Investigating absorbing stories
I am currently available to supervise MA students’ thesis work or research internships on Digital Social Reading, Narrative Absorption, Literary Reading and Well-Being, Shared Reading, Reading Habits, or general Empirical Literary Studies.
I am an assistant professor of Empirical Literary Studies at the University of Basel’s Digital Humanities Lab. My research is focused on narrative absorption during literary reading, and the effects of (shared) reading on well-being and reading promotion. This semester I am teaching a course on Digital Social Reading at the University of Basel. Check out my open access online course on Experiment Design and Statistics using R. I am also the president of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature.
On this website you can find all of my publications, updates on my current research project SHARD (Shared Reading in the Age of Digitalization), everything you need to know about the Story World Absorption Scale and my personal absorbing reads of the last couple of years.