The project on “The Theory and Practice of Explanatory Annotation in the Digital Humanities” was initiated by Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer and Prof. Dr. Angelika Zirker in 2011 as a student and peer-learning project; the research project has developed since then. They both teach English Literature at Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen (Germany). The project team comprises three doctoral students (Leonie Kirchhoff, Sandra Wetzel, Timo Stösser) and a number of peer mentors (currently Svenja Brank, Hannah Braun, and Sophia Smolinski).
Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer
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Prof. Dr. Angelika Zirker
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Leonie Kirchhoff, M.A.Project assistantLeonie Kirchhoff’s doctoral thesis is concerned with annotating metaphysical poetry, with special focus on annotating as a didactic method in university seminars. She is a member of the Tübingen School of Education (TüSE) and teaches for the English department at Tübingen University. Sandra Wetzel, M.Ed./M.A.Project assistantSandra Wetzel is a doctoral student at the CRC1391: Different Aesthetics (Tübingen University), writing her PhD thesis on co-creativity in early modern English prefaces and dedications. In her project, she also works with digital methods as heuristic tool for text analysis. Timo Stösser, M.A.
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Student annotation groups
The current peer mentors for the project’s student annotation groups are:
- Sophia Smolinski (student annotation group for poetry)
- Hannah Braun (student annotation group for Beaumont and Fletcher’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle)
- Svenja Brank (student annotation group for Charles Dickens’ The Chimes)
Former project assistants:
- Miriam Lahrsow
Former peer mentors:
- Susanne Riecker
- Lisa Ebert
- Lena Moltenbrey
- Maximilian Faul
- Johannes Krickl
- Jens Theessen
- Miriam Lahrsow
- Jessica Schuchert
- Natalia Christoforou
- Lara Täuber
- Sontje Schulenburg
- Yasemin Caglar
- Valerie Niedenführ
- Sandra Wetzel