mastodon 4.7.3Assistant Professor of Modern German Literature/Digital Literary Studies at the University of Vienna. Leading research interests in the #DigitalHumanities are the interdisciplinary development and reflection of methods, theory and practice of the #operationalization of concepts from literary studies for computer-aided text analysis as well as the exploration of the potentials and dangers of the use of Large Language Models (#LLMs) in the DH.
📢 Prae-Doc-Stelle (30h, 3 Jahre) am Institut für Germanistik der Uni Wien im FWF-Projekt »Mind the Gap: Theory-driven Operationalization in Computational Literary Studies«.
Thema: literaturwiss. Konzepte für computergestützte Verfahren messbar machen – Fallbeispiel dt. Kurzgeschichte nach 1945. Diss. erwünscht, keine Lehre.
📅 Frist: 1.9.2026
📍 Wien, ab 15.10.2026
The Austrian government is reportedly planning to cut university budgets by 14%: https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000321340/universitaeten-ruesten-sich-fuer-einschnitte-beim-budget?ref=seite1_zonekur
This would be a severe blow to research, teaching, students, and Austria’s future as a knowledge-based society. Universities need stable funding — not austerity measures that weaken education and innovation.
📚 Stellenausschreibung mit #DigitalHumanities-Schwerpunkt an der Fachbibliothek Germanistik & Skandinavistik der Uni Wien (Vollzeit, ab 01.04.2026).
Die Stelle umfasst einen eigenen DH-Support-Bereich – Beratung zu DH-Workflows, Organisation von Workshops, Aufbereitung von DH-Ressourcen & First-Level-Anlaufstelle für DH-Anliegen.
Erfahrung mit #Transkribus erwünscht, #Python-Kenntnisse von Vorteil.
Bewerbungsfrist: 23.03.2026
👉 https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Mitarbeiterin-an-der-Fachbibliothek-Germanistik-und-Skandinavistik-%28wmd%29/1369592333/
#DH #Bibliothek #Jobs #Wien
🎉 Excited to share our (@janispagel@fedihum.org, @nilsreiter@social.cologne) latest work at LaTeCH-CLfL 2025:
Prompt Engineering in Computational Literary Studies – Promise vs. Practice
We test how reliably LLMs generate sequence labels in a CLS context:
🔁 same prompts, different splits
🧠 prompt rewording
📎 performance-boosting phrases
Findings: results vary by split & wording; fixed phrases rarely help.
📢 Workshop: re-late – re-use – re-vise
Join us for a workshop on how Large Language Models can support variant detection and intertextuality studies in the Digital Humanities. We will explore practical use cases, discuss methodological implications, and try out LLM-based approaches.
When? Thursday, 4 December 2025, 9:00–16:45
Where? Jura-Soyfer-Saal, Hofburg, Batthyanystiege, 1010 Vienna
🔗 Info & program: https://evsl.univie.ac.at/digital-philology/recent-advances-in-digital-philology/
📄 Our new paper – with Martin Endres & @nilsreiter@fedihum.org – is now published in the Journal of Computational Literary Studies!
We present a workflow to evaluate LLM-generated poem interpretations using standards and argumentative structures from literary studies, showing strengths in descriptive analysis and limitations in producing acceptable rules of inferences.
👉 https://jcls.io/article/id/4312/
#DigitalHumanities #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #LLMs
