Roberto Simanowski
Encyclopedia
Roberto Simanowski is a German scholar of literature and media studies in the USA and editor of dichtung-digital, a journal for contributions on digital aesthetics, which he founded in 1999.
Simanowski studied German literature and history at the University of Jena were he finished his PhD on mass-culture around 1800 with a grant by the German Studienstiftung
in 1996. He worked 1997 and 1998 in the research center Nationality of International Literatures at the University of Göttingen, conducted his research project Cyberspace and Literature with a stipend from the German Humboldt-Foundation at Harvard University
1998 until 2000, was visiting scholar at the University of Washington
in Seattle 2001 until 2002, and served as guest professor at the department of media studies at the University of Jena in 2002/2003. Since 2003 Simanowski teaches German literature and culture as well as digital aesthetics at Brown University
in Providence, Rhode Island.
Simanowski studied German literature and history at the University of Jena were he finished his PhD on mass-culture around 1800 with a grant by the German Studienstiftung
Studienstiftung
The German National Academic Foundation is Germany's largest organisation sponsoring students of outstanding academic achievements.It is non-political and non-denominational....
in 1996. He worked 1997 and 1998 in the research center Nationality of International Literatures at the University of Göttingen, conducted his research project Cyberspace and Literature with a stipend from the German Humboldt-Foundation at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
1998 until 2000, was visiting scholar at the University of Washington
University of Washington
University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
in Seattle 2001 until 2002, and served as guest professor at the department of media studies at the University of Jena in 2002/2003. Since 2003 Simanowski teaches German literature and culture as well as digital aesthetics at Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
in Providence, Rhode Island.
Book Publications
- Digitale Medien in der Erlebnisgesellschaft. Kultur - Kunst - Utopien [Digital Media in the Society of Event: Culture, Art, Utopia], Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2008.
- Transmedialität. Studien zu paraliterarischen Verfahren [Transmediality. On Para-literary Procedures] (Coeditor), Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag 2006.
- Interfictions. Vom Schreiben im Netz [Interfictions. Writing in the Net], Frankfurt am Main: Edition Suhrkamp 2002.
- Literatur.digital. Formen und Wege einer neuen Literatur [Literature Digital. Present and Future of a New Literature] (Editor), Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 2002.
- Digitale Literatur [Digital Literature] (Coeditor), Text & Kritik: Nr. 152/October 2001.
- Europa - ein Salon? Beiträge zur Internationalität des literarischen Salons [The Internationality of the Literary Salon: Contributions to an Historical Typology] (Coeditor, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 1999.
- Kulturelle Grenzziehungen im Spiegel der Literaturen: Nationalismus, Regionalismus, Fundamentalismus [Drawing Cultural Borders in the Mirror of Literature: Nationalism, Regionalism, Fundamentalism] (Coeditor), Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 1998.
- Die Verwaltung des Abenteuers'. Massenkultur um 1800 am Beispiel Christian August Vulpius [Administration of Adventure: Mass-Culture around 1800], Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1998.