Technoculture #5 Thorsten Ries (Digital forensics)
Channel: Federica Bressan
Date: 2018-10-26

Thorsten Ries is a post-doctoral Marie Curie fellow in History at the University of Sussex, and collaborates as a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher (FWO) with the Institute of Modern German Literature at Ghent University, Belgium.  His main research interests are German literature of the 18th and 20th-21st century (Thomas Kling, Gottfried Benn, Friedrich Hölderlin, Michael Speier and others), theory, methodology and practice of scholarly editing, genetic criticism and textual criticism, digital humanities, literary theory, methodology and discipline history of the “Germanistik”. 
 
He is especially interested in born-digital philology, which puts to work digital forensics to preserve and study born-digital archives. Born-digital archives that let us analyse how literay ways of writing change in the digital era, how writing is affected by the digital tools that we use. Born-digital archives are the material historical record of our present day, which will mean a paradigm shift for literary studies as well as for all historical humanities disciplines.

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