Frank Fischer
Professor of Digital Humanities at Freie Universität Berlin (homepage)
Additional Affiliations
Research Interests
- Computational Literary Studies (17th–21st Century Literature, World Literature, European Drama)
- Network Analysis
- AI and the Humanities
- 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
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