This faculty workshop explores how to launch a humanities lab with Fritz Breithaupt, director of the Experimental Humanities Lab at the University of Pennsylvania.
Breithaupt works on narrative, empathy, and aesthetics in both empirical ways and by means of close readings of the European literary traditions. Among his publications are: The Narrative Brain (2025), The Dark Sides of Empathy (2022) and One Time is never enough: How we Make Experiences (forthcoming 2026).
Fritz Breithaupt teaches German literature, cognitive science, and psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He works on narrative, empathy, and aesthetics in both empirical ways and by means of close readings of the European literary traditions. Among his publications are: The Narrative Brain (2025), The Dark Sides of Empathy (2022) and One Time is never enough: How we Make Experiences (forthcoming 2026). He directs the Experimental Humanities Lab.