Workshop with: Dr. Daniel Knuchel -German & Scandinavian Studies, Universität Zürich
The workshop, entitled ‘Datenphilologie und Diagrammatik: Operationen des Lesens in den Digital Humanities’ will be held in German and will be interesting and relevant to graduate students and faculty alike. Everyone is welcome!
Dr. Daniel Knuchel’s biography
Daniel Knuchel studied German Studies as well as Film and Media Studies at the Universities of Zurich and Barcelona. He completed his doctoral studies in Linguistics at the Universities of Zurich and Heidelberg. His doctoral dissertation examined contemporary conceptualizations of HIV/AIDS in German-speaking Switzerland and developed a corpus-pragmatic approach for the analysis of large-scale textual data. The dissertation will be published under the title Diskurslatenz: Korpuspragmatische Analysen zu HIV/AIDS in der Ära der Postinfektiosität.
After completing his PhD, he was appointed Oberassistent (equivalent to a non-tenure-track Assistant Professor) at the University of Zurich. Since 2024, he has also been serving as a substitute Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Geneva. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at the Universities of Zurich, Heidelberg, Basel, Geneva, and Skopje in corpus linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, discourse studies, cultural linguistics, and the history of the German language. His research focuses on digital methods, language use and writing practices in digital contexts, and the modern history of the German language, with a particular emphasis on the discoursive construction of HIV/AIDS, the communication and media history of the “Züri brännt” movement of the 1980s, as well as on the linguistic and narrative construction of sexual practices.
