Coordination of the center, research and project management, academy cooperation. Focus: digital editions, theory of digital humanities.
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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. 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 and 2018, she held a fast-track PhD scholarship from the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne. She defended her thesis, supervised by Prof. Manfred Thaller, in January 2021. It was published as a monograph in February 2024 and awarded with the Offermann-Hergarten-Prize by the University of Cologne.
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)
November 23, 2024, “Superstructures” (Conference Edition of Film Music – Challenges of Multimediality), Frankfurt
November 5, 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
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
June 10, 2024, “The Ambivalence of Humanistic Knowledge Production in Times of Digital Upheaval”(Uncertainty-Talks), Bielefeld