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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.

Conferences and talks

• Co-organizer of the international conference “Plot and Genre in Computational Literary Studies”, 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).

Upcoming conference 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.”