Thomas Weitin

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Thomas Weitin (* 1971 in Karl-Marx-Stadt , today Chemnitz) is a German literary scholar and professor of digital German studies .

Life

Weitin studied German language and literature , philosophy and journalism at the University of Hamburg from 1991 to 1997 . Subsequently , he received his doctorate in 2002 in the field of modern German literature within the framework of the DFG - Graduate School Coding of Violence in Media Change at the Humboldt University in Berlin on the subject of motives and structures of violence with Heiner Müller and in the early work of Ernst Jünger . He stayed as a postdoctoral fellow in the graduate school until 2004 and then moved to the German Institute of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster as a research assistant with Detlef Kremer .

In 2007, Weitin accepted a position at the University of Konstanz , where he initially worked as a junior and later as a university professor for modern German literature in a European context . In 2008 he completed his habilitation in Münster with a thesis on testimony in literature and law . In 2015, Weitin received an offer from the University of Graz , which he declined in favor of a competing offer to the Technical University of Darmstadt , where he has since taught as a professor for German and digital literary studies .

Weitin was a Fellow of the Max Planck Society at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main and received the Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA . He was visiting professor at Tongji University in Shanghai (2010) and at the University of California in Berkeley (2014). In 2019, Weitin was offered a professorship for Digital Humanities and German Literature at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, which he refused.

Research priorities

Weitin represents the approach of digital literary studies in research and teaching. This youngest field of philology is one of the scientific advancements of the digital humanities , which are characterized by the combination of conventional and digital methods. Research questions are abstracted on the basis of detailed reading, literary historical sources study and cultural studies contextual competence in such a way that they can be operationalized for the use of digital tools . This approach is used in both single text and corpus analysis. Weitin's most important field of research is the relationship between law and literature.

Publications (selection)

Monographs:

  • 2003: Necessary violence. The modern age Ernst Jüngers and Heiner Müller (= Gabriele Brandstetter, Ursula Renner, Günter Schnitzler (eds.): Cultura , Volume 34). Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau, ISBN 978-3-7930-9348-0 . Dissertation at the same time.
  • 2009: witness. The right of literature . Fink, Munich / Paderborn, ISBN 978-3-7705-4830-9 . At the same time habilitation.
  • 2010: Law and Literature (= Detlef Kremer and Herbert Kraft (Eds.): Literary Studies. Theory & Examples , Volume 10). Aschendorff, Münster, ISBN 978-3-402-14305-6 .
  • 2013: Free reason. Human dignity according to Goethe's Faust . Konstanz University Press, Paderborn, ISBN 978-3-86253-044-1 .
  • 2015: with Bijan Fateh-Moghadam, Thomas Gutmann , Michael Neumann: Secular taboos . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-95757-094-9 .

Corpora:

  • 2016: Fully digitized body. The German Novellenschatz. Edited by Paul Heyse, Hermann Kurz. 24 volumes. 1871-1876. Darmstadt / Constance.

Essays:

  • 2015: Digital Literature Studies . In: German quarterly for literary studies and intellectual history. 89.4 (2015). Special issue on the situation of literary studies. Current inventory and perspectives , pp. 651–656.
  • 2016: with Thomas Gilli and Nico Kunkel: laying out and calculating. On the relationship between hermeneutical and quantitative procedures in literary studies . In: Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics. Issue 181: Labor , doi : 10.1007 / s41244-016-0004-8 , pp. 103-115.
  • 2016: selection and distinction. Paul Heyses and Hermann Kurz's German Novell Treasure as archive, literary history and corpus . In: Daniela Gretz, Nicolas Pethes (Hrsg.): Archive / fictions. Method of archiving in literature and culture of the long 19th century. Rombach, Freiburg, pp. 385-408, ISBN 978-3-79309-843-0 .
  • 2017: Scalable Reading . In: Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics . Issue 185: Scalable Reading , doi : 10.1007 / s41244-017-0048-4 , pp. 1-6.
  • 2017: with Katharina Herget: Falkentopics. About some problems with topic modeling of literary texts . In: Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics . Issue 185: Scalable Reading , doi : 10.1007 / s41244-017-0049-3 , pp. 29-48.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Thomas Weitin. Curriculum vitae . In: tu-darmstadt.de . Retrieved on July 4, 2017 (PDF; 16.9 kB).
  2. ^ Academic résumé of Thomas Weitin. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Digital Humanities Cooperation: Our Philosophy . In: digitalhumanitiescooperation.de . Retrieved July 17, 2017.
  4. ↑ Review by Alexander Košenina on "Law and Literature (= Detlef Kremer and Herbert Kraft (Ed.): Literary Studies. Theory & Examples, Volume 10)" . In: buecher.de . Retrieved July 20, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Weitin, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Karl Marx City