Rabea Kleymann
Germanist, research associate with the project Composting. Material Cycles and Reusability in Biology, Literature and Technology
CV
since 2020: Research associate (post-doc) at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin
Convenor of the DHd working group "Digital Humanities Theory" (together with Jonathan D. Geiger), https://dhtheorien.hypotheses.org
Spokesperson of the "Diversity & Inclusion" working group in the Leibniz Postdoc Network (together with Kingsly Chuo Beng), https://leibniz-postdoc.de/people-activities/
2020: PhD at Hamburg University, dissertation project "Formlose Form. Epistemik und Poetik des Aggregats beim späten Goethe"
2016–2019: Scholarship holder of the doctoral program “Geisteswissenschaften”, Universität Hamburg
2015–2018: Research assistant in the projects “efoto“ and “3DH-Three-dimensional dynamic data visualization and exploration for Digital Humanities Research“, Universität Hamburg
2009–2015: German literature and film studies at the Universität Hamburg and the Johannes Gutenberg University 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 Humanities
- Forms of theory formation and work
- Poetics and epistemology of the 18th and 19th century
- History of knowledge and science
Publications
Jan Horstmann, Rabea Kleymann: "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, Wolfenbüttel 2019. DOI: 10.17175/2019_007
Hannah Schwan, Janina Jacke, Rabea Kleymann, Jan-Erik Stange, Marian Dörk: "Narrelations – Visualizing Narrative Levels and their Correlations with Temporal Phenomena" in Digital Humanities Quarterly 13, 3 (2019). http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/13/3/000414/000414.html
Rabea Kleymann: "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.
Rabea Kleymann, Jan-Erik Stange: "Towards Hermeneutic Visualization in Digital Literary Studies" in Digital Humanities Quarterly (to appear). Preliminary version http://www.stereoscope.threedh.net/HermeneuticVisualization.pdf
Lectures
"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. https://fdhl.info/theorytellings/
“Theory is not just a Feature. Disrupting the Flow“, 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“ (with Jan-Erik Stange), Universität Hamburg, December 2018
“A Scalable Reading Approach to Goethe’s Narrative Texts: Investigating Renunciation and Irony” (with Jan Horstmann), EADH 2018 Galway “Data in Digital Humanities”, December 2018
“Perspektiven kritischer Interfaces für die Digital Humanities in 3DH“ (with Jan Christoph Meister, Jan-Erik Stange), DHd 2018 Köln “Kritik der digitalen Vernunft“, March 2018
Courses
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 German language and literature studies at Universität Hamburg in cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
winter term 2016/17 “Entsagung bei Goethe – Lebensphilosophie oder ironisches Konstrukt?“ (with Jan Horstmann, Jan Christoph Meister), Department for German language and literature studies at Universität Hamburg