Dr. Stefan Blohm
Research Interests
- poetic license (morphosyntactic aspects)
- aesthetic effects of grammatical deviation in poetic texts
- genre-specific language processing
- the psychology of poetic rhyme
Vita
Academic Education
| 04/2019 | Dr. phil., Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany |
| Since 2013 | PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| 06/2013 | M.A. General Linguistics/British Studies, JGU Mainz, Germany |
Professional Experience | |
| since 09/2021 | Excellence Initiative Fellow, Centre for Language Studies (CLS), Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands |
| since 08/2021 | Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| 02/2020–03/2020 | Visiting Scholar, Language and Brain Lab (Prof. A. Lahiri), University of Oxford, Oxford (UK) |
| 01/2020–02/2020 | Visiting Scholar, School of Humanities (Prof. N. Fabb), University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (UK) |
| 11/2017–08/2021 | Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| 2013–10/2017 | Scholarship at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
Publications
Articles (in peer-reviewed journals)
Blohm, S., Versace, S., Methner, S., Wagner, V., Schlesewsky, M., & Menninghaus, W. (2022). Reading Poetry and Prose: Eye Movements and Acoustic Evidence. Discourse Processes, 1-25. doi:10.1080/0163853X.2021.2015188.
Knoop, C. A., Blohm, S., Kraxenberger, M., & Menninghaus, W. (2021). How perfect are imperfect rhymes? Effects of phonological similarity and verse context on rhyme perception. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 15(3), 560–572. doi:10.1037/aca0000277
Blohm, S., Schlesewsky, M., Menninghaus, W., & Scharinger, M. (2021). Text type attribution modulates pre-stimulus alpha power in sentence reading. Brain and Language, 214, Article e104894. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104894
Tavano, A., Blohm, S., Knoop, C.A., Muralikrishnan, R., Scharinger, M., Wagner, V., et al. (2020). Neural harmonics reflect grammaticality. bioRxiv - The Preprint Server for Biology, Preprint. Retrieved from Neural harmonics reflect grammaticality | bioRxiv
Teng, X., Ma, M., Yang, J., Blohm, S., Cai, Q., & Tian, X. (2020). Constrained Structure of Ancient Chinese Poetry Facilitates Speech Content Grouping. Current Biology, 30(7), 1299–1305, Article e1297. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.01.059
Blohm, S., Wagner, V., Schlesewsky, M., & Menninghaus, W. (2018). Sentence judgments and the grammar of poetry: Linking linguistic structure and poetic effect. Poetics, 69, 41–56. doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2018.04.005
Blohm, S., Menninghaus, W., & Schlesewsky, M. (2017). Sentence-level effects of literary genre: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, Article 1887. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01887
Book Chapter
Blohm, S., Kraxenberger, M., Knoop, C. A., & Scharinger, M. (2021). Sound Shape and Sound Effects of Literary Texts. In D. Kuiken, & A. M. Jacobs (Eds.), Handbook of Empirical Literary Studies (pp. 7-38). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783110645958-002
Menninghaus, W., & Blohm, S. (2020). Empirical Aesthetics of Poetry. In M. Nadal & O. Vartanian (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics (pp. 1–20). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198824350.013.33
Monograph
Blohm, S. (2020). Literary Psycholinguistics and the Poem. (Doctoral dissertation, University of Mainz). https://publications.ub.uni-mainz.de/theses/frontdoor.php?source_opus=100003271
Projects
- Poetic Licenses
This project investigates the processing effects of linguistic deviations in poetry and, specifically, their contribution to aesthetic evaluation. Formal and semantic/conceptual detours from normal language use seem to typify poetry to such an extent ...