Dr. Rabea Kleymann
Literary scholar, research associate with the project Diffractive Epistemics: Cultures of Knowledge in the Digital Humanities
CV
- Member of the steering commitee Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd)
- Convenor of the DHd working group Digital Humanities Theory (together with Jonathan D. Geiger)
- Spokesperson of the Diversity & Inclusion working group in the Leibniz Postdoc Network (together with Anne Mucha)
- since 2020 Research associate (post-doc) at Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin
- 2020 PhD at Hamburg University
- 2016–2019 Scholarship holder of the doctoral program “Geisteswissenschaften”, Hamburg University
- 2015–2018 Research assistant in the projects efoto and 3DH-Three-dimensional dynamic data visualization and exploration for Digital Humanities Research, Hamburg University
- 2009–2015 German literature and Film studies in Hamburg and Mainz
Fellowships
- 2018 Research Visiting Scholar in the Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago
- 2020 Willard McCarty Fellowship at King’s College London (postponed)
Research Interests
- Digital Literary Studies
- Forms of Knowledge Production in Digital Humanities Research
- New Materialism & Aesthetic Programming
- Critical Infrastructure Studies
Publications
- Eds.: Theorytellings: Epistemic Narratives in the Digital Humanities, Special Issue, in: Journal of Cultural Analytics (forthcoming 2022), (with Manuel Burghardt, Jonathan D. Geiger, Mareike Schumacher)
- Theory by other means? Prototypes in Digital Humanities Laboratories, in: Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, Christopher Thomson (eds.): Digital Humanities and Laboratories. Oxfordshire: Routledge (forthcoming 2022)
- Formlose Form. Epistemik und Poetik des Aggregats beim späten Goethe. Paderborn, Leiden: Brill/Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2021
- Towards Hermeneutic Visualization in Digital Literary Studies, in: Digital Humanities Quarterly 15, 2 (2021), (with Jan-Erik Stange)
- Über das Erzählwürdige der Theorie in den Digital Humanities, in: ZfL Blog, 08.02.2021
- Softwareprototyp: Zur Theoriemündigkeit experimenteller Software in den Digital Humanities, in: Martin Huber, Sybille Krämer, Claus Pias (eds.): Wovon sprechen wir, wenn wir von Digitalisierung sprechen? Gehalte und Revisionen zentraler Begriffe des Digitalen. Frankfurt am Main: Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, CompaRe 2020, pp. 119-138.
- Alte Fragen, neue Methoden – Philologische und digitale Verfahren im Dialog. Ein Beitrag zum Forschungsdiskurs um Entsagung und Ironie bei Goethe, in: Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaft, (2019), (with Jan Horstmann)
- Narrelations – Visualizing Narrative Levels and their Correlations with Temporal Phenomena, in: Digital Humanities Quarterly 13, 3 (2019), (with Hannah Schwan, Janina Jacke, Jan-Erik Stange, Marian Dörk)
Lectures
- Data Diffraction: A Counternarrative to Integration for Digital Humanities Research, DH 2022 Tokio, July 2022
- Reading Code Diffractively in Digital Humanities Pedagogy, DH Unbound 2022, May 2022
- Wissensmaschinerien: Forschungsdesigns in den Digital Humanities, Digital*Humanities im Gespräch, FU Berlin, May 2022
- Mixed Methods als Denkstil? Forschungsdesigns der Stilometrie in den Digital Humanities, Conference “Stylistics Past and Present: Interdisciplinary Transformations of a Method in the Humanities”, Center for Interdisciplinary Research Bielefeld, October 2021
- Entangled Methods: Diffractive Approaches for the Digital Humanities, New Materialist Informatics 2021, University of Kassel, March 2021
- Theorytellings: Wissenschaftsnarrative in den Digital Humanities – Eine Einführung, Workshop “Theorytellings”, Leipzig University, October 2020
- Theory is not just a Feature. Disrupting the Flow, Workshop “Bug or Feature? An Open Forum to Discuss and Share Current Digital Humanities Research”, Universität Basel, July 2020
- Prototypes as Proto-Theory? A Plea for digital theory formation, DH 2019 Utrecht “Complexities”, July 2019
- Formlose Formen als Begegnungen mit dem Mannigfaltigen – Poetik des Aggregats in Goethes Spätwerk, Symposium of Young Goethe Researchers Weimar, June 2019
- Prototypen als Proto-Theorie? – Plädoyer einer digitalen Theoriebildung, DHd 2019 Mainz and Frankfurt am Main “Digital Humanities: multimedial & multimodal”, March 2019
- Zur Theoriemündigkeit des Softwareprototyps in den Digital Humanities, DFG-funded Symposium “Wovon sprechen wir, wenn wir von Digitalisierung sprechen? Gehalte und Revisionen zentraler Begriffe des Digitalen, Digitalität in den Geisteswissenschaften”, University of Bayreuth, February 2019
- Hermeneutische Visualisierungen für die Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Hamburg, December 2018, (with Jan-Erik Stange)
- A Scalable Reading Approach to Goethe’s Narrative Texts: Investigating Renunciation and Irony, EADH 2018 Galway “Data in Digital Humanities”, December 2018, (with Jan Horstmann)
- Perspektiven kritischer Interfaces für die Digital Humanities in 3DH, DHd 2018 Köln “Kritik der digitalen Vernunft“, March 2018, (with Jan Christoph Meister, Jan-Erik Stange)
Courses
- summer term 2022 Daten, Algorithmen, Software. Kulturen der Digitalität verstehen, Department of Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- winter term 2021 Kultur- und Wissensgeschichte von Infrastrukturen, Department of Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- summer term 2021 Wider den Methodenzwang: Computergestützte Kulturanalysen in den Digital Humanities, Department of Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- winter term 2020 Der kritische Posthumanismus in den Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften, Department of Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- summer term 2017 Digitale Korpusanalyse: vom Distant zum Close Reading (with Jan Christoph Meister, Jan-Erik Stange), Department for Languages, Literature and Media, Universität Hamburg in cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
- winter term 2016 Entsagung bei Goethe – Lebensphilosophie oder ironisches Konstrukt? (with Jan Horstmann, Jan Christoph Meister), Department for Languages, Literature and Media, Universität Hamburg, Universität Hamburg