Katrin Dennerlein

Katrin Dennerlein is Visiting Max Kade Professor at University of Illinois Chicago and Professor at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. She researches German drama using computational methods and historical approaches.

Dr. Dennerlein's work bridges literary hermeneutics and digital analysis, focusing on emotion patterns in drama and comedy history. Her DFG-funded project 'Emotions in Drama' developed computational emotion classification techniques for German plays from 1650-1815. Current projects examine ethical dimensions of emotions in historical drama.

She teaches courses on migratory narratives and computational analysis of German drama. Dr. Dennerlein co-organizes the conference 'Rewriting Literary History With Algorithms' with Patrick Fortmann, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue between literary studies and computer science.

Her publications include Materialien und Medien der Komödiengeschichte (2021) on comedy circulation between Vienna and Hamburg, and computational studies of emotion in stage directions. Dr. Dennerlein serves on program committees for digital humanities conferences and contributes to annotation guidelines for historical texts.