hewitt, M. (2023). On the Relation of Sound and Suspense in Literary Fiction. Book of Abstracts of the DH 2023, ADHO Annual Conference 2023, Graz. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8107698
Guhr, S., Gius, E., & Stiemer, H. (2023). Vom Briefroman zu den Briefen in der Prosa. Brieftexte im d-Prose-Korpus. In S. Bartsch, L. Borek, & P. Hegel (Eds.), Computer im Musenhain. Von träumenden Büchern und der Aura des Digitalen (pp. 117–130). TU Prints. DOI: 10.26083/TUprints-00024712

2022

Burghardt, M., Dieckmann, L., Guhr, S., Reiter, N., Scholger, W., Steyer, T., Trilcke, P., & Wuttke, U. (2022). Offen für alle(s)? - Open Identities im Reviewprozess der DHd-Konferenz. Book of Abstracts, 8. Tagung des Verbands “Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum” (DHd 2022), Potsdam/virtual. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6328144
Guhr, S., & Gius, E. (2022). Maschinen als Erzähltheoretiker. In L. Auteri, N. Barrale, A. Di Bella, & S. Hoffmann (Eds.), Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik. Wege der Germanistik in transkultureller Perspektive. Akten des XIV. Kongresses der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG) (Vol. 6). Peter Lang.
Guhr, S., Reiter, N., Zarrieß, S., & Gius, E. (2022). Shared Tasks in Computational Literary Studies: Guideline Creation, Annotation and Text Generation for the Analysis of Narrative Levels. Book of Abstracts of the DH 2022. ADHO Annual Conference 2022, Tokyo/hybrid. https://dh2022.dhii.asia/dh2022bookofabsts.pdf
Guhr, S., Steyer, T., Scholger, W., Burghardt, M., Dieckmann, L., Reiter, N., Trilcke, P., & Wuttke, U. (2022). Optimiertes Peer Reviewing in den Digital Humanities. Book of Abstracts, 8. Tagung des Verbands “Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum” (DHd 2022), Potsdam/virtual. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6328002
Reiter, N., Sieker, J., Guhr, S., Gius, E., & Zarrieß, S. (2022). Exploring Text Recombination for Automatic Narrative Level Detection. Proceedings of the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marseille/hybrid, 3346–3353. https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.357

2021

Zehe, A., Konle, L., Guhr, S., Dümpelmann, L., Gius, E., Hotho, A., Jannidis, F., Kaufmann, L., Krug, M., Puppe, F., Reiter, N., & Schreiber, A. (2021). Shared Task on Scene Segmentation (STSS). Task Description Paper. Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS). 17th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS), Düsseldorf/online. http://lsx-events.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/files/stss2021/proceedings/stss.pdf
Guhr, S. [co-authored section] “Analysis and Evaluation of Guideline Revisions,” pp. 10–16 in article: Gius, E., Willand, M., & Reiter, N. (2021). On Organizing a Shared Task for the Digital Humanities – Conclusions and Future Paths. Journal of Cultural Analytics. DOI: 10.22148/001c.30697

2020

Brokering, A., & Guhr, S. (2020). Interdisziplinäres Streitgespräch – Nutzerkommentaranalysen aus ethisch-rechtlicher Perspektive. Book of Abstracts, 7. Tagung des Verbands “Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum” (DHd 2020), Paderborn, p.1-3. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4621919
Guhr, S. (2020a). Raise your voice! - Über den Zusammenhang zwischen Lautstärkemerkmalen in literarischen Prosatexten und der Emanzipation der Frau von 1848 bis 1920. Book of Abstracts, 7. Tagung des Verbands “Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum” (DHd 2020), Paderborn. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4621917
Guhr, S. (2020b). En France, on hurle – au Québec, on braille! Une comparaison diachronique de l’usage des verba dicendi dans la littérature franco-québécoise et française standard. Book of Abstracts of the DH 2020, ADHO Annual Conference 2020, Ottawa/online. Link

2019

Guhr, S. (2019). Raise your voice - The relation of loudness in direct discourse and women’s emancipation. Book of Abstracts of the Summer School of Computational Humanities, p. 45.
Guhr, S., Varachkina, H., Lee, G. B., & Sporleder, C. (2019). Multimodales Zusammenspiel von Text und erlebter Stimme – Analyse der Lautstärkesignale in direkter Rede. Book of Abstracts, 6. Tagung des Verbands “Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum” (DHd 2019), Frankfurt/Main. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4622172

2018

Guhr, S., Pannach, F., Ziehe, S., Knauth, J., Kauf, C., & Sporleder, C. (2018). Chancen und Grenzen von Digitalen Methoden zur Analyse der politischen Meinungsbildung in Sozialen Medien. Book of Abstracts, 5. Tagung des Verbands “Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum” (DHd 2018), Köln. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4622582

Other Publications (without Peer Review)

Guhr, S., Pagel, J., & Reiter, N. (2025). "What Does Drama Sound Like?" in: Conference Reader: DraCor Summit 2025. Second Workshop on Computational Drama Analysis (Berlin, 03.09.2025). DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16936633
Guhr, S. (2025). Trends in den Computational Literary Studies bei den DHd-Jahrestagungen, DHd-Blog. Link
Guhr, S., Mao, H. and Lin, F. (2025). Rethinking Scene Segmentation. Advancing Automated Detection of Scene Changes in Literary Texts [Poster]. The 9th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature, NAACL25 (SIGHUM LaTeCH-CLfL 2025). DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15281018
Reiter, N., & Guhr, S. (2025). How to Create Annotation Guidelines. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15275665
Guhr, S. (2024). theme-d-Prose 1848–1920 (Version 1.0). [Text Corpus]. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12666500
Guhr, S. (2023). Als Editorial Assistant beim neu gegründeten Journal of Computational Literary Studies. Ein Erfahrungsbericht. L.I.S.A. WISSENSCHAFTSPORTAL GERDA HENKEL STIFTUNG. Link
Guhr, S. (2022). Konferenzreviewing in den digitalen Geisteswissenschaften. L.I.S.A. WISSENSCHAFTS-PORTAL GERDA HENKEL STIFTUNG. Link
Burghardt, M., Dieckmann, L., Guhr, S., Reiter, N., Scholger, W., Steyer, T., Trilcke, P., & Wuttke, U. (2021). Handreichung für den Begutachtungsprozess der DHd2022. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5093652
Gius, E., Guhr, S., & Adelmann, B. (2021). d-Prose 1870-1920. Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5015008
Gius, E., Sökefeld, C., Dümpelmann, L., Kaufmann, L., Schreiber, A., Guhr, S., Wiedmer, N., & Jannidis, F. (2021). Guidelines for Detection of Scenes. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4457177
Brokering, A., & Guhr, S. (2020). Interdisziplinäres Streitgespräch – Nutzerkommentaranalysen aus ethisch-rechtlicher Perspektive [Poster]. 7. Tagung des Verbands “Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum” (DHd 2020), Paderborn. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6091649
Guhr, S. (2020). En France, on hurle – au Québec, on braille! Une comparaison diachronique de l’usage des verba dicendi dans la littérature franco-québécoise et française standard [Poster]. Digital Humanities Conference 2020, Ottawa/online. Link
Wilson, G., West, J., & Girton College, C. C. (2020). Marc’Antonio Ingegneri: Missa Laudate pueri Dominum A8 [Audio recording]. Toccata Classics. Link
Guhr, S. (2019). Individuelles CRETA-Coaching im Rahmen der CRETA-Werkstatt #8. Erfahrungsbericht über ein Schlaraffenland für NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen, DHd-Blog. Link
Guhr, S. (2019). DHd 2019: Multimedial – Multimodal – Multilokal: ein Erfahrungsbericht zur DHd20219, DHd-Blog. Link

Occasion: Invited (online) talk at the hybrid Workshop "Digitale Gattungshermeneutik II: Gattungen im Kontext", German Studies Department of the University of Rostock

Link: Talk Announcement

Occasion: Talk at DFG-SPP Computational Literary Studies Closing Event at University of Würzburg

Occasion: Invited Talk at the Seminar on "Erotic/Dark Romances", Anglistisches Seminar at University of Mannheim

Link: Talk Announcement

Occasion: Invited Talk at the Workshop on "Narratology and Computational Approaches", ENS in Paris

Occasion: Joint talk with Janis Pagel and Nils Reiter at DraCor Summit, in Berlin

Link: Talk Announcement

Slides & Code: GitHub Repository "SvenjaGuhr/Sound_in_Drama"

Occasion: Joint talk at annual conference of ADHO, DH2025 in Lisbon

Link: Talk Announcement

Slides & Code: GitHub Repository "literarylab/scene_segmentation"

Occasion: Talk at the 4th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, Krakow

Link: Talk Announcement

Slides & Code: GitHub Repository "literarylab/jcls_domestic_space"

Occasion: Invited talk in the lecture "Multimodalität in der Literatur" at the DH-Lab, University of Hamburg

Link: Talk Announcement

Slides & Code: GitHub Repository "SvenjaGuhr/Character_Sound_Analysis"

Occasion: Invited talk in the Digital Humanities Colloquium at the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

Link: Talk Announcement

Slides & Code: GitHub Repository "SvenjaGuhr/Literary_Soundscapes"

Occasion: Invited talk at Spinfo workshop, University of Cologne

Occasion: Invited talk in the lecture series “Code & Kultur” at Digital Humanities Network, University of Potsdam (online)

Link: Talk Announcement

Occasion: Talk at workshop “Textannotation in der Lehre einsetzen: Ein Einstieg mit CATMA“ at the Annual Conference of the DHd 2025, University of Bielefeld

Occasion: Joint talk at the Stanford Literary Lab

Occasion: Joint talk at workshop “Characters and Gender Stereotypes in German and US-American Dime Novels” at Stanford Literary Lab

Occasion: Invited online talk at "Praxiswerkstatt Projektmanagement" organized by Ulrike Wahl (Die Hochschulerfrischerin)

Details: Presentation of my management concept for small project groups

Link: Talk Announcement

Occasion: Joint talk at the Stanford Literary Lab

Occasion: Invited talk at Oberseminar series of Humanities Data Science and Methodology Institute, Technical University of Darmstadt (hybrid)

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Occasion: Invited talk in the graduate studies lecture series "Praxis der Digital Humanities" at University of Trier (online)

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Occasion: Invited talk at Stanford Literary Lab to celebrate the lab members’ completed Ph.D. dissertations

Occasion: Invited talk at CESTA Tuesday lunch seminar, Stanford University

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Occasion: Doctoral Thesis Defense Talk at Technical University of Darmstadt

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Occasion: Talk at the Workshop on Fictional Characters at University of Würzburg

Occasion: Invited talk (hybrid) in the lecture series "Trends der Digital Humanities" at the University of Stuttgart

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Occasion: Joint talk at the Annual Conference of the DHd 2024, Passau

Occasion: Joint talk (hybrid) at the Stanford Literary Lab

Occasion: Invited talk in the CESTA Seminar Series at Stanford University

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Occasion: Invited talk as part of the "Week of the Short Story" at the Stanford Literary Lab (hybrid)

Occasion: Invited talk at the workshop "Interdisciplinary and Experimental Approaches to Suspense and Related Phenomena", Graz (hybrid)

Occasion: Talk at annual conference of ADHO, DH2024 in Graz (conference participation funded by DAAD)

Occasion: Talk within InfoDiTexT+ series (online)

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Occasion: Talk at the 2nd Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, Würzburg (presented research was funded by DAAD)

Occasion: Joint talk (hybrid) at the Stanford Literary Lab

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Occasion: Talk at the Stanford Literary Lab (research stay funded by DAAD)

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Occasion: Session chair and lightening talk at DHd Barcamp, Potsdam

Occasion: Talk as part of the panel “Offen für alle(s)? -- Open Identities im Reviewprozess der DHd-Konferenz” at the Annual Conference of the DHd 2022 (online)

Occasion: Talk at XIV. Kongress der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG), Palermo (online)

Occasion: Talk at “Online Workshop on Replication and Computational Literary Studies”, University of Graz (online)

Occasion: Talk in the Doctoral Consortium of the Annual Conference of the DHd 2020, Paderborn

Occasion: Talk in the Doctoral Colloquium of the Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Technical University of Darmstadt

Occasion: Talk as Coachee at CRETA Workshop, University of Stuttgart

Occasion: Talk at DRV Summer School 2018 „Romanistische Linguistik im Zeitalter der Digital Humanities: generative und kognitive Theorien“, LMU Munich

Publications

Monograph and Thesis

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Peer Reviewed Conference Contributions

2026

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

Other Publications (without Peer Review)

Talks

11/27/2025 - "Genre-blending in Liebesromanen"

10/08/2025 - "From Annotation to Analysis: A Journey through Scenes, Sounds, and Jupyter Notebooks in CLS"

10/06/2025 - "Sounds of Passion: Character Sound and Scene Segmentation in 20th-Century US Romance Fiction"

10/02/2025 - "Hearing Suspense: Sound, Loudness, and Tension in Romance Novels"

09/03/2025 - “Sound in Drama”

07/17/2025 - “Scene Change Detection in 20th-Century US-American Romance Fiction”

07/03/2025 - “Making BERT Feel at Home. Modelling Domestic Space in 19th-Century British and Irish Fiction”

06/17/2025 - "'»Weil ich Dich liebe!« schrie sie ihn gellend an.' Figurengeräusche bei T. Fontane und G. Reuter – eine Fallstudie"

05/21/2025 - “Literary Soundscapes – Operationalization and Analysis”

03/18/2025 - “Exploring Gendered Stereotypes in US Romance Novels”

03/12/2025 - “Literary Computing of Scene Segmentation, Domestic Space, and Gender Stereotypes”

03/04/2025 - “Textannotation (mit CATMA) als Blended Learning”

02/26/2025 - “Dime Novels. Segmentation, Domestic Space, Gender Stereotypes – Project Update”

02/20/2025 - “Gender Stereotypes in Romance Novels”

01/17/2025 - "Projektmanagement in kleinen Projektgruppen"

11/21/2024 - "Dime Novels. Segmentation, Domestic Space, Gender Stereotypes"

11/12/2024 - "Discovering Character Sound in German Language Fiction"

10/29/2024 - "Internationale Kooperationen in der computationellen Literaturwissenschaft (CLS)"

10/10/2024 - "A Computational Literary Study of Fictional Sound"

10/01/2024 - "Discovering Fictional Sound: Operationalization and Automation"

07/11/2024 - "Raise Your Voice – Character Sound in German Literary Prose"

06/21/2024 - "Character Sound Analysis in CLS"

06/19/2024 - "Soundscapes in Literatur digital untersuchen"

02/29/2024 - "Lautstärke und Konflikt in Realismus und Naturalismus"

01/16/2024 - "A Home without a ‘House’. Modeling Domestic Space in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction"

11/14/2023 - "Sound in 19th Century Fiction"

10/25/2023 - "Sound and Narrative"

10/09/2023 - "Ambient Sound and Suspense in 19th Century Fiction"

07/12/2023 - "On the Relation of Sound and Suspense in Literary Fiction"

06/27/2023 - "Sound and Suspense – Scary Sounds in 19th Century English Fiction"

06/23/2023 - "What’s that Scary Sound?"

03/13/2023 - "Modeling Domestic Space"

11/14/2022 - "Loudness and Suspense in 19th Century Fiction"

07/08/2022 - "Kategoriensysteme entwickeln für handhabbare Kulturdaten"

03/09/2022 - "Open Peer Review"

07/20/2021 - "Maschinen als Erzähltheoretiker"

02/23/2021 - "Report on Master’s Project and Teaching Experience with Sentiment Analysis"

03/04/2020 - "Raise your voice! – Über den Zusammenhang zwischen Lautstärkemerkmalen in literarischen Prosatexten und der Emanzipation der Frau von 1848 bis 1920"

01/29/2020 - "Lautstärkemerkmale im Kontext der Emanzipation der Frau im 19. Jh."

09/24/2019 - "Geräuschanalyse in deutscher Prosa"

09/06/2018 - "Sentimentanalyse von Userkommentaren unter Onlinezeitungsartikeln zur französischen Präsidentschaftswahl 2017"