Prof. Dr. Maria Kraxenberger

Research

Maria Kraxenberger is junior professor of Interdisciplinary English Studies in the Department of English. Her research interests include aspects of sound and emotion in literary texts and contemporary reading and writing phenomena. She uses qualitative and quantitative methods as well as statistical analysis.

Biographic Information

Maria Kraxenberger studied Comparative Literature at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and the University of Seville. She received her doctorate from the Freie Universität Berlin with an empirical dissertation on “Sound-Emotion Associations in Poetry”. She has conducted research at Stanford University (2013–2014), the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (2014–2018), and the University of Basel (2019). From 2020 to 2025, she was a research assistant at the Institute for Literary Studies at the University of Stuttgart.