Coordination of the center, research and project management, academy cooperation. Focus: digital editions, theory of digital humanities.
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CV
Tessa Gengnagel has been employed at the CCeH since October 2013. Originally employed as a student assistant in the project management of the Marie Curie ITN DiXiT (Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network) while studying for her Master’s degree, she now works as a postdoc in the management of the CCeH. From 2015–2018, she was a fast-track PhD scholar at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne and completed her doctorate under Prof. Manfred Thaller in the field of historical-cultural information processing (defense January 2021). She completed her B.A. in History and Latin Philology of the Middle Ages at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in 2009–2012. There she worked as a student assistant at the Department of Medieval Latin Philology, the Department of History and the FRIAS. She then studied European Multimedia Arts & Cultural Heritage Studies for her M.A. at the University of Cologne and the Karl-Franzens-University Graz.
In addition to her work at CCeH, she is also involved in the DHd working groups Theory and Empowerment. She is a founding member of the Digital Medievalist Postgraduate Committee and co-founder and former editor, host and producer of the podcast Coding Codices.
publications
Monographs
Digital Scholarly Editions Beyond Text: Modelling Art, Film, and Everything in Between (Computing in Art and Architecture; vol. 5), Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net, 2024, DOI: 10.11588/arthistoricum.1132 [doctoral dissertation].
Editorships
(forthcoming) Special Issue of it – Information Technology (De Gruyter), focus on “Kleine Fächer Digital” [together with H. Mara, C. Schröter].
Volumes 16 and 17 of RIDE (Review Journal for Digital Editions and Resources), focus on “FAIR criteria”, in cooperation with NFDI/Text+, 2023–2024, https://ride.i-d-e.de/issues/issue-16 / https://ride.i-d-e.de/issues/issue-17 [together with F. Neuber, D. Schulz].
Essays and reviews
(forthcoming) “Die interoperable Edition sub specie durationis“, in: editio 38 (2024) [together with P. Hegel, K. Hensen, K. Lemke, G. Brüning].
(forthcoming) “Digitale Editionen jenseits des Textes: Zur multimedialen Überlieferungsvarianz von Bild- und Filmwerken”, in: 4D: Dimensions | Disciplines | Digitality | Data (Computing in Art and Architecture; vol. 6), ed. by Lisa Dieckmann, Bettina Pfleging, Georg Schelbert and Thorsten Wübbena, Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net.
“Vom Topos des Scheiterns als konstituierender Kraft: Ein Essay über Erkenntnisprozesse in den Digital Humanities”, in: Fabrikation von Erkenntnis: Experimente in den Digital Humanities (Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften; Sonderband 5), ed. by Manuel Burghardt, Lisa Dieckmann, Timo Steyer, Peer Trilcke, Niels-Oliver Walkowski, Joëlle Weis and Ulrike Wuttke, Wolfenbüttel 2022, https://doi.org/10.17175/sb005_011.
“The Discourse about Modelling: Some Observations from the Outside”, in: Historical Social Research Supplement 31 (2018), 226-30, https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.suppl.31.2018.226-230.
“The ‘Beta Dilemma’: A Review of the Faust Edition”, in: RIDE 7 (2017), DOI: https://doi.org/10.18716/ride.a.7.3. Review : Anne Bohnenkamp et al. (ed.): Historisch-kritische Faustedition, Beta-Version 2, Frankfurt am Main / Weimar / Würzburg 2017, URL: http://beta.faustedition.net/.
Conference abstracts
“Bedeutung in Zeiten großer Sprachmodelle”, in: Book of Abstracts of the 10th Annual Conference of the Association of Digital Humanities in German-speaking Countries (DHd 2024), ed. by J. Weis, E. Bunout and T. Haider, Passau, 2024, pp. 81-85, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10698308 [together with F. Jannidis, R. Kleymann, J. Schröter, H. Zinsmeister].
“Automatisierung und CI/CD in digitalen Editionen am Beispiel des Conciliator”, in: Book of Abstracts of the 10th Annual Conference of the Association of Digital Humanities in German-speaking Countries (DHd 2024), ed. by J. Weis, E. Bunout and T. Haider, Passau, 2024, pp. 116-121, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10698405 [together with O. Schrader, S. Gassmann].
“Collaboration as Necessity: Institutional Support for Digital Humanities Research”, in: Digital Humanities 2023: Book of Abstracts (DH2023), ed. by A. Baillot et al., Graz, 2024, pp. 270-272, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8107798 [together with J. Blumtritt, J. Horstmann, C. Neuefeind].
“20 Years of Digital Medievalist – A Reflection on the Development of a Community”, in: Digital Humanities 2023: Book of Abstracts (DH2023), ed. by A. Baillot et al., Graz, 2024, pp. 608-609, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8107542 [together with R. Bleier, L. Borek, A. Campagnolo, F. Fischer, T. Hodel].
“Open DH? Mapping Blind Spots”, in: Book of Abstracts of the 9th Annual Conference of the Association of Digital Humanities in German-speaking Countries (DHd 2023), ed. by A. Busch and P. Trilcke, Luxembourg and Trier, 2023, pp. 77-80. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7688632 [together with S. Lang, N. Probst, A. Gerber; S.-M. Dang, T. Duan, T. Grallert, J. Keck, J. Nyhan].
“Beginen in Köln: Von der Textdatenbank zur zeitgemäßen digitalen Auszeichnung und Analyse”, in: Book of Abstracts der 9. Jahrestagung des Verbandes der Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd 2023), ed. by A. Busch and P. Trilcke, Luxembourg and Trier, 2023, pp. 360-361. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7688632 [together with J. Bigalke, J. Blumtritt].
“Offene Editionen – Die Task Area Editionen im NFDI-Konsortium Text+”, in: Book of Abstracts der 9. Jahrestagung des Verbandes der Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd 2023), ed. by A. Busch and P. Trilcke, Luxembourg and Trier, 2023, pp. 404-406. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7688632 [together with J. Blumtritt, E. Cugliana, N. Geißler, P. Hegel, K. Hensen, J. Hörnschemeyer, C. Kudella, K. Lemke, H. Lordick, F. Neuber, C. Neuefeind, D. Schulz, M. Seltmann, M. Sievers].
“Early Stage Digital Medievalist Subcommittee: Vernetzen, entgrenzen, Spielräume schaffen”, in: Book of Abstracts of the 7th Annual Conference of the Association of Digital Humanities in German-speaking Countries (DHd 2020), ed. by C. Schöch et al., Paderborn, 2020, pp. 313-314, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3666690 [together with Hannah Busch and Daniela Schulz].
Video essays
“Digital Humanities, or: The Broken Record of Everything” (February 19, 2022), Colloquium Phenomenology of Digital Humanities, FU Berlin, https://youtu.be/G3Nn8gw81cA / https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6241218.
“A Tale of Two Cultures: On Transatlantic Discourse in the Digital Humanities” (April 15, 2021), Digital Humanities Colloquium, University of Cologne, https://youtu.be/6MzoNEKsgcw / https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6344038.
Miscellaneous
“FAIR Principles in Digital Scholarly Editions”, Version 1.1 (2022), <https://ride.i-d-e.de/fair-criteria-editions/> [together with Frederike Neuber and Daniela Schulz].
Talks
(Selection; see also the conference abstracts)
| November 29, 2024 | »Beginen, Papsturkunden, Medizin: Zur aktuellen Forschung mit digitalen Ansätzen« (ZEMAK Research Colloquium) | Cologne |
| October 21, 2024 | »Zum Scheitern verurteilt? Über Big-Tech-Blütenträume, Silicon Valley und die Niederungen der digitalen Geisteswissenschaften« (Lecture Series Einblicke in die Digital Humanities) | Bern |
| September 23, 2024 | »Walzerkrieg und Maschinengott: Zur Edition multimedialer Werkkomplexe am Beispiel von Film und Musik« (Keynote, Edirom Summer School) | Paderborn |
| July 18, 2024 | Evening talk as part of a workshop on science podcasts | Potsdam |
| June 10, 2024 | “The Ambivalence of Humanistic Knowledge Production in Times of Digital Upheaval” (Uncertainty-Talks) | Bielefeld |
| February 20, 2024 | Panel discussion »Offenes Mittelalter« (Workshop by the Netzwerk Offenes Mittelalter) | Darmstadt |
| December 12, 2023 | Response to Prof. Dr. Reinold Schmücker’s »Mutmaßungen über den digitalen Wandel« (Philosophie kontrovers) | Cologne |
| December 1, 2023 | “On the possibilities and challenges of digital knowledge representations” (Workshop Kulturen der Heilkunde des Mittelalters in interdisziplinärer Perspektive) | Bonn |
| November 16, 2023 | »Kollationen: Gespräche über Editionen – Digital und/oder gedruckt?« (Roundtable, Leopoldina) | Halle (Saale) |
| July 3, 2023 | “Podcasts, Blogs, and Video Essays: Digital Medieval Studies for the Masses?” (Roundtable IMC) | Leeds |
| December 8, 2022 | “The Future in Our Bones: On Heidegger, Cybernetics, and the Origins of Theory (in Humanities Computing)” (Seminar) | Lausanne |
| August 25, 2022 | “Digital Critical Edition of Peter of Abano’s Conciliator” (SIEPM) [together with C. Kaiser, O. Schrader, S. Gassmann] | Paris |
| June 28, 2022 | “Digital Scholarly Editions Beyond Text: On the Principles of a Superstructural Approach” (Workshop Diagrammatic Digital Editions) | Haifa |
| June 17, 2022 | »Mustererkennung: Zur Frage der digitalen Repräsentation visueller Überlieferungsvarianz am Beispiel mittelalterlicher Bildprogramme« (Workshop Wiederholung und Konventionalität in der Kunst) | Cologne |
| February 19, 2022 | “Digital Humanities, or: The Broken Record of Everything” (colloquium) | Berlin |
| December 8, 2021 | »Die Tradition der Textkritik und ihre digitale Zukunft« (Lecture) | Paderborn |
| September 29, 2021 | »Eine Frage der Moral? Über das Fortschrittsnarrativ der Digital Humanities und seine historische Bedingtheit« (Untold Stories workshop, theater studies) | Cologne |
| July 5, 2021 | “Early Career Researchers in Digital Medieval Studies: A Round Table Discussion” (Roundtable IMC) | Leeds |