News

• The DFG research unit (Forschungsgruppe/FOR) “Medium – Ware – Werk: Der deutsche Heftroman von 1913 bis zur Gegenwart” (spokesperson: Christine Haug) is funded and will start soon. I am very much looking forward to lead the project (TP 6): “„Action – Analysis – Mystery: Dimensionen der Rätselstruktur im Krimiheftroman“ that I will lead LMU-Newsroom.

• The elite degree programme (Elitestudiengang) “Future writing Future” (Universität Augsburg/LMU München, Spokespersons: Stephanie Waldow and Frieder von Ammon) has recently been granted and will start in 2028.

• Interview, dpa (June 2026): “Debatte in der LiteraturszeneLiteratur und KI - schreibt die Maschine jetzt schon besser?” (erschienen u.a. in SZ, FAZ, ZEIT).

Research semester 2026

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.

Recent and upcoming conferences and guest lecture series

• Co-organizer of the international conference “Plot and Genre in Computational Literary Studies”, https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/zpd/veranstaltungen/plot-genre/, May 21–22, 2026.
• Host of Professor Ted Underwood, PhD, as a Visiting Fellow from May 1st to 31st at the Research Focus “Scales” at the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS), LMU Munich.
  • May 11, 2026, 6–8 p.m., Schellingstr. 3, S006: “AI as a Cultural Technology.”
  • May 13, 2026, 12–2 p.m., CAS, Seestr. 13: Lunch Talk, “Can Language Models Scale Down to Understand Local Context?”
• Lecture series “AI in the Book Industry, Literature, and Literary Studies,” summer semester 2026, funded by the Münchner Universitätsgesellschaft and supported by AI-HUB@LMU Link to Lecture Series.
  • Andrew Piper, June 15, 2026, 6–8 p.m., online: “When Engineers Tell Tales: Reading AI Story Generation Evaluation through the Humanities.”
  • Rabea Kleymann, July 6, 2026: “Text Analysis with AI” (exact topic to be announced).

Recent and Upcoming talks and presentations

• June 18–19, 2026, Darmstadt, with Keli Du: “On the Relationship Between Textual and Contextual Factors of Canonization,” at “Mapping the Canon: Quantitative Approaches to Literary History.” https://www.linglit.tu-darmstadt.de/institutlinglit/mitarbeitende/brottrager/mapping_the_canon/index.en.jsp
• July 16–18, 2026, Göttingen, with Benjamin Gittel: “Praxis in den Computational Literary Studies: zwischen Tradition und Innovation,” at “Was geht – und warum? Normative Perspektiven auf literaturwissenschaftliche Praktiken.”