Fotis Jannidis

Fotis Jannidis, born in Frankfurt/Main (Germany), has studied German and English in Trier and Munich. He has written a PhD on Goethe and a Habilitation on the narratolgy of literary characters. Since 2009 he is Professor for Digital Literary Studies at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg; there he is also responsible for a BA/MA program for Digital Humanities. His areas of expertise are computational literary studies, stylometry, and the history of the German novel. He is co-editor of a bilingual journal on literary theory, Journal of Literary Theory. Recent publications:  Co-editor of an introduction to Digital Humanities (2017), co-editor of a new edition of Goethe's Faust (2018) (faustedition.net), with Julia Flanders co-editor of a volume on data modeling in the Digital Humanities (2018), co-author of a study on Burrows Delta (2017) and co-author of a Corpus of Character References in German Novels - DROC (2018). His website: www.jannidis.de.