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Nils Kellner serves as a Researcher at the University of Rostock's Institute for German Studies within the Faculty of Philosophy. Since April 2023, he has worked as a Research Associate in the DFG-funded project "CANSpiN" (Computational Approaches to Narrative Space in 19th and 20th Century Novels), contributing to both research and teaching in Digital Humanities.
He completed his academic training at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, earning his first state examination in primary school teaching in September 2019, followed by a Master's degree in Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies in March 2023. His educational background combines literary scholarship with language expertise in German and Spanish literature.
Kellner's research centers on computational literary studies with emphasis on spatial analysis in 19th-20th century literature. His work spans Digital Humanities methodology, European Romanticism, German-Spanish literary relations, and ecological perspectives on space and landscape in literature. Within the CANSpiN project, he specializes in XML/TEI-based text processing, developing annotation systems for spatial entities, and comparative analysis of German and Spanish literary corpora.
His publication record shows a focused contribution to digital literary studies, particularly in computational spatial analysis across languages and historical periods. Recent works include annotation guidelines, workshop reports on spatially referential expressions, and methodological approaches to narrative space analysis.
At the University of Rostock, Kellner teaches advanced seminars reflecting his research interests, including courses on digital spatial analysis of 19th-century novels, emotions in literature around 1800, ecologically oriented literary studies, and Romanticism. His teaching integrates traditional literary scholarship with innovative computational approaches.
As part of the interdisciplinary CANSpiN project team, Kellner collaborates with Marc Lemke and Ulrike Henny-Krahmer, focusing on preparing German and Spanish sub-corpora from the 19th century and developing methods for automatic annotation of spatial elements in literary narratives. His office is located in Room 106 of the Torhaus at Gertrudenstraße 11, 18057 Rostock.
