Text and Language Lab

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Text and Language Research Group

The Text and Language Lab at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg (FAU), led by Prof. Michaela Mahlberg, is an interdisciplinary research group within DHSS.

Text and Language Research Group

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Recent Posts

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Katrin Rohrbacher has received an FAU Emerging Talents Initiative (FAU ETI) grant for her new project, Nature in Motion: A Computational Study of Environmental Representation in Travel Writing. Travelogues describe movement through space, landscape and weather, and the traveller’s experience of them. They therefore offer a particularly revealing…Weiterlesen

From 27 to 31 July 2026, colleagues from the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS) joined the international Digital Humanities community in Daejeon, South Korea, contributing to the AVinDH Special Interest Group’s pre-conference programme and presenting research across audiovisual analysis, computational literary studies and digital social research. The 36th annual Digital Humanities conference…Weiterlesen

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Prof. Dr. Michaela Mahlberg

Department spokesperson

Dr. Katrin Rohrbacher

Research Associate (Postdoc)

Dr.  Ismail Barakat

Media & Research Communications Producer

Janno Reincke, M. A.

Research Assistant (PhD student)

James Tauber , M. A. 

Research Assistant (PhD student)

Andreas Wagner , M. Sc.

Research Assistant (PhD student)

Kinshuk Dayal Saraswat

Student Assistant


Conferences

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Publications

Our research group publishes work across digital humanities, computational linguistics, and related fields. Explore our latest publications and browse our complete publication record.

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