Luise Prager, M. A.

Luise Prager, M. A.

Research Assistant

Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS)
„Literatur und Öffentlichkeit in differenten Gegenwartskulturen“

Nürnbergerstraße 74
91052 Erlangen

Research Focus

  • Contemporary Literatures
  • Digital Humanities, focusing on stylometric network analysis
  • Jewish Literatures

 

Since 10/2025
Research Assistant, FAU Erlangen–Nürnberg
Doctoral Fellow in the Research Training Group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Contemporary Cultures”
Working title of dissertation: Mapping the German-Language Literary Landscape. A Stylometric Analysis of Central Positions in Contemporary German-Language Literature (Die Vermessung des deutschsprachigen Literaturhimmels)

04/2021 – 09/2025
M.A. German Studies, focus on Literary Studies, University of Potsdam
Master’s thesis: NovaCor. Analyses of a Corpus of Contemporary Debuts by German-Language Women Authors Using Mixed Methods

02/2023
HUJI–FUB Digital Humanities Winter School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

10/2016 – 09/2020
B.A. in German and Music Education
Bachelor’s thesis: Spaces and Home in Judith Kerr’s novel “When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit” (Als Hitler das rosa Kaninchen stahl)

“Narrating Silence. Female Perspectives on the Village in Regina Scheer’s Machandel,” in: Stadt–Land, edited by Katharina Mohring, Natalie Moser, and Ulrike Schneider, Bielefeld, transcript, 2025, pp. 85–102.