Discussion with Michaela Mahlberg
Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Institute for Data Science and the School of Information
An in-person, collaborative deep dive with Michaela Mahlberg, as a follow-up to her Bellwether Lecture, “Making Sense of the World through Language and Stories: A Digital Humanities Perspective.”
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Speaker
Michaela Mahlberg
Michaela Mahlberg is a professor of digital humanities and Alexander-von-Humboldt Professor at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, and an honorary professor of corpus linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is also the editor of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, the president of the international Dickens Society, and the host of the Life and Language podcast. With her team, she has developed the CLiC web app for the digital reading of fiction.
As a corpus linguist, she is interested in language as a social phenomenon and the way in which we use language to understand and shape the world we live in. A large part of her research focuses on the language of Dickens’s fiction, literary linguistics, and discourse analysis.
Mahlberg studied English and mathematics at the University of Bonn and the University of Exeter, United Kingdom. She completed a doctorate in English linguistics at Saarland University in Saarbrücken. She previously taught English linguistics at the University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy), Liverpool Hope University (UK), the University of Liverpool (UK) and the University of Nottingham (UK).
Contact
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Accessibility
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