Organizers

• Evelyn Gius, Hamburg University  ⓘ info
  E-Mail: evelyn.gius@uni-hamburg.de
  Website: www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/germanistik/personen/gius.html
  

  Evelyn Gius studied German language and literature, philosophy and computer science at Hamburg University and the Istituto Orientale in Naples from 1999-2004. After two years in an institute for mediation and conflict management she returned to university in 2006. She has been working on a number of Digital Humanities-related projects at Hamburg University since then. Her PhD (2008-2014) was on the narrative structure of conflict narratives (link).

• Nils Reiter, Stuttgart University  ⓘ info
  E-Mail: nils.reiter@ims.uni-stuttgart.de
  Twitter: @nilsreiter
  github: github.com/nilsreiter
  Website: nilsreiter.de
  

  After studying Computational Linguistics at Saarland University, Nils Reiter did his PhD thesis at Heidelberg University. He now works as a Post-Doc at the Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS) at Stuttgart University, and, among other things, coordinates the Center for Reflected Text Analytics (CRETA). He is mostly interested in computational literary studies, processing literary texts, annotation and the operationalization of Humanities research questions.

• Marcus Willand, Stuttgart University  ⓘ info
  E-Mail: Marcus.Willand@ilw.uni-stuttgart.de
  Twitter: @marcus_willand
  Website: marcuswilland.de
  

  Marcus Willand studied German language and literature, sociology and psychology at the universities of Darmstadt, Berlin (HU) and Åbo in Finland from 2002 to 2008. After graduating he wrote his PhD thesis on theories and models of readers in literary studies (publications) between 2009 and 2014 at HU-Berlin and Princeton University. Since then he works as a Post-Doc at the Institute for Literary Studies (ILW) at Stuttgart University (chair: Andrea Albrecht).

Advisory Board

• Janina Jacke, Hamburg University
• Fotis Jannidis, Würzburg University
• Jonas Kuhn, Stuttgart University
• Jan Christoph Meister, Hamburg University