Simon Ganahl

Simon Ganahl

Simon Ganahl researches and teaches as a literature and media scholar with a focus on digital humanities at the Universities of Vienna, Liechtenstein, and Vorarlberg. He heads the digital mapping project Campus Medius and edits the peer-reviewed, open-access journal Genealogy+Critique.

After studies in liberal arts and social sciences in Vienna, Hamburg, and Zurich, he obtained PhD degrees in communication science (2009) and in German philology (2012) at the University of Vienna.
In 2012/13 he was a visiting researcher in the School of Media Studies at The New School in New York and in 2016 a visiting lecturer in the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
His research work has received several awards and grants (e.g., APART from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Schrödinger from the Austrian Science Fund).

Selected publications

• Campus Medius: Digital Mapping in Cultural and Media Studies (transcript 2022)
• Karl Kraus-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung (coedited with Katharina Prager, Metzler 2022)
• Karl Kraus und Peter Altenberg: Eine Typologie moderner Haltungen (Konstanz University Press 2015)