Intern
Computational Humanities

Benjamin Henzel

M.A. Benjamin Henzel

Research Assistant / PhD Student
Computational Humanities
Universität Würzburg
Hubland Nord (ZPD)
Emil-Hilb-Weg 23
97074 Würzburg
Germany
Gebäude: ZPD
Raum: 02.008

Research Interests

My main research interest lies in the analysis of large corpora of audio recordings. For the past year, I have been working on compiling and analysing corpora of Western classical music, including different genres such as choir music, art songs, and more. An interdisciplinary approach to working with different media (e.g. music and text) plays an important role, particularly in the latter case.

Education

  • Since 2025: PhD student at the Graduate School of the Humanities ("Digital Humanities" class)
  • Since 2024: Research Assistant as part of the Computational Humanities (CH) group
  • 2021–2024: M. A. Digital Humanities and History, University of Würzburg
  • 2017–2021: B. A. History and Digital Humanities­, University of Würzburg

Teaching Activities

  • Seminar: Multimodale Analyse (Audio und Text) am Beispiel von Lyrikvertonungen, Summer 2025
  • Upcoming: Excercise for "Computational Humanities II", Summer 2026

Publications

2025[ to top ]
  • [1]
    B. Henzel, M. Müller, and C. Weiß, “Style Evolution in Western Choral Music: A Corpus-Based Strategy”, Computational Humanities Research, vol. 1, 2025, doi: 10.1017/chr.2025.10016.
  • [1]
    B. Henzel, M. Kröncke, L. Konle, S. Winko, F. Jannidis, and C. Weiß, “Poems Set to Music: A Multimodal Analysis of Schubert’s Song Cycle Winterreise”, in Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference (CHR), Luxembourg, 2025. doi: 10.63744/yQ1RSRGE825k.