Researcher in our
related project LAGOOS
Contact
University of Innsbruck
Department for Classical Philology and Neo-Latin Studies
room 06I040 (6th floor)
Innrain 52a (Ágnes-Heller-Haus)
A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
email: lev.shadrin@uibk.ac.at
GitHub: https://github.com/levshadrin
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-9743-9981
Biography
CV
- 07/2016: BA in Art History at the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Moscow. Thesis on Byzantine influences in the medieval Russian iconography of Saint George.
- 06/2019: MA in Comparative History: Late Antique, Medieval and Renaissance Studies ath the Central European University, Budapest (with merit). Thesis: “O Wondrous and Strange Mystery”: a codicological investigation and textual analysis of Saint George’s vision (BHG 691U-V). Permalink: https://libsearch.ceu.edu/permalink/43CEU_INST/1jp6h5j/alma991003607704808861
- 07/2023: MA in Fundamental and Applied Linguistics, “Digital Humanities” specialisation at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow (online defense). Thesis on distant reading analysis of curricula for Digital Humanities MA degrees.
- 09/2023 – present: PhD in Literature and Cultural Studies, “Classical Philology – Greek” specialisation at the University of Innsbruck. Doctoral dissertation on the use of Greek in K. B. Hase’s ‘Secret Diary’ with a focus on an integrated close and distant reading approach to linguistic analysis.
Research project involvement
- 09/2019 – 09/2020: research assistant at the Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams (DBBE) project at the Ghent University. Reponsible for database entries revision, source material transcription, digital repositories collation, and incorporating user feedback and scholarly findings into the database. URL: https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/
- 06/2023 – present: research assistant at the LAGOOS project (A Life in Ancient Greek: The Secret Diary of Karl Benedikt Hase (1780–1864); FWF Grant DOI 10.55776/Y1519) at the University of Innsbruck. Responsible for implementing a text extraction and transcription revision pipeline using Transkribus HTR framework and Python, correcting source text of the diary, training a high-quality HTR model for Hase’s Greek hand (CER = 4.56%), developing an internal API Python library to retrieve and edit PAGE XML transcriptions, developing a hybrid HTR-LLM post-correction application for the project. URL: https://lagoos.org/
Research Interests
- Historical linguistics
- New Ancient Greek literature
- Greek paleography
- Early Modern philhellenism
- Digital Humanities
- Distant reading
- Handwritten Text Recognition
Publications
- Barton, William M., Lev Shadrin, and Mariia Hrynevych. “Learning Modern Greek in Nineteenth-Century Paris: K. B. Hase’s Student Notes on Amiras’ Translation of Costin, History of the Kingdoms and Princes of Moldavia.” Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 50, no. 1 (2026): 69–88. https://doi.org/10.1017/byz.2024.29.
- Shadrin, Lev. “Lexical Journeys: A Distant Reading Approach to Language Variation in Karl Benedikt Hase’s 1837 Greek Diary.” Digital Humanities Quarterly, forthcoming.
Talks
- Shadrin, Lev “Tracing Byzantine Influence in the Private Greek Diary of Karl Benedikt Hase.” NEW ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE: CONTEXTS, AUDIENCES, LEGACIES, KU Leuven, Belgium, 8th July, 2026.
- Shadrin, Lev. “Lexical journeys: Digital approaches to Karl Benedikt Hase’s 1837 Greek Diary.” Laetae Segetes IX International PhD and Young Researchers Conference, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 20th November, 2025. https://classics.phil.muni.cz/en/research/conf erences/laetae-segetes-ix/programme
- Shadrin, Lev. “‘ἔγραψα ταῦτα’: Личный дневник эллиниста XIX века Карла Бенедикта Хазе [‘ἔγραψα ταῦτα’: The Private Diary of the Nineteenth-Century Hellenist Karl Benedikt Hase].” Antibarbari Colloquia lecture series, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 9th October, 2025 (online). https://vkvideo.ru/video-211800158_456239481
- Shadrin, Lev, “Identifying Code-Switching Patterns in Hase’s Private Notes.” International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS), Université Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, France, 14–19th July 2025.
- Shadrin, Lev. “‘Στεναγμοὶ τῶν ναυτῶν: Traveling from France to Greece in the 1830s,” Hermes: Platform for early modern Hellenism (April 1, 2025). https://doi.org/10.17613/9e6ap-x6r42.
- Shadrin, Lev, “Identifying Recurring Phrases in Karl Benedikt Hase’s ‘Secret Diary’.” The Nineteenth Century Today: Interdisciplinary, International, Intertemporal. Annual Conference of the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCSA), University of Durham, UK, 10–12th July 2024.
- Shadrin, Lev, “The Use of Greek in Karl Benedikt Hase’s ‘Secret Diary’.” Telling Byzantine History: Current Trends and New Directions. International Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Graduate Conference, Vienna, 24–25th June 2024.
- Shadrin, Lev, “Transcription Correction: Exploring Recognition Errors and Discussing Alternative Approaches.” Transkribus User Conference (TUC) 2024, Innsbruck, 15–16th February 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu0zrIayKZE&list=PL7UbQtd4qlhJov-NtX7EJP9JtIeIrZ5a1&index=6
- Barton, William M. and Shadrin, Lev, “Digital Approaches towards the Edition of Karl Benedikt Hase’s ‘Secret’ Diary.” The Material Heritage of Ancient Greece in Early Modern Europe: New Approaches and Perspectives (GrECI Conference), Athens, 1–2nd February 2024.
- Shadrin, Lev. “Transkribus and its Concrete Possibilities: The Manuscripts of the Academia Taxiana,” Innsbruck, 20th November 2023.
Academic outreach activities
- Shadrin, Lev. “Digital Tools in Classical Studies.” Guest lecture at Tartu University (online), 12th and 19th May, 2026.
- Shadrin, Lev. “Digitising History: reading Greek and Latin texts with AI.” Certamen Latinum et Graecum Tirolense, University of Innsbruck, 23rd February, 2026.
- Shadrin, Lev. “Digital Humanities: An Overview of the Field. Discourse, History, Projects.” Guest lecture as part of the Wissenschaftlicher Diskurs seminar taught by Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Martin Korenjak, University of Innsbruck, 5th May, 2025.
- Shadrin, Lev. “OCR/HTR in DH. Using computer vision to process historical documents.” Guest lecture at Tartu University (online), 1st and 22nd April, 2025.
- Shadrin, Lev. “Digitising History: reading Greek and Latin texts with AI.” Certamen Latinum et Graecum Tirolense, University of Innsbruck, 18th February, 2025.
- Shadrin, Lev. “OCR/HTR in research.” Guest lecture as part of the Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten seminar taught by PD Dr. Isabella Walser-Bügler, University of Innsbruck, 25th November, 2024.
Lev Shadrin’s Contributions and Activities
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On the 8-10 July, the conference New Ancient Greek Literature: Contexts, Audiences, Legacies took place at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Organised by the Hellas Belgicaproject, the conference brought together perspectives on the long history of New Ancient Greek as a dynamic cultural phenomenon from scholars working across Europe, the UK and United States. The Innsbruck…
