Mag. Dr. Dr. Simon Ganahl

Simon Ganahl researches and teaches as a literary and media scholar with a focus on digital humanities and experience design at the University of Vienna and the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences in Austria. He is the head of the publishing & design lab Campus Medius (campusmedius.net) and editor-in-chief of the scholarly journal Genealogy+Critique (genealogy-critique.net) in the Open Library of Humanities. After studying liberal arts and social sciences in Vienna, Hamburg, and Zurich, he obtained PhD degrees both in communication science and in German philology at the University of Vienna. During his studies he worked in journalism and in public relations. In his postdoctoral phase, he was a visiting researcher in the School of Media Studies at the New School in New York and a visiting lecturer in the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research work received several awards and grants, including the DOC and APART fellowships from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Schrödinger fellowship from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). His major book publications are: Campus Medius: Digital Mapping in Cultural and Media Studies (transcript 2022); Karl Kraus-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung (ed. with Katharina Prager, Metzler 2022); Karl Kraus und Peter Altenberg: Eine Typologie moderner Haltungen (Konstanz University Press 2015).