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Marion Darilek is a researcher at the University of Tübingen's Department of German Studies within the Faculty of Humanities, specializing in medieval German literature and historical semantics. She serves as a research associate in Collaborative Research Center 1391 "Other Aesthetics" and has previously held research positions at the University of Stuttgart and Tübingen's German Department.
Her research interests focus on the historical semantics of aesthetic concepts, particularly the lexemes suozi and süeze (sweet/sweetness) in Old and Middle High German literature. She employs computational philological methods to analyze aesthetic vocabulary across different text types and discourses, with additional expertise in animal epics, cultural animal studies, German-French literary relations, and the reception of medieval literature in contemporary comics.
Her publication record shows consistent scholarly output since 2009, with increasing emphasis on digital humanities approaches since 2018. Recent work demonstrates sophisticated integration of quantitative lexical analysis with qualitative case studies, particularly examining how aesthetic concepts function as focal points for literary reflection across historical contexts.
- Scholarship from German Academic Scholarship Foundation
- Doctoral scholarship from State Graduate Fund of Baden-Württemberg
- Doctoral scholarship from Protestant Study Association Villigst eV
- Athene Grant holder for promotion of female researchers
Darilek has organized numerous academic conferences and workshops, including the 2023 "Zwischen Allegorese und Agency" conference in Munich and the 2022 "Erotische Zweifelsfälle" panel at the German Studies Conference. She has secured funding through the University of Tübingen's Institutional Strategy (ZUK 63) and the Collaborative Research Center 1391. Her teaching includes seminars on medieval literature, German language history, and specific texts like the Nibelungenlied and Reinhart Fuchs across multiple academic terms from 2015-2024.
She leads the research project on the semantics of sweetness within SFB 1391 and collaborates extensively with scholars including Manuel Braun, Annette Gerok-Reiter, and Matthias Däumer. Her work bridges traditional philological methods with digital approaches, particularly through computational annotation of historical semantics.
