Dr. Katrin Rohrbacher

Dr. Katrin Rohrbacher

Research Assistant (Postdoc)

Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS)
W3-Professur für Digital Humanities mit Schwerpunkt Computing Text and Language

Nürnbergerstraße 74
91052 Erlangen

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 Sciences

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. & Schrittesser, D. (forthcoming). Bridging the Gaps: Integrating Bibliographic Metadata into Wikidata for Literary Corpora. Journal of Open Humanities Data.

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