Frank Fischer
Professor of Digital Humanities at Freie Universität Berlin (homepage)
Additional Affiliations
Research Interests
- 18th–21st Century Literature, Computational Literary Studies, World Literature, European Drama, Network Analysis, Artificial Neural Networks for the Study of Literature, Linked Open Data, Research Infrastructures for Literary Studies
Current Main Projects
Finished Projects
Education
- PhD in Literature (University of Jena), 2012
- MA in Computer Science and German Studies (University of Leipzig), 2003
- 2017–2021: Director of DARIAH-EU (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities), Berlin – Paris – Dublin – The Hague
- 2016–2021: Ass. Prof. of Digital Humanities at Higher School of Economics, Moscow
- 2013–2016: Digital Humanities Coordinator at University of Göttingen
- 2009–2013: PhD student at Forschungszentrum »Laboratorium Aufklärung«, University of Jena
- 2007–2009: Research associate at Leipzig University Library (DFG-funded)
- 2005: Copy editor of the 21st edition of the Brockhaus Encyclopaedia at Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig – Mannheim
- 2003: Internship at Goethe Institute, Buenos Aires
- 2001–2002: Middlesex University London (Erasmus Programme)
- 1997–2003: MA student of Computer Science and German Studies at University of Leipzig
Visiting Scholarships
- Aarhus University, 2018
- Information School at University of Sheffield, 2017
- École normale supérieure, Paris, 2009
Profiles