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General Information

Full Name Nathan Dykes
Languages English, German, Swedish, basic Dutch, French & Spanish

Education

  • Submitted 2025
    PhD: Computational Linguistics
    Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
    • A methodological framework for corpus-based discourse analysis
    • Supervisors: Stephanie Evert, Michaela Mahlberg
  • 2018
    Master of Arts: Linguistics
    Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
  • 2015
    Bachelor of Arts: Scandinavian Studies / Computational Linguistics
    Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Experience

  • 2024-present
    Research Associate
    Department Digital Humanities and Social Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
    • PI: Michaela Mahlberg
  • 2018-present
    Research Associate
    Chair of Computational Corpus Linguistics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
    • PI: Stephanie Evert
  • 2022-2023
    Research Associate
    Chair of English Linguistics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
    • PI: Peter Uhrig
  • 2022
    Contract lecturer: Corpus Linguistics
    Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
  • 2016-2020
    Contract lecturer: Swedish language
    Language Centre, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Co-organised Events

  • 2025
    Summer school: Data, Gender and Society
    FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
    • Week-long summer school with 30 participants. Responsible for communication with invited guests and participants; taught two workshop sessions.
  • 2025
    Mini-conference: The Times They Are A-Changin'
    International Conference of Digital Humanities, Lisbon
    • Contributed to peer review, session chairing and on-site coordination.
  • 2025
    Project symposium: Reading Concordances in the 21st Century
    FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
    • 80 participants, 10 invited speakers. Responsible for planning, coordination and pre- and post-event communication with speakers and participants.
  • 2024
    Digital Humanities Training Day
    FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
    • General planning and co-teaching one session.
  • 2022
    Workshop on Text Mining and Generation
    Co-located with the KI conference, Trier (online)
    • General planning and peer review.
  • 2019
    KONVENS 2019
    FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
    • General planning, recruiting student assistants, coordinating the review process.

Academic Service & Professional Development

  • 2025-present
    Elected member of the department board
    Department Digital Humanities and Social Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
    • Representative of non-professorial academic staff and PhD candidates. Also entails membership in the faculty-level academic staff council.
  • 2025
    Peer reviewer: Pragmatics and Society
  • 2024
    Peer reviewer: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
  • 2022, 2025
    Secondary examiner for MA theses in linguistics
    FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • 2025-present
    Mentee: DHd early career mentoring programme

Software and Resources

  • 2025
    FlexiConc
    • Python library for flexible concordance analysis workflows. Contributed to conceptual development through application in various research contexts
    • pypi.org/project/FlexiConc
  • 2025
    CADSBib