MMag. Dr.
Doris Gruber
doris.gruber(at)oeaw.ac.at
+43-1-51581-7329
Doris Gruber is a member of the research unit Digital Historiography and Editions, since July 2022 as part of the project Ottoman Nature in Travelogues, 1501–1850: A Digital Analysis (ONiT) funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
Brief Biography
Doris Gruber studied history and art history at the University of Graz and at Sciences Po Paris. In 2018, she completed her PhD with honours at the University of Graz. The Gerda Henkel Foundation (Düsseldorf) as well as well as the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Berlin) supported the creation of the thesis, for which Doris Gruber received the Anniversary Prize of the Böhlau Verlag, Vienna and the Francis Stephen Award. Together with her colleagues from the Travelogues-project she received the Lee Dirks Award for Best Full Research Paper at the iConference 2020 in Borås (Sweden).
Since completing her doctorate, Doris Gruber held a scholarship at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel (spring 2022), was a senior researcher at the Paris Lodron University Salzburg (2020–2022), and part of the Travelogues-project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the research unit (2018–2021). Since 2020, she has also been teaching at the University of Vienna. During her undergraduate and graduate studies, she had various part-time jobs and internships, including at the House of History Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart, the Belvedere in Vienna and the Styrian State Archives in Graz.
Research Interests
Period: early modern era
Area: Holy Roman Empire, Habsburg Monarchy, Ottoman Empire
Topics: history of knowledge and science, media and book history, digital humanities, travel literature, text–image relations, machine learning, comets
Selected Publications
- With Arno Strohmeyer (ed.): On the Way to the (Un)known? The Ottoman Empire in Travelogues (c. 1450–1900), Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter 2022 (= Studies on Modern Orient 36)
- ‘Europeans Encounter the World in Travelogues: 1450–1900,’ in: European History Online (EGO), published by the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz 2022-03-08. URL: http://www.ieg-ego.eu/gruberd-2022-en, URN: urn:nbn:de:0159-2022011011
- Frühneuzeitlicher Wissenswandel. Kometenerscheinungen in der Druckpublizistik des Heiligen Römischen Reiches, Bremen: edition lumière 2020 (= Presse und Geschichte – Neue Beiträge 127), 860 pp.
- With Jan Rörden, Martin Krickl, Bernhard Haslhofer: ‘Identifying Historical Travelogues in Large Text Corpora Using Machine Learning,’ in: Anneli Sundqvist et al. (ed.): Sustainable Digital Communities.15th International Conference, iConference 2020. Boras, Sweden, March 23–26, 2020. Proceedings, Cham: Springer International Publishing 2020 (= Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS) 12051), 801–815
- ‘Text, Bild und Intermaterialität. Die frühneuzeitliche Kometenpublizistik im Heiligen Römischen Reich,’ in: Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte 21 (2019), 85–114
Further Publications
Books
Monographien
Editions and Collections
Herausgeberschaften und Sammelbände
Articles
Artikel
- Gruber Doris, Elisabeth Lobenwein, Arno Strohmeyer: Travelogues – Perceptions of the Other 1500–1876. A Computerized Analysis, in: Wallnig Thomas, Marion Romberg und Joëlle Weis (eds.): Das Achtzehnte Jahrhundert.Achtzehntes Jahrhundert digital: zentraleuropäische Perspektive. Digital Eighteenth Century: Central European Perspectives, Das Achtzehnte Jahrhundert und Österreich. Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des Achtzehnten Jahrhunderts, Wien/Köln/Weimar: Böhlau Verlag 2019, S. 129-131.
Other Publications
Sonstige
Publications
with Arno Strohmeyer (ed.): On the Way to the (Un)known? The Ottoman Empire in Travelogues (c. 1450–1900)
Frühneuzeitlicher Wissenswandel
(with J. Rörden, M. Krickl and B. Haslhofer), Identifying Historical Travelogues in Large Text Corpora Using Machine Learning, pp. 801–815
