Short Bio

Since 2023, I have been a professor of digital literary studies at the Ludwig-Maximlians-Universität (LMU) Munich. From 2022 to 2023, I was a Walter-Benjamin fellow (DFG) at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Antwerp. Until 2022, I worked as a research fellow at the University of Wuerzburg. In 2020, I was the deputy of the professorship for Digital Humanities at the University of Trier. My focus in research lies on interpretation theories, literary history, canonization, suspense, and on the methodological as well as epistemological foundations of Computational Literary Studies (CLS). Much of my work can be described as the attempt to further develop machine learning and statistical reasoning to model and understand literary and cultural change.

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Contact

Prof. Dr. Julian Schröter
Schellingstr. 3 RG
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
80799 München
Email: j.schroeter@lmu.de

Institutional Web page: https://www.germanistik.lmu.de/schroeter

Current note

I am currently in a research semester (Forschungssemester). During this period, please reach out to Rabea Kleymann, who is deputy of the professorship of Digital Literary Studies.

Research interests

• Methodology of computational literary studies (CLS), including agent-based modeling, machine learning, and large language models
• Novella and media history of German nineteenth-century literature
• Literary and genre theory, including the modeling of literary history
• Suspense and Mystery
• The German Heftroman (dime novel)
• History of Canonization

Team

• Dr. Keli Du, Cluster of Excellence 3061-1 “Cross-Cultural Philology”
• Dr. Simon Schkade, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
• Manuela Floßmann, wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

Student Assistants:

• Sophie Gerger (Cluster of Excellence 3061, Cross-Cultural Philology)
• Anda Dumitrescu (Cluster of Excellence 3061, Cross-Cultural Philology)
• Franziska Danner
• Johanna Rottmoser (Balance Theory Project, TUM)
• Qiana Eisenreich (Balance Theory Project, TUM)

Former Student Assistants:

• Jana Grimm (Computational Linguistics, LMU)
• Martin Ruhl (Würzburg)
• Theresa Valta (Würzburg)
• Johannes Leitgeb (Würzburg)