RTF Colloquium Speaker: Thorsten Ries

Media archives: Digital Forensics, Preservation, Analysis

Thorsten Ries is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. 

Dr. Ries has worked on a historical range of authors, including Friedrich Hölderlin, Gottfried Benn, Thomas Kling, Michael Speier, and others, and is specifically interested in writing processes, scholarly editing, born-digital archives, digital literature and the vast spectrum of digital humanities methods in general. He works on multimodal digital learning concepts focusing on remodeling the language and cultural studies curriculum with digital literacy, digital skills and a digital-first perspective in mind.