I am a postdoctoral researcher in Computational Literary Studies at the University of Stuttgart. My research revolves around German-language literature, especially 19th- and 20th-century poetry, as well as literary canonization, the praxeology of literary studies, and reception research in the context of Digital Social Reading. Below, you can find an overview of my current projects and research interests.

Project 1: Lay Literary Theories

I investigate the literary-theoretical ideas held by people who engage with literature outside of professional or academic contexts. Do “everyday readers” believe that the meaning of a text depends on the author’s intention? Do they think there is a single “correct” interpretation of a work? And what do they actually mean when they talk about “literature”? To explore these and related questions, I use quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze discussions and reviews on digital platforms such as LovelyBooks and Amazon.

Highlight Publication: Lay Literary Theory and its Investigation through Digital Social Reading. In: Journal of Literary Theory 20.2 (2026), forthcoming.

Highlight Publication: The Terminological Resources of Lay Readers: Do LovelyBooks Users Distinguish fiktiv from fiktional? In: Scientific Study of Literature 15.1 (2026), pp. 22—40. https://doi.org/10.61645/ssol.212.

Project 2: Reconstruction of Canonicity

Together with Jana Eckardt (Göttingen) and Agnes Hilger (Würzburg), I investigate how canonicity can be reconstructed empirically. Among other things, we use quantitative methods to operationalize the canonicity of authors from German-language literature.

Highlight Publication: Taking a Step Back: Theoretical Fundamentals of Canonicity and its Empirical Reconstruction. In: Poetics Today 47.3 (2026), pp. 417–447. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-12463688. With Agnes Hilger und Jana Eckardt.

Highlight Publication: 1000 Punkte für Goethe. Eine empirische Rekonstruktion des Kanons der neueren deutschsprachigen Literatur. In: Zeitschrift für Germanistik 37.1 (2027), forthcoming. With Jana Eckardt and Agnes Hilger.

Project 3: Praxeology of Literary Studies

I am interested in understanding how literary studies actually works: How do scholars interpret literary works? What role do literary theories play in their day-to-day practice? And how are their actions shaped by social and institutional contexts? Together with the ArguLit team, I investigate these and related questions using both qualitative and quantitative methods.

Highlight Publication: Praktiken des Plausibilisierens. Untersuchungen zum Argumentieren in literaturwissenschaftlichen Interpretationstexten, Göttingen 2024. With Simone Winko, Stefan Descher, Urania Milevski, Fabian Finkendey, Loreen Dalski and Julia Wagner. https://doi.org/10.17875/gup2024-2639.

Project 4: Literary Change

I am part of the project “Literary Change. German Poetry between Realism and Early Modernism and its Relation to Literary, Cultural and Social Developments”, funded by the DFG from 2020 to 2026. The project investigates the development of German-language poetry from around 1850 to 1920 using methods from Computational Literary Studies and is led by Fotis Jannidis and Simone Winko. You can find more information about the project here.

Highlight Publication: On the Unity of Literary Change. The Development of Emotions in German Poetry, Prose, and Drama between 1850 and 1920 as a Test Case. In: Computational Humanities Research 2024, pp. 282—300. With Leonard Konle, Fotis Jannidis und Simone Winko.

Highlight Publication: Connecting the Dots. Variables of Literary History and Emotions in German-language Poetry. In: Journal of Computational Literary Studies 2 (2024). With Leonard Konle, Simone Winko and Fotis Jannidis. https://doi.org/10.48694/jcls.3604.