Coordination of the center, research and project management, academy cooperation. Focus: digital editions, theory of digital humanities.
ORCID
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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 is now a coordinator in the management of the CCeH. 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. Between 2015–2018 she was a PhD student with a fast-track scholarship at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne and defended her thesis, supervised by Prof. Manfred Thaller, in Januar 2021. The published monograph of her dissertation was awarded with the Offermann-Hergarten Prize by the University of Cologne in 2024.
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 (selection)
T. Gengnagel. 2024. Digital Scholarly Editions Beyond Text: Modelling Art, Film, and Everything in Between (Computing in Art and Architecture; vol. 5), Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net, DOI: 10.11588/arthistoricum.1132 [based on doctoral dissertation].
T. Gengnagel. 2022 / 2024. “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, DOI: 10.17175/sb005_011_v2.
P. Hegel, T. Gengnagel, K. Hensen, K. Lemke, G. Brüning. 2024. “The interoperable edition ‘sub specie durationis'”, in: editio 38/1, pp. 135–146, DOI: 10.1515/editio-2024-0008.
T. Gengnagel, F. Jannidis, R. Kleymann, J. Schröter, H. Zinsmeister. 2024. “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, pp. 81–85, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10698308.
T. Gengnagel, S. Lang, N. Probst, A. Gerber; S.-M. Dang, T. Duan, T. Grallert, J. Keck, J. Nyhan. 2023. »Open DH? Mapping Blind Spots«, in: Book of Abstracts der 9. Jahrestagung des Verbandes der Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd 2023), ed. by A. Busch and P. Trilcke, Luxemburg and Trier, pp. 77–80. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7688632.
Presentations (selection)
27 June 2025, »Eine neue Philosophie des Als Ob. Modelltheoretische Überlegungen aus den Digital Humanities« (Workshop System.loadLibrary(): Epistemologische Affordanzen digitaler Literatur), Bochum
12 June 2025, »DH Epistemics« (Hengstberger-Symposium Disciplinary Transformations? Humanities Impact on Reshaping the Digital Humanities ), Heidelberg
5 November 2024, “(Generative) Artificial Intelligence as a Challenge for the Digital Humanities” (panel discussion with P. M. Näger, L. Franken; Workshop (Generative) AI for Cultural and Textual Data), Weimar
21 October 2024, “Zum Scheitern verurteilt? Über Big-Tech-Blütenträume, Silicon Valley und die Niederungen der digitalen Geisteswissenschaften” (lecture series Einblicke in die Digital Humanities), Bern
23 September 2024, “Walzerkrieg und Maschinengott: Zur Edition multimedialer Werkkomplexe am Beispiel von Film und Musik” (Keynote, Edirom Summer School), Paderborn