Profile

Professional career

• since 08/2022
  Professor (W3) of Computational Humanities, Leipzig University
• 03/2018 - 07/2022
  Junior Professor of Computational Humanities, Leipzig University
• 11/2014 - 02/2018
  Lecturer (AR a.Z.), Chair of Media Informatics, University of Regensburg; Head of the Digital Humanities research group (www.dhregensburg.de)
• 04/2010 - 10/2014
  Research fellow, Chair of Media Informatics, University of Regensburg
• 04/2009 - 03/2010
  Lecturer (LfbA), Chair of Information Science, University of Regensburg; Research Assistant, Department for Communication, University of Regensburg
• 02/2009 - 03/2009
  Research assistant (WHK), Chair of Media Science, University of Regensburg
• 10/2008 - 01/2009
  Research fellow, Chair of Media Informatics, University of Regensburg

Education

• 09/2014
  PhD thesis (summa cum laude) in Information Science: "Engineering Annotation Usability – Toward Usability Patterns for Linguistic Annotation Tools", University of Regensburg
• 04/2003 - 08/2008
  Magister's degree in Information Science, English Linguistics, General Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics, University of Regensburg
• 06/2002
  Abitur, Veit-Höser-Gymnasium, Bogen

Panel Memberships

• since 01/2022
  Speaker of the Forum for Digital Humanities Leipzig (fdhl.info)
• since 05/2018
  Speaker of the Informatik und Digital Humanities division of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) (https://fg-infdh.gi.de/)

My research focus is located at the intersection of questions posed by cultural studies and the humanities and how they can be answered using computational methods. This undertaking can essentially be broken down into two central parts: the indexing, modelling and representation of humanities research objects and the computational analysis of digital data.

The following topics in particular have been central to my research in recent years:

• Digital Environmental Humanities, especially interdisciplinary approaches that combine questions and methods of literary studies and biodiversity research, utilising NLP and IR methods
• Immersive & Interactive Humanities, i.e. AR/VR/XR, eyetracking, tangible interfaces and other HCI technologies in the employ of digital humanities
• Text Mining & NLP, in particular current methods from the subfields of text reuse detection, text similarity und sentiment analysis
• Distant Viewing & Video Analytics to facilitate the computational analysis of news footage, movies and TV series
• DH Scientometrics & Theory of DH, i.e. the measurement of disciplinary boundaries, academic research practices and their theoretical foundations, with particular regard to the discipline of digital und computational Humanities
• Computational Game Studies, particularly methods to facilitate an empirical, multimodal analysis of video games
• Computational Spatial Humanities, i.e. the computational analysis of spatial data in the context of humanities research

As course coordinator for the Digital Humanities B.Sc. and M.Sc. programs, Manuel Burghardt's classes cover the entire breadth of his field and entail a wide variety of topics. In teaching, he puts a particular focus on the theoretical and operational foundations of digital and computational humanities. Additionally, he also puts an emphasis on research-oriented classes, which cover a wide array of topics and current research trends in digital and computational humanities. Manuel Burghardt's classes are largely based on the principles of constructivistic teaching and therefore feature a high degree of classroom interaction.

• Introduction to Digital Humanities

  Lecture (Bachelor)

  
  

  Taught in the following semesters:

  WS 2021/22, WS 2022/23

• Introduction to Digital Philology

  Lecture (Bachelor)

  
  

  Taught in the following semesters:

  SS 2021, SS 2022

• Research Seminar Digital Humanities

  Seminar (Bachelor)

  
  

  Taught in the following semesters:

  WS 2019/20, WS 2020/21, WS 2022/23

• Methods and Applications in Digital Humanities

  Lecture, theoretical tutorial, practical tutorial (Master)

  
  

  Taught in the following semesters:

  WS 2018/19, WS 2019/20, WS 2020/21

• Praktikum Digital Humanities

  Seminar and practical tutorial (Master)

  
  

  Taught in the following semesters:

  WS 2020/21, WS 2021/22

• Bachelor- / Masterseminar Digital Humanities

  Seminar (Bachelor, Master)

  
  

  Taught in the following semesters:

  WS 2019/20, SS 2020, WS 2020/21, WS 2021/22, WS 2022/23

• Computational Methods for Literary Studies

  Seminar (Bachelor)

  
  

  Taught in the following semester:

  SS 2018

• Citizen Science

  Seminar and tutorial (Master)

  
  

  Taught in the following semester:

  SS 2019

• Drama Mining and Film Analysis

  Seminar und tutorial (Bachelor)

  
  

  Taught in the following semesters:

  SS 2019, SS 2020

• Crowdsourced Translation

  Seminar und tutorial (Master)

  
  

  Taught in the following semester:

  SS 2021

• Digital Methods of Collection Research: Challenges and Opportunities

  Seminar and tutorial (Bachelor)

  
  

  Taught in the following semester:

  SS 2021

• Digital Humanities, Game Studies and the Language of Gaming

  Seminar and tutorial (Bachelor)

  
  

  Taught in the following semester:

  SS 2022

• Tool Time - The History and Role of Research Software in Digital Humanities

  Seminar and tutorial (Bachelor)

  
  

  Taught in the following semester:

  SS 2022

• Recognising and Understanding Disinformation in News Footage – Foundations of Extracting and Visualising Multimodal Information

  Seminar (Master)

  
  

  Taught in the following semester:

  WS 2022/23