Deutsch Intern
Institute of Classical Philology

Beine

Dr. Julia Jennifer Beine

Junior research group leader
Sustainability in Translation
Centre for Philology and Digitality
Emil-Hilb-Weg 23
97074 Würzburg
Room: 01.003
Phone: +49 931 31-83578
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8979-8706

Academic background
10.2018-09.2023 PhD in Latin Philology, Ruhr University Bochum
Thesis title: "The Double Game of the 'Servus Callidus'. A Poetological and Social Figure of Reflection on the European Stages of the Early Modern Period" [in German], supervisors: Professor Manuel Baumbach, Professor Linda Simonis
04.2015-06.2018 M.A. in Classical Philology (focus on Latin), Ruhr University Bochum
04.2015-06.2017 M.A. in General and Comparative Literature and History, Ruhr University Bochum
10.2011-03.2015 B.A. in History and Classical Philology (focus on Latin), Ruhr University Bochum
   
Academic activities
since 08.2025 Junior research group leader in the field of Sustainability in Translation within the Excellent Ideas II programme at the University of Würzburg
06.2025-08.2025 Research assistant at the Digital Humanities Centre and subject librarian for Classical Philology at the University Library Bochum (parental leave replacement)
11.2023-03.2024 Acting Professor for Digital Humanities at the Institute of Greek and Latin Languages and Literatures (Professor Frank Fischer), Free University of Berlin
05.2023-10.2023 Research assistant at the Digital Humanities Centre and subject librarian for Classical Philology, English/American Studies, and Law at the University Library Bochum (parental leave replacement)
03.2023-04.2023 Research assistant in the DFG project "Der 'Christus patiens' und die Poiesis der griechischen Cento-Dichtungen" at the Chair of Greek Philology, Ruhr University Bochum
12.2015-12.2019 Student assistant/research assistant (with Bachelor's/Master's degree) in Classical Philology at Ruhr University Bochum
04.2015-07.2015 Student assistant in Classical Philology at Ruhr University Bochum, tutor for introductory poetry class
   
Research stays
07.2024-01.2025 Research stay at the Department of Classical Philology, Medieval and Neolatin Studies at the University of Vienna and at Vienna Archives, funded by a DAAD postdoctoral fellowship
04.2024-06.2024 Research stay at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, funded by  the Shakespeare Fellowship of the German Shakespeare Society in cooperation with the Klassik Stiftung Weimar
08.2022-11.2022 Research stay at Huygens ING, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, Amsterdam, funded by Ruhr University Bochum (PR.INT programme) and Erasmus+, host: Professor Jan Bloemendal
   
Awards and prizes
02.2026 Best Poster Award for "A lot of Drama at a Glance: The 'Distant Reading Showcase', Ten Years Later." [in German] DHd2026. Abstract: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18702913; Poster: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.31113820; with Frank Fischer, Peer Trilcke, Mark Schwindt, Carsten Milling, Henny Sluyter-Gäthje, Ivan Pozdniakov, Ingo Börner, Daniil Skorinkin, Lisa Poggel, and Luca Giovannini
02.2024 YERUN Open Science Award 2023 for the project "DraCor": https://yerun.eu/2024/02/meet-the-winners-of-the-yerun-open-science-awards-2023/
12.2022 Rahtz Prize for TEI Ingenuity 2022 for dracor.org; with Frank Fischer, Peer Trilcke, Carsten Milling, Ingo Börner, Mathias Göbel, Henny Sluyter-Gäthje, Evgeniya Ustinova, Daniil Skorinkin, and Mark Schwindt: https://tei-c.org/news/2023/01/09/rahtz-prize-and-community-award-2022/
02.2016 Admission to the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
   
Other professional activities and internships
11.2021-06.2023 Supertitle operator at Schauspielhaus Bochum
01.2020-02.2020 Internship at Prinz Regent Theatre, Bochum
07.2016-08.2016 Internship at the Museum of Art and Cultural History, Dortmund

Publications

Research interests
Digital methods in philology and literary studies
European drama from antiquity to the modern period
Early modern and modern translations
Receptions of Greco-Roman literature from the 16th to the 21st century
 
Current research projects
DraCor (Roman Drama Corpus, Greek Drama Corpus, Neo-Latin Drama Corpus)
Receptions of Jakob Bidermann's"Cenodoxus" in the 20th century
Schlegel-Tieck-Shakespeare
Sustainability in Translation

Contributions to conferences, colloquia and workshops

  1. Beine, Julia Jennifer: Das Potential digitaler Methoden für die Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft. 21. Jahrestagung der DGAVL. Weltliteratur im Medienwandel, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, 15.–18.09.2026 (auf Einladung der AG Digitale Komparatistik, in Vorbereitung).

  2. Beine, Julia Jennifer: Tracing Schemers in Early Modern Receptions of Roman Comedy. Philtag 19, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, 04.02.2026. Folien: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18623607.

  3. Beine, Julia Jennifer: DraCor – Open Infrastructure for Drama Analysis. Philtag 19, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, 04.02.2026. Folien: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18623565.

  4. Beine, Julia Jennifer: Einführung in die digitale Netzwerkanalyse. Workshop, Graduiertenzentrum, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Flensburg, 15.01.2026.

  5. Beine, Julia Jennifer: Dataset of Roman Epics in Translation (REpT). Oberseminar, deutsche Philologie, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, 12.01.2026 (auf Einladung).

  6. Beine, Julia Jennifer: Dataset of Roman Epics in Translation (REpT). Kolloquium, Latinistik, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, 19.12.2025.

  7. Beine, Julia Jennifer: Approaches to Building a Digital Neo-Latin Drama Corpus (NeoLatDraCor). Digital Neo-Latin studies: ideas and perspectives, University of Aarhus & Centre for Danish Neo-Latin, Aarhus, 25.09.2025. Folien: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17201675.

  8. Beine, Julia Jennifer: RomDraCor and GreekDraCor. DraCor Summit. DraCor Corpora Conference, Freie Universität Berlin und Universität Potsdam, Berlin, 02.09.2025. Folien: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17037142.

  9. Beine, Julia Jennifer: NeoLatDraCor. DraCor Summit. DraCor Corpora Conference, Freie Universität Berlin und Universität Potsdam, Berlin, 02.09.2025. Folien: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17037084.

  10. Beine, Julia Jennifer; Skorinkin, Daniil: From Dramatic Text to DraCor TEI. DraCor Summit. DraCorOS Training Sessions, Freie Universität Berlin und Universität Potsdam, Berlin, 01.09.2025. Folien: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16994544.

  11. Beine, Julia Jennifer: Building a Digital Neo-Latin Drama Corpus (NeoLatDraCor): Project Insights. 19th Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence, 15.07.2025. Folien: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17007503.

  12. Beine, Julia Jennifer: Die verdammte Moderne. Joseph Gregors Bearbeitung von Jakob Bidermanns „Cenodoxus“ für das Burgtheater (1933/34). Eranos Vindobonensis, Universität Wien, Wien, 12.12.2024.

  13. Beine, Julia Jennifer: Gotcha! Catching Schemers in Roman Comedy and its Receptions. Days of Computational Approaches to Ancient Greek and Latin, Leuven, 28.11.2024. Folien: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14247508.

  14. Beine, Julia Jennifer; Fischer, Frank; Illmer, Viktor J.: Just the Type. Analysing Character Typology in Roman Comedy with RomDraCor. DH 2024, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, Washington, D. C., 09.08.2024, Folien: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13286286, Video: https://youtu.be/VmoEVHIRHIw.

  15. Beine, Julia Jennifer; Milling, Carsten; Trilcke, Peer: Exploring Programmable Corpora. CLS INFRA Training School. ExploreCor. Using Programmable Corpora in Computational Literary Studies, Wien, 11.06.2024. Folien: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15112022. Video: https://youtu.be/X18jmGm-KbU.

  16. Beine, Julia Jennifer; Giovannini, Luca; Skorinkin, Daniil; Sluyter-Gäthje, Henny: User Perspectives on Corpora in CLS Research. CLS INFRA Training School. ExploreCor. Using Programmable Corpora in Computational Literary Studies, Wien, 10.06.2024.

  17. Beine, Julia Jennifer: Jedermann digital. Digitale Methoden vermitteln. Tag der Philologie 2023, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, 07.06.2023.

  18. Beine, Julia Jennifer: XML, TEI und Digitale Editionen in der Lehre. Computer Café, Netzwerk Digital Humanities, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, 13.04.2023.

  19. Beine, Julia Jennifer: Die antiken „servi callidi“ bei Plautus und Terenz. BoGiZü-Kolloquium, Ruhr-Universität Bochum und Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Bochum, 17.12.2022.

  20. Beine, Julia Jennifer: How to Figure out a Schemer: Tracing Types of Roman Comedy and its Reception through Network Analysis with DraCor. Transnational Drama within and beyond Europe, 1450–1750, Huygens ING, Amsterdam, 02.09.2022.

  21. Beine, Julia Jennifer: Vom Jesuitenkolleg in die Puppenkiste: Die Adaption von Bidermans „Cenodoxus“ durch die Augsburger Puppenkiste. 18th Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, 02.08.2022.

  22. Elwert, Frederik; Beine, Julia Jennifer; Dipper, Stefanie; Freitag; Kornelia; Gerhartz, Sebastian; Schwandt, Silke: Podiumsdiskussion: „Digital Humanities in der Lehre“. Digital Humanities Day #4. Digital Humanities Center Bochum, Netzwerk Digital Humanities, Bochum, 11.07.2022.

  23. Beine, Julia Jennifer: Die Sklavenfiguren der „fabula palliata“ in ihren Rezeptionen und Funktionen auf den europäischen Bühnen der Frühen Neuzeit. Forschungskolloquium zur Klassischen Philologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, 11.01.2022.

  24. Beine, Julia Jennifer: Molières „L’Étourdi ou les contretemps“ – Wie Theater (nicht) funktioniert. Literaturwissenschaftliches Colloquium (Romanistik), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, 07.07.2021.

  25. Beine, Julia Jennifer: Challenging an Ancient Comic Tradition (Un-) Intentionally: Molière’s „L’Étourdi ou les contretemps“. 21st Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Drama: „Challenging Traditions and Traditions of Challenge in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama“, Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama, University of Oxford, University of London, Royal Holloway University of London, 29.06.2021.

  26. Beine, Julia Jennifer: Ludvig Holberg’s „Ulysses von Ithacia eller En tysk komedie“: A Rainbow of Transnational Drama. Transnational Drama. Huygens Institute, Amsterdam, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, 25.06.2021.

  27. Beine, Julia Jennifer: Der „servus callidus“ als poetologische und gesellschaftliche Reflexionsfigur auf den europäischen Bühnen der Frühen Neuzeit. Kolloquium zu Dissertations- und anderen Forschungsprojekten (Komparatistik), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, 20.02.2021.

  28. Beine, Julia Jennifer: „Something of great moment is about to happen“: Plautus’ „Rudens“ in translation and performance by the Ladies’ Literary Society of Washington University. Virtual symposium on Plautus and the women of Washington University, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, 06.02.2021 (Keynote), Video: https://wustl.app.box.com/s/ny31hj4x3ig6r44k5m06azuskm0gf11l (letzter Abruf am 07.08.2025).

  29. Beine, Julia Jennifer: Plautus Goes America: The Adaptation of „Rudens“ by the Ladies’ Literary Society of Washington University 1884. Titus Maccius Plautus: From Page to Stage, Masaryk University, Brno, 12.11.2019.

  30. Koch-Thiele, Andrea; Beine, Julia Jennifer; Brand, Lukas; Brumm, Leonie; Klauenberg, Lisa; Haberstroh, Susanne: Eröffnung: Gesprächsrunde. 3. Studentische Konferenz. Forschen und Lehren in studentischer Hand, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, 04.10.2018.

  31. Beine, Julia Jennifer: Plautus’ „Mostellaria“ – eine unheimlich komische Komödie. Das Unheimliche in der antiken Literatur: Narrativierung und ästhetische Erfahrung, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, 13.07.2018.

  32. Beine, Julia Jennifer: Die Re- bzw. Dekonstruktion des „Schlegel-Tieck-Shakespeare“ anhand der kritischen Edition des „Hamlet“. forschen@studium. Konferenz für studentische Forschung, Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg 09.06.2016.

 

Organisation of conferences and workshops

  1. Beine, Julia Jennifer; Siqueira, Diego; Bremer, Timo; Strotmann, Vivian; Hayn, Victoria (Organisator:innen): Digital Humanities Day #7. Digitale Ethik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, 15.–16.09.2025. https://dhday.rub.de/ (letzter Abruf am 30.10.2025).

  2. Beine, Julia Jennifer; Börner, Ingo; Fischer, Frank; Giovannini, Luca; Milling, Carsten; Rojas Castro, Antonio; Schwindt, Mark; Skorinkin, Daniil; Sluyter-Gäthje, Henny; Trilcke, Peer; Untner, Laura (Organisator:innen): DraCor Summit 2025, Freie Universität Berlin und Universität Potsdam, Berlin, 01.–05.09.2025. https://summit.dracor.org/ (letzter Abruf am 30.10.2025)

  3. Beine, Julia Jennifer; Bloemendal, Jan (Organisator:innen): Special Session Neo-Latin Drama I. Current Approaches to the Study of Neo-Latin Drama. 19th Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence, 15.07.2025.

  4. Beine, Julia Jennifer (Organisatorin und Trainerin): Hands-On: Text-Encoding in oXygen, DH Space, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, 02.07.2025.

  5. Beine, Julia Jennifer (Organisatorin und Trainerin): Einführung in XML, TEI und den oXygen XML Editor, DH Space, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, 24.06.2025.

  6. Beine, Julia Jennifer; Synovcová Borovičková, Jana; Jacková, Magdaléna (Organisatorinnen): 1st NeoLatDraCor Hackathon: From Text to TEI, Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 22.–23.05.2025. https://www.hiu.cas.cz/en/events/neolatdracor-hackathon-from-text-to-tei-1 (letzter Abruf am 30.10.2025).

  7. Beine, Julia Jennifer (Organisatorin): Workshop on (semi-)automatic encoding of dramatic texts in TEI, NeoLatDraCor, online, 28.02.2025.

  8. Beine, Julia Jennifer (Organisatorin und Trainerin): Introduction to XML, TEI and oXygen, NeoLatDraCor, online, 21.02.2025.

  9. Beine, Julia Jennifer; Börner, Ingo; Carloni, Massimiliano; Charvát, Vera Maria; Dijkstra, Anna; Ďurčo, Matje; Fischer, Frank; Giovannini, Luca; Illmer, Viktor J.; Milling, Carsten; Plank, Lukas; Resch, Stefan; Schöch, Christof; Schwindt, Mark; Skorinkin, Daniil; Sluyter-Gäthje, Henny; Trilcke, Peer; Woldrich, Anna (Trainer:innen): CLS INFRA Training School. ExploreCor. Using Programmable Corpora in Computational Literary Studies, Wien, 10.–12.06.2024. https://clsinfra.io/events/training-school/ (letzter Abruf am 30.10.2025).

  10. Beine, Julia Jennifer; Siqueira, Diego; Stekanov, Sergey; Elwert, Frederik (Organisator:innen): Digital Humanities Day #5. Nachhaltige DH in Forschung und Lehre, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, 20.–21.07.2023. https://dhday5.ub.rub.de/ (letzter Abruf am 30.10.2025).

04.2026-09.2026 "Digital Text Editing and Text Analysis in Literary Studies" [in German], Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Theology, University of Würzburg
04.2026-09.2026 "Petron" [in German], Faculty of Arts, University of Würzburg
04.2026-09.2026 "Roman Comedy" [in German], Faculty of Arts, University of Würzburg
10.2025-03.2026 "Text Analysis with Digital Methods and AI Tools" [in German], Faculty of Arts, University of Würzburg
10.2025-03.2026 "The Oedipus Myth from Antiquity to the Modern Era" [in German], Faculty of Arts, University of Würzburg
10.2024-03.2025 "Digital Humanities for Literary Scholars" [in German], Ruhr University Bochum
11.2023-03.2024 "Digital Methods in Literary Studies" [in German], Department of Philosophy and Humanities, Free University of Berlin
11.2023-03.2024 "The Oedipus Myth from Antiquity to the Modern Era" [in German], Department of Philosophy and Humanities, Free University of Berlin
11.2023-03.2024 "Phenomenology of the Digital Humanities" [in German], Department of Philosophy and Humanities, Free University of Berlin (with Professor Frank Fischer)
10.2022-03.2023 "Digital Methods in Philology: Everyman Digital" [in German], Faculty of Philology, Ruhr University Bochum
04.2022-09.2022 "Masters and Servants in Literature" [in German], Ruhr University Bochum (with Professor Linda Simonis)
10.2021-03.2022 "Digital Methods in Classical Philology: 'Dyskolos' Digital" [in German], Ruhr University Bochum
10.2018-03.2019 "Amphitryon" [in German], Ruhr University Bochum
04.2018-09.2018 "Communicating Antiquity in Academic and Cultural Journalism" [in German] and the accompanying practical course, Ruhr University Bochum
10.2017-03.2018 Independent co-teaching of the seminar "Oedipus" [in German], Ruhr University Bochum (with Dr Uwe Lindemann)
04.2015-07.2015 Tutor for the introductory poetry class (IÜG II), Ruhr University Bochum

Teaching projects

  1. Macropedius Drama Corpus

 

Supervised student work

  1. Lasker-Schüler, Else: IchundIch. Converted to TEI under the supervision of Julia Jennifer Beine and Frank Fischer. Converted to TEI by Greta Raczka and Mira Schwedes. In: Fischer, Frank; Trilcke, Peer (eds.): German Drama Corpus (GerDraCor). https://dracor.org/id/ger000767 (last accessed on 21/02/2026).

  2. Macropedius, Georgius: Rebelles. Converted to TEI under the supervision of Julia Jennifer Beine. Converted to TEI by Daina-Sophia Münch, Mareike Urbanek, Nina Straub, Timo Bremer, and Miriam Göbel. In: Beine, Julia Jennifer (Editor); Milling, Carsten; Börner, Ingo (Maintainer): Neo-Latin Drama Corpus (NeoLatDraCor).https://staging.dracor.org/id/neolat000005 (last accessed on 21/02/2026).

  3. Macropedius, Georgius: Hecastus. Converted to TEI under the supervision of Julia Jennifer Beine. Converted to TEI by Leon Fabian Gleser, Steffen Gutbier, Joshua Mährmann, Paula van Bonn, Rabea Klara Sülz, Carina Christensen, Kassandra Marie Stangel, and Christina Charalampidou. In: Beine, Julia Jennifer (Editor); Milling, Carsten; Börner, Ingo (Maintainer): Neo-Latin Drama Corpus (NeoLatDraCor).https://staging.dracor.org/id/neolat000001 (last accessed on 21/02/2026).

  4. Gennep, Jasper von: Homulus (The sinful loin is the dead). Spiritual drama. Converted from source by Madeleine Nadolny. In: Fischer, Frank; Trilcke, Peer (eds.): German Drama Corpus (GerDraCor). https://dracor.org/id/ger000647 (last accessed on 21.02.2026).

  5. Anonymous: Everyman. Converted to TEI under the supervision of Julia Jennifer Beine. Converted to TEI by Madeleine Justin Nadolny, Adara Anu Denise Oehlenberg, and Mahdi Zeinali. In: Luca Giovannini and the DraCor team (eds.): English Drama Corpus (EngDraCor). https://dracor.org/id/eng000435 (last accessed on 21.02.2026).

  6. Menander: Dyskolos. Converted to TEI under the supervision of Julia Jennifer Beine and Frank Fischer. Converted to TEI by Clara Freymuth, Nils Koenen, Laura Lungershausen, and Philipp Reichert. Assisted by Philipp Reichert, Anna Wheeler. In: Beine, Julia Jennifer; Fischer, Frank (eds.): Greek Drama Corpus (GreekDraCor). https://dracor.org/id/greek000040 (last accessed on 21/02/2026).

Supervision of B.A. and M.A. theses
I am happy to supervise theses that align with my research and teaching interests. If you are interested, please make an appointment via e-mail.

Supervision of doctoral projects
I am happy to supervise dissertations at the Graduate School of the Humanities in the classes "Digital Humanities" and "Philosophy, Languages, Arts", provided they fall within my areas of research. If you are interested, please make an appointment via e-mail.