Evelyn Gius

Bio

Evelyn Gius is a Professor of Digital Philology and Modern German Literary Studies at the Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies at the Technical University of Darmstadt. She directs the fortext lab, which focuses on research in Digital Humanities, with particular emphasis on Computational Literary Studies and Computational Narratology. Her work centers on manual annotation, narratological analysis, and the segmentation of texts, alongside methodological questions concerning automation and the operationalization of humanities approaches. In addition to her research, she supports the DH community through the collaborative annotation software CATMA and the fortext.net portal, which offers accessible introductions to Digital Humanities methods and tools, and serves as Chair of the Association for Digital Humanities in the German-Speaking Area (DHd) and editor of the diamond open-access publications Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS) and forTEXT Hefte.