Roberto Simanowski

Roberto Simanowski (born 1963) is a German scholar of literature and media studies 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 where 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. 2003 through 2010 Simanowski was professor of German literature and culture as well as digital aesthetics at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island Rhode Island and from 2010 through 2013 he was professor of media studies at the University of Basel University of Basel in Switzerland. Since 2014 he is professor for Digital Media Studies and Digital Humanities at English Department and School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong.

Book Publications

Digital Humanities and Digital Media. Conversations on Politics, Culture, Aesthetics, and Literacy. London: Open Humanities Press 2016. ISBN 978-1-78542-030-6
Facebook-Gesellschaft. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2016. ISBN 978-3-95757-057-4
Data Love. The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies. Columbia University Press 2016. ISBN 978-0-231-17726-9
Data Love, Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2014. ISBN 978-3-95757-023-9
Textmaschinen - Kinetische Poesie - Interaktive Installation. Zum Verstehen von Kunst in digitalen Medien, Bielefeld: Transcript 2012. ISBN 978-3-89942-976-3
Digital Art and Meaning. Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations, University of Minnesota Press 2011. ISBN 978-0-8166-6738-3
Reading Moving Letters: Digital Literature in Research and Teaching. A Handbook (Mitherausgeber), Bielefeld: Transcript 2010. ISBN 978-3-8376-1130-4
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.

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