Svenja Guhr

Svenja Guhr is a postdoctoral researcher at the fortext lab (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany) and has an academic background in German literature, Romance linguistics, and Digital Humanities. As a computational literary studies scholar, her recently completed PhD project focused on the operationalization and analysis of sound and loudness as narratological phenomena in 19th and early 20th century German-language literary prose. Her monograph "Raise Your Voice - Character Sound in German-language Fiction" will be published in 2025 in the Metzler book series Digital Literary Studies by Springer Nature. Since 2022, she has been a visiting researcher at the Stanford Literary Lab, where she is working on projects on the detection and analysis of domestic space and suspense in 19th-century British fiction.