Tianyi Kou

Biography

Tianyi (Titi) Kou is in her third year of the PhD program at MSU. She completed a BA and MA in German Studies in China, with a year of study at Universität Erfurt. Her research focuses primarily on the ways in which the sociological phenomenon of football influences national and regional identities in Germany. Before she joined the program, she worked as a translator for two publishing houses and also as a part-time interpreter for multiple international football clubs during their summer trips in Beijing, China. Since her arrival at MSU, she has begun to explore the possibilities of Digital Humanities methods for her research. In the past two summers, she has been to multiple DH summer schools and workshops and conferences in Canada, Germany, and Netherlands. Titi is a currently a Cultural Heritage Informatics Fellow, where she is applying DH methods to her own research project: Multiculturalism in the German Football World. In November she will present her work at The Digitalization of Research Conference at Universität Leipzig, Germany.