Svenja Guhr

Svenja Guhr is a Bellwether Postdoctoral Scholar at the UC Berkeley School of Information, where her research bridges applied natural language processing and literary studies. She focuses on the operationalization of literary phenomena, developing systematic methods to measure concepts like “sound,” “loudness,” and “suspense” in multilingual fiction. Previously a researcher at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, and a visiting scholar at the Stanford Literary Lab, she now leads a project investigating the modeling of suspense in American and British short fiction.