Dr. Katrin Rohrbacher

Professorship for Digital Humanities focusing on Computing Text and Language

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Research Focus

  • Data-driven Study of Literature
  • Computational narratology, using LLMs and machine learning to study storytelling
  • Annotation in theory and practice
  • Development of tools and corpora

Curriculum Vitae

  1. Since 03/2025

    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Postdoc)
    FAU Erlangen–Nürnberg, Department Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS)

  2. 09/2019 – 02/2025

    Managing Editor
    Journal of Cultural Analytics

  3. 09/2018 – 02/2025

    Doktorandin (PhD)
    McGill University, German Studies

    Dissertation: Aspects of Space: Quantitative Approaches to Fictional Worlds

Publikationen

  • Rohrbacher, K., Wagner, A., & Mahlberg, M. (2026). "Letting the Cat out of the Bag": Towards the Automatic Detection of Animal Metaphors in Literary Texts. Book of Abstracts of the DH2026, ADHO Annual Conference 2026, South Korea / hybrid. Forthcoming.
  • Mahlberg, M., & Rohrbacher, K. (2026). Corpora in Digital Humanities and Corpus Linguistics. In H. Nesi & P. Milin (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (3rd ed., pp. 62–68). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.01548-9.
  • Rohrbacher, K. & Schrittesser, D. (2026). Bridging the Gaps: Integrating Bibliographic Metadata into Wikidata for Literary Corpora. Journal of Open Humanities Data. https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.483.
  • Rohrbacher, K. (forthcoming). “Lived space”: A Computational Study of Setting in Fiction. In: Comparing landscapes. Approaches to Space and Affect in Literary Fiction: Conference Proceedings. Ed. Berenike Herrmann, Giulia Grisot, Robin Aust.
  • Rohrbacher, K. (2025). de-Corp: A Corpus of German Fiction and Non-Fiction (1780-1930). Journal of Open Humanities Data, 11(1), p. 51. https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.350.
  • Rohrbacher, K. (2025). Opening Worlds: Narrative Beginnings and the Role of Setting. CCLS2025 Conference Preprints, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.26083/tuprints-00030149.
  • Luederitz, C., Animesh, A., Rohrbacher, K., Li, T., Piper, A., Potvin, C., & Etzion, D. (2023). Non-monetary narratives motivate businesses to engage with climate change. Sustainability Science, 18(6), 2649–2660. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01386-1