Dr. Katrin Rohrbacher
Research Assistant (Postdoc)
91052 Erlangen
Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS)
W3-Professur für Digital Humanities mit Schwerpunkt Computing Text and Language
91052 Erlangen
- Email: katrin.rohrbacher@fau.de
- Website: https://katrin-rohrbacher.github.io/
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
Since 03/2025
Postdoctoral Researcher
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Postdoc)
FAU Erlangen–Nürnberg, Department Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS)
09/2019 – 02/2025
Managing Editor
Journal of Cultural Analytics
09/2018 – 02/2025
Doctoral Researcher
McGill University, German Studies
Doctoral dissertation: Aspects of Space: Quantitative Approaches to Fictional Worlds
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
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